The Biggest Surprise at the Destination
The preparation of a trip, can be something pleasant or something unpleasant, everything depends on our experience and organization, and the result will be seen at the destination, at the moment we open the baggage and we realize we have forgotten something.
Asking to family and friends, I found out that frequently, objects, medicine, and other important elements are forgotten in travels preparation; even, with a high frequency, the most suitable baggage for the destination has not been included. These situations are translated into having to buy clothes, medicine, and other things; spending travel time in not programmed situations, because is required go to buy things that has been forgotten. This situations could be risky, because in some countries is not possible to find a specialized medication.
Based on this problematic, I decided to create an application that help out travelers in a trip preparation, offering the possibility of trip creation, by associating varied information: trip details, destination, trip date, medicine, maps and alarms.
Trip associated information: trip origin, trip destination, trip date.
Objective to achieve with the provided information:
Trip origin: lets us remember the required documentation to depart from the city.
Trip destination: lets us remember, according to date and year season, the type of clothes to wear, as well as the documentation and required vaccines.
Medicine: the app has a functionality that allow us organize the schedule for medications: store data, generate alarms, periods of time when it must be taken, etc. This functionality works as support for a person’s medical record. We can look at the historical record of each medicine consumed and its period of time during which it was consumed.
The app lets users storing maps that he/she identifies as important and associated with the final destination.
In order of develop this application and make it a possible reality, several stages were followed:
- Ideation:
- Brain storm: his activity was realized with familiars and friends, in order of identify different experiences that has been lived in travels, and how often they forget to include important things for their travels.
- Point of view.
- Inspiration board.
- Visual inspiration: Different products with similar specifications were evaluated to identify how each one provides services and solutions to its customers. Several characteristics were evaluated for each application: Operating Systems Supported, Functionalities and application type, and most relevant characteristics.
2. Needfinding: Three people were evaluated to identify how they prepare a trip, if has a routine, or prepares luggage at the last minute, or has a list.
3. Two storyboards were created:
4. First Prototype: A prototype in paper was created.
5. A programming and development schedule was created:
6. Test Application: This stage was realized with two(2) users, all observations were recorded and pictures were taken. As result of this stage different points were reevaluated, modified or added in the final product.
7. A/B Testing: The medication functionality was redesigned, and it was evaluated through an ‘A/B Testing’. The evaluation was over a button that was added to create an alarm and to add a new medication, this button was placed in a different position, and with different color and form.
8. Final Prototype Screens:
