DWW - Part 3: Week 3

How we explored the subject

Subject : How to improve traveling experience for families with a mobile app?

First, each member of the team did a mindmap according to the subject. It was helpful to have ideas on it.

Here are the links to our mindmaps:

Jennyfer LAVOYE: Mind map

Ke TANG: Mind map

Aude LACOMBE: Mind map

Clement GUIRAUD: Mind map

Here is the link to our glitch:

Glitch

In the glitch, we gathered together our data on the subject, through our mindmaps.

Then, we discussed with the team about 2 applications we would like to implement.

For each idea, we answered simple questions such as What, Which service, Why, For Who... to guide us in our application, to know what we are really going to target.

Our application would be an application to create a day planner for families on vacation. The activities and places to discover are listed according to each place. Parents will be able to integrate them directly into their planning. The days can be organized one by one.

The children will be able to see the schedule without being able to modify it, they will be able to select the things they want to do and propose them to their parents.

The context of the creation

It's an application to plan family activities, the time when things are going to be done in a day.

Every member of the family can take part into the planning if the holidays.

Children generally don't have a say in what activities they go on vacation. This application will then allow them to recommend places to their parents based on the things they like to do and would like to discover. Parents will then be able to take their children's wishes into consideration and venture into new things!

The first are the parents who have children since they are the main users of the application, they are the ones who plan the days and decide whether or not something can be done, whether or not they are going to do this activity according to their budget or the age of their children, whether it is suitable or not.

The second target are children who are old enough to own a phone and understand the application, i.e. children between 12 and 18 years old. There will be possible interaction between the parents and the child. The child will be able to recommend places to their parents.

Moodboard of the app

Yuggler, Description of the mobile app.
Yuggler is an app for parents, grandparents & caregivers to find kids activities, things to do for families and fun places near your current location or travel destinations.
It is linked to our project because you can find activities to do for families but you can't plan the days and take into consideration what the children might say.

Jorte Calendrier, Link of the website of the mobile app
it is an app which permits to plan activities while being fun and interactive because it is customizable. It is linked to our project because it allows to create a planning for holidays but also because since it is very interactive it can be used by families. However what differentiates it, is the fact that it is not specially made for the use of all the family and for children.

Familiy wall, Link of the website of the mobile app
It is an application made to create organization in the families with a shared planning , to do list… However contrary to our project it is much more made for the daily life than for holidays.

The mockup of our mobile app

Here is the link to our Mockup

This is the menu of the application, once that every member of the family is connected, you can choose your profile.

First scenario : a parent is using the application

The parent can:

- Create his planner
- Search activities
- See his children's list of activities

Second scenario : a child is using the application

The child can:

- See the planner of his parents
- Search activities
- Create a list with his favorite activities

Here are the links to our User Tests:

User test 1
User test 2
User test 3

We carried out 3 different tests with 3 people, 1 mother, 1 young adult and a teenager.

First, we asked what they thought of the application in general: its design, if the application is suitable for children between 12 and 18 years old, if it is easy to understand and use.

In a second step, people were free to give us their overall opinion on the application, we were able to change a few things.

The app is made to be used by families. There are two type of profile on the app. The parents profile and the kids one. The parents connect with their email adress. Then they get to chose their destination, and then they are able to search for activities to do and to add them to a planner where they can also add other informations.

The parents can also see which activities are recommended by their children since the children can alco connect to their profile with a code given by their parents. The chilldren can, with their profile, enter their preferences and then be recommended activities they can recommend to their parents. They can also see their parents planner but they are not able to modify it.

Since our project is a mobile app, it must be coded in C or in Swift for the appstore. Here is the link of a page explaining how to choose betxeen both languages

Link

To be comptaptible with Android our application must also be coded in Java or in Kotlin. Here is an article explaining the difference between these two languages.

Link

Geolocalisation must be implemented to the app to know where are the families nearby. Here is the link of a web page that explain how to implement geolocalisation in an Android application.

Link

Possibility to use the app without connection to see the planner

The developped app must be easy to use and to understand as seen in the mockup since it will be used by young children in age of having a phone

We would like the mood of our application to be very familiy-friendly. Thus we would like to use very warm coulours such as orange for instance

For the application, here are some of the elements we used:

- Color orange : #E87433
- Color grey : #F2F0F0
- Fonts used : Abel, Roboto
- Icons : we used pictures in png found on the web

Parent-adolescent conflict and choice of conflict resolution strategy : Familial holiday planning, Journal: International Journal of Conflict Management, 2016, Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 88-115. Link of the website
This article is linked to our project because it highlights the necessity of listening to adolescents to create planning for instance in order to avoid conflicts, this is a solution proposed by or project.

Vacances populaires, Pierre Perrier chapter 3. Link of the website
This chapter is related to our topic because it highlights how hard planning holidays can be. It underlines that for some families, going on holidays happens hardly once a year and for that reason everyone want it to be perfect and to please to everyone in the family. It also shows us that at some point planning holidays can cause stress because there is a fear of failing this unique moment of the year.

Dimensions and requirements of collaborative planning in business transformation projects. Journal: Journal of Modern Project Management. May-Aug2019, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p22-35. 13p Link of the website
This article is related to our topic because it explains how to do a collaborative planning. Even if it explains it for business The requirements and the strategy are quite the same as a collaborative planning made for families.

The gap between planning and doing | Kirsten Rohde | TEDxErasmusUniversity Link of the video
This video tells us about how we always plan to do things that we end up not doing and what we are acting that way. It is related to our project since our goal is to make families being able to plan things and to actually do it during their holidays.

Link to our landing page