Project 2A - Proposal

In terms of interface I really only have one inspiration for colours and buttons, that being the playbook music app. So based on that and other things from my head here is my proposal for project 2.

Based on my experiences with the power metering app, I want to make this app incredibly easy to use, and i even want it to be fun to use. Something someone will go onto to enjoy.

Here are the 2 pages that I handed in detailing my proposed app. I do not have a name for it yet but I am sure I will develop a name as time, and the project progress.

The app I am proposing is a social, power consumption, competition based app. 

These 2 diagrams detail the main app screen and the friends screen

These 2 diagrams detail the challenges screen and the usage screen

Here is my written hand-in to go along with the pages:

For my second Introduction to Interaction Design project I plan to create an interactive, cross-platform application that encourages competitive energy saving between users and friends, and that as a whole the application is aimed at making the users consume as little excess energy as possible.

My intention is to make the application iOS and Android compatible, Web Based, and also to make it run on other mobile devices (Nokia, Blackberry) as well. Running on these operating environments would mean my target user base would be ages from mid-late teen years through to the pre senior years, possibly 65 and below. This is dependent on how familiar the age group is with the platform they are using. I aim to make the application very simple to use and I would like it to be able to be operated without extensive instruction sheets or pages. For the detailed paper prototype I will focus on the iOS application.

The application is going to be very visually based and will depict usage in picture forms. It will be interesting to look at and be designed to be used by the general public, as opposed to stereotypical ‘nerds’ who like plain bar graphs and boring charts. (Although the app will cater for those people as well)

With this application you will add other users (friends) and with the home appliance data gathered by the app, you can then compete for the lowest per household/per person/per appliance energy usage over a user-defined time period. The user can choose from a series of application set challenges or set a challenge themselves for a friend/group of friends to compete in.