Concept Development 

I was inspired by productivity apps, but I quickly discovered that the market was already saturated with thousands of these kinds of apps on the iOS app store. Following the design thinking process helped in creating the concept of this app. I first had to ideate, ‘Ideation is the process where you generate ideas and solutions through sessions such as Sketching, Prototyping, Brainstorming...and a wealth of other ideation techniques’ (Dam & Siang,2020). I knew I wanted to create a productivity app and used brainstorming as a method of generating ideas. I knew that the app was going to be targeted at parents with young children and as stated in the project overview, there is a high percentage of children who have interacted with digital devices by the of age of 11.

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By using the lean startup methodology, I was able to quickly begin sketching up concepts for the app and receive peer feedback as I continued to develop my concept app.

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I sketched out some initial designs for the basic functionalities of TASKiFIED. As seen in Figure 9, I gave a basic overview of the app functionalities and some of the potential features. I already decided that I wanted to have 2 versions of the app within the same app. The first version is the admin or parents’ part of the app, where they can view the members of the family, completed tasks, and tasks that still need completing.

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