msquared88 / front-end

Front-End

Proposal

What problem does your app solve?

Solves the problem of having to keep track and organize events.

Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem?

App tracks guest count, theme, budget, shopping list, photos. Easily accessible and usable for any age.

What is the mission statement?

Keep track of all your party planning details! Event planners can create new events where they can input and organize their information.

Features

What features are required for your minimum viable product?

Number of guests, theme, date, budget, adding photos, planning entertainment, creating a shopping list, ability to mark items as purchased and have it affect the budget, adding new categories to track.

What features may you wish to put in a future release?

Landing page, sign up/sign in, being able to share on facebook

What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users?

Evite/Eventbrite

Frameworks - Libraries

What 3rd party frameworks/libraries are you considering using?

Axios Formik/Yup Semantic UI Redux/React-Redux/Redux-Thunk/Redux-Logger React Router Sass (possibly Facebook API)

Do APIs require you to contact its maintainer to gain access?

no

Are you required to pay to use the API?

no

Have you considered using Apple Frameworks? (MapKit, Healthkit, ARKit?)

no

For Data Scientists

Describe the Established data source with at least rough data able to be provided on day 1.

You can gather information about the data set you’ll be working with from the project description. Be sure to collaborate with your PM, and your Backend Architect to chat about the resources you have.

Write a description for what the DS problem is (what uncertainty/prediction are we trying to do here? Sentiment analysis? Why is this a useful solution to a problem?)

A target (e.g. JSON format or such) for output that DS students can deliver to web/other students for them to ingest and use in the app

Target Audience

Who is your target audience? Be specific.

Parents, Millennials, People who are the main planners of their friends, Any event planners

What feedback have you gotten from potential users?

For bigger events, budgeting is important, poor existing tools

Have you validated the problem and your solution with your target audience? How?

Card-sorting surveys (5 people), User interviews (2), proto-personas/personas (2), UX Workshop with 2 other UX Designers Research

Research thoroughly before writing a single line of code. Solidify the features of your app conceptually before implementation. Spend the weekend researching so you can hit the ground running on Monday.

Prototype Key Feature(s)

This is the “bread and butter” of the app, this is what makes your app yours. Calculate how long it takes to implement these features and triple the time estimated. That way you’ll have plenty of time to finish. It is preferred to drop features and spend more time working on your MVP features if needed.

Our key features are number of guests, theme, date, budget, adding photos, planning entertainment, creating a shopping list, ability to mark items as purchased and have it affect the budget, adding new categories to track. We estimate that it will take 4 days to complete all the features.