MY ROLE
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As part of the Visual Elements of User Interface Design course, offered by California Institute of the Arts, I worked on several assignments that were essentially development stages towards a final project: a sketch for a smartphone app that focused on one simple task: an app that could find a specific food within a given area.

I should be able to answer the following questions about my product:

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• What is it?

• Who is it for?

• Where will it live?

 

While I was limited by the type of app I could develop, the app could be tailored to a specific audience, which I defined earlier in the process. The idea is that I would be creating a customized interface with a unique look and feel for a very specific audience. An example given by the course briefing was "an app for students who need Red Bull cupcakes for late-night study breaks". My choice was to develop an app that could find ice cream shops for people that were recovering from recent dental surgeries.

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My app should be simple, so that its main functionality and the user activity was contained within one or two screens. It also didn't have to be realistic; the idea could be more speculative, regardless if it would work or not. What mattered first and foremost was the interface.

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The following document is the final assignment submitted by me and contains the look and feel of the app, with the description and tagline for my idea, a mood board with a color palette and some tests on type, a sample pattern library for the app and a sketch of the static interface for two screens.