1 — Project Goal
Create a mobile app for people attending SQL Saturday Baton Rouge, LA, an annual developer-focused conference. Allow them to bookmark sessions and browse by session metadata.
2 — Target Audience
Developers, database administrators, and other information technology workers such as designers, project managers, and business analysts.
3 — Research & Key Challenges
Research was conducted using past years' attendees' feedback surveys. Features were generated from insights gathered from the surveys. The app is designed to be easily developed using Xamarin and many pre-defined layouts, enabling us to produce the app more quickly for both iOS and Android.
4 — Initial Design Concepts & Wireframes
The initial design concepts were sketched on the fly in one of the initial planning meetings for the event. Using an ad hoc competitive analysis of other event guide apps, the event advisory board generated the app parameters.
5 — Usability Testing
Usability was taken from the limitations and considerations discussed by the executive team. These items were influenced by the timeline and technical constraints of the project.
6 — Conclusion
As dark modes are all the rage among developer IDEs, I designed the app with dark mode only. For the next year I will add a light mode to the app. The annual event is including more management types, so the additional choice will be timely.
