Design Proposal Mobile Bookshop Application

Question: Discuss about the Design Proposal for Mobile Bookshop Application. Answer: Introduction: The local bookstore aims at automating their business and make their presence felt online through the development of a mobile application. Through the developed mobile application, the customer will be able to browse through different books, search for particular books through the search bar and select books for purchase. In the current project, the pilot application is developed that will allow the customer to browse and search for the book. Objective, Outputs, and Target The various objective for the pilot application are: To develop an Android base mobile application for the bookstore; To design an easy and effective user interface for the application; To allow maximum of 250 customers to access to application simultaneously; To design easy navigation and browsing feature; To reduce the time in searching for a particular book in the physical store; To test and evaluate the developed interface and functionality of the pilot application at the physical store; The expected output for the pilot application are: The developed application will be able to reduce the processing time for serving the customer at the physical store; The customer will easily browse and search for all the books through the mobile application with less time; The online application will increase the sales and attract new customer to the store; The developed application will be able to provide the customer with more information about different books within less time; The target for the pilot application are: The targeted customer for the developed application is the local bookstore shopkeeper and employees, and the customer of the bookstore. Local Bookstore Shopkeeper and Employees: The bookstore shopkeeper will be able to select the various books and information that needed to be included in the application. The shopkeeper will be able to modify, delete and enter new books and information. Customer: The customer is the local community who purchases books from the bookstore. Through the developed application, the customer will be able to browse and purchase books online; Success Criteria Customer Experience: The significant success criteria for the developed mobile application for the bookstore. The designed interface for the mobile application will allow the customer to easily browse through the different books available in the bookstore (Qi et al., 2014). Reducing the time searching for a particular book will enhance the customer usability and experience of the customer in purchasing books. Functionality: The designed interface of the mobile application will allow the verified customer to log in to the system (Karim, Shukur, 2016). Moreover, the designed search bar in the application will allow the customers in searching for books with the book name or author name. In addition to that, the navigation bar in the application will provide the customer with an easy interface to browse through the different books and saving time. Information and book catalog: The physical bookstore consists of three stories. Searching through all the books and collecting the information of the books takes a lot of time. Including the significant information about the books in the application will allow the customer in browsing through the books information more efficiently and quickly from one place (Landry, McDaniel, 2015). Project Design Proposal The design of the interface of the bookstore application is aimed to provide the customer with an effective and easy interface for browsing books and searching for particular books. The significant aims of the interface design are: Enhanced efficiency: The developed system is aimed at connecting a maximum of 250 customers at a time to access the database and application. The developed system and interface are aimed at providing the customer to easy browse through all the books present in the bookstore with ease. Effective navigation: The design of the application will include a navigation panel that will allow the customer to select and move between different books, easily log into the application (Verzuh, 2015). In addition to that, the navigating screen will include browse categories and welcome screen to the customer. Relevant Information: Visual appeal: The visual appearance of the application will be developed in English, and the keyboard will be developed with Chiclet keys for better operations (Sallis, 2014). The high resolution of the images will be used for providing better information about the specific books (Walker, 2015). The developed interface will provide the customer with better browsing experience. Proposed Design The proposed mobile application for the online bookstore application will have a home page that will guide the customer whether to the login page or the browsing catalog. In addition to that, the interface of the proposed application will be designed in such a way that, the home page will effectively direct the new customer to the registration page and the already registered customer to the login page. The customer can skip the registration and login option to browse through the books in the application (Heldman, 2013). The search page will allow the customer to search any books available in the bookstore by name or author name. The login page will access the database to verify the login credentials of the already registered customer in the bookstore. The catalog page will show the customer with various books available in the application and browse through the different books. Evaluation Method The pilot project will be developed and deployed in the physical store that will allow the visiting customer to browse through the books available in the bookstore. The payment method will not be included during the testing and evaluation process. The various method that will be used for the evaluation of the developed application are: Usability Test: The developed pilot application will be evaluated while taking feedback from the customer using the application in the physical store (Mir, Pinnington, 2014). This will allow the project team to gain insight knowledge about the application and modifications required to improve the interface of the application. A survey with the Active User: The survey will be conducted with the user who has visited and used the pilot application at the physical store. The survey will provide information and insight about the customer satisfaction and efficient usability of the application (Min et al., 2014). Snap Test: Apart from that, snap test will be conducted that will capture the customer reaction and first impression of the developed interface and application of the bookstore (Page, 2014). Reference Heldman, K. (2013).PMP: a project management professional exam study guide. John Wiley Sons. Karim, N. A., Shukur, Z. (2016). Proposed features of an online examination interface design and its optimal values. Computers in Human Behavior, 64, 414-422. Landry, J. P., McDaniel, R. (2015). Agile Preparation Within a Traditional Project Management Course. 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