WEEK 4 JOURNEY

 

App Prototype Development:  The Busina App


A successful app launch begins with a well-designed prototype. A prototype is essentially a draft version of the app that showcases its basic features, design, and overall user experience. The purpose of a prototype is to test and validate the concept before investing time and resources into full-scale development and to ensure that the final design meets all the technical requirements and is easily used. The team focuses in developing the prototype of our project app Busina App.


These are some reasons why the team should consider having a mobile app prototype before having the full-fledged thing.

1. The prototype provides an outsider’s perspective and a new point of view

When designing new app products, it’s important to get feedback from your team members, so it’s helpful to prototype your ideas and share them with your team. A prototype can help you work through new or revised ideas and make the design process more efficient.

2. Creates room for experimentation and finding the best solution within constraints

Prototyping is a great way to test your designs and brainstorm new ideas. It can help you come up with solutions to the toughest problems in app design and can be valuable for validating assumptions and exploring new solutions, especially when you’re working with other designers on complex problems. Not everyone uses prototyping as a part of their design process, but it can be immensely valuable in many situations.

3. Prototype – a subject for target audience research

Your app should keep pace with technological trends to appeal to the right audience, but how do you determine what those are? User feedback can help you refine your prototype to reflect users’ needs and preferences.

4. A prototype helps to estimate the cost of app development 

Building mobile app software from scratch using codes is high or expensive. Thus, using a prototype is a must to estimate the overall cost and investment without going for the complete development process.

5. Involves development and investment

Gaining investors’ trust can be tough, but a prototype app design can help. Investors will better understand the utility of your app and be more likely to invest. Presenting your ideas in user experience lets you communicate faster and better, and it will also simplify production work later on when it comes to development.

reference:  https://www.andromo.com/blog/how-to-prototype-mobile-apps/


Image1. Brainstorming 

Image2. Prototype

In conclusion, Prototyping can be quick and effective way of bringing the owner or client's ideas to life. Prototypes are exciting, innovative and interesting. Prototype fidelity will help guide the feedback. The more detailed and polished something is, the more detailed the feedback will be. Prototypes allows for early validation of the concept and provides valuable insights that can be used to improve the final product. The Busina app prototype was designed with a focus on simplicity, functionality, and user feedback, and was developed using the right tools to ensure success. 


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