App Design Document

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Table of Contents

• App Design
  • Objective
  • Audience
  • Experience
• Technical
  • Screens
  • External services
  • Views, View Controllers, and other Classes
• MVP Milestones
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6

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App Design

Objective

To help organize/plan project ideas and tasks using good visual layouts with interactive mind maps, trees, and flow charts to help people scope their ideas.

Audience

• Anyone who doesn't want the messiness of paper and wants an easy mapping software
• Anyone who wants to put down ideas and organize their thoughts

Experience

• Creation of mind maps, trees, flowcharts easily
• Easy exportation and printing
• Distinct visual style and layout
• Intuitive and Simple

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Technical

Screens

• Logo screen: Initial View Screen
• Login Screens: Custom * Saves user maps + friends
  • Initial View with logging in/sign up -> becomes logging in -> App
  • Sign up Screen -> App
• Loading Screens
• Hub displaying your layouts + Has "slackish" tutorial
• Layout editor : Node is initial * Has chatting page feature designed into it + Has sprites/items you can use
  • Flowchart page
  • Tree page
  • Download/print out page

External services

• Firebase
• Diagramming api
• Materialistic design fonts + layouts

Views, View Controllers, and other Classes

• Views
  • All Views are found in Screens
    • Screens
• View Controllers
  • A controller for each view
• Other Classes []

Data models

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MVP Milestones

Week 1

planning your app

• Finish Planning + Paper prototyping + Viability
• Finish initial view screen = 1 hour
• Finish Login Screen + Loading = 6-7 hours
• Finish Hub = 1 hour

Week 2

finishing a usable build

• Finish Layout Editor = 24 - 28 hours

Week 3

• Deletion of Nodes
• Changing Zoom and Rotation based on finger location
• Node resizing
• Fix node updating
• Undo transformations
• Center all nodes
• Highlighting nodes(Extremely difficult, Multiple selected nodes)
• Find out what customizable items are there
• Fix Project Node Hub View, setup search bar, tag sort, previewing snapshot
• Saving Data, Firebase implementation, Persist Data
• Clean up code

Week 4

should be finishing all core features

• Text Representation of the node maps
• Generate node maps based on text
• Create the Node Tree
• Create User profile, implement changes of the user account
• "Downloading" functionality + Exportation = 10 hours
  • Export to drive, saving
• cleaning up UI = 20 hours

Week 5

starting the polish

• making a website for the app

Week 6

submitting to the App Store demo day coming up

• Finishing website + submission

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