Mobile App Design and Requirements

Start with the design process

People-Aware IOT Apps is a useful starting point for following an app idea through discovery, research, design, prototyping, evaluation and refinement. Its branches also include potential users, surveys and brainstorming. Follow the stages in order, then look back at the user-focused branches to see how they sit alongside the design process.

Explore needs and requirements

For a closer look at requirements, StudyMuse sets out functional and non-functional requirements alongside constraints and features such as a study tracker and song library. Kanna Battle also separates functional and non-functional components, with branches for aesthetic features, constraints and the user environment.

Compare how the maps organize their ideas. You can use their branches to distinguish what an app should do from the constraints and other requirements its design considers.

Look at features and navigation

Disaster App: Floods, Droughts identifies stakeholders, including the general public and volunteers, as well as support for multiple devices. The map about improvements and add-ons includes clock and GPS ideas. Both offer ways to think about features in relation to users.

Airport Wayfinder App Navigation Model presents navigation as a flowchart. Its options include flight information, restaurants and a route. Look at it after the mind maps to compare a navigation structure with a map of requirements or features.

Study with maps and questions

There are no quizzes listed on this page. Instead, turn branches from a mind map into your own questions, then return to the map to check what you remembered. For example, ask which stakeholders appear in the disaster app map or how StudyMuse groups its requirements.

These resources sit within Mobile App Development in Computing and ICT (programming, computer science, digital skills, educational technology). They offer examples of how app ideas, requirements and navigation can be organized within that unit. Choose a map and use its branches to build your own set of questions.