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Week 8: Step Flow

Updated: Mar 2, 2022

This week started in presenting in call our "product scenario" from last week.

Then, we got to work!

WE HAD TO FOCUS!


To be honest, we thought it is going to be an easy mission for us because we felt like we know exactly what we want the app to do and why.

Of course, we were wrong.


This week was the hardest week we had so far.


We were asked to define only 4 main actions that our app will do.

For each action, we had to define when it's going to happen (what is the trigger, what time of a day and more), what content exactly is going to be on each of the actions, and what our app will have to do in the background for it to happen.

After thinking and debating we decided on 4 very simple specific tasks:

- Pictures from the past notifications that will be sent in the midday while scrolling thru social

media (break from work)

- Songs Suggestions notifications will be sent on the way home.

- "I Think about you" button and notification will be available all day at the app itself and will be sent immediately after the other will press the button.

- Do-not interrupt notification - suggest the couple put their phone on silent or aeroplane mode when they are at home together.


The second task we were asked to do is mapping our competitors on a 2-axis system.

We researched existing apps that aim to help couples and identified their main features and wrote it all on a whiteboard.

Then we started looking for common patterns.

First, we found out that most of the apps are trying to make the connection of the couple thure the app itself through online games or chat for example, and not creating face to face communication.

Secondly, most of the apps suggested the couple add content manually to the app (together or separately) in different ways like "couple photo albums", and couple diary.

The third main difference was between synchronic and asynchronic apps. In some, the couple needed to use the app at the same time, in others, each individual could use the app in his own time.



Those patterns helped us decide on an affective 2-axis graph to present all the information on. Y-axis - Peripheral Vs Central. X-axis - Synchronic VS Asynchronous.



After placing all the existing apps and our app on the graph we could definitely see that our app is unique and original.


We are very excited for the next week when we will meet for "speed dating" amazing mentors from the industry that will give us comments on the idea and help us fucose more in the right way.




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