Creating a Mobile Phone App

Lesson 9

• By the end of this lesson you will: • Have evaluated and provided constructive feedback

with recommendations for improvements on at least one other persons app

• Applied the feedback to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design features

Lesson 9 Objectives:

What Makes a Good Phone App?

Its easy to use

Its free

It has good graphics and

images

Its useful

Its challengin

gIts fun

The information is always up

to date

Its colourful and eye-catching

Its quick

What Makes A Good App – design principles

Peer Assessment• Working in pairs, provide an introduction of your app

to your friend. Now ask your friend to review your app, providing feedback on the ‘App Prototype Peer Assessment’ Form (located in Moodle).

• Identify 2 features you like about the app• Identify 1 thing that you think could help to the app

• Now swap and repeat the process.Once you have finished, spend the rest of the lesson improving your app.

• By the end of this lesson you will: Have evaluated and provided constructive feedback

with recommendations for improvements on at least one other persons app

Applied the feedback to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design features

Have we met today’s objectives?

Recap - Creating a User Name and password• Follow the instructions on ‘Preparation sign

information’ accessible on Moodle from:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR PASSWORD AND DON’T LOOSE IT – I cannot reset your password in AppShed

so you will loose your work!!

• Although you can use any image type you like, the best ones for use on your app will be PNG and JPEG files.

• Find an image you want to save Right click and

select ‘save image as’ Save as JPEG or PNG Image

Recap – Uploading Images

Peer Assessment

Peer Assessment forms located in Moodle – Lesson 8 ‘App Prototype Peer Assessment’