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What Makes a Good App?

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  • 6 questions
  • 17 marks
  • about 25 minutes
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Question types: multiple choice, true or false, matching, fill the gap, multi-part.

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Every app has a purpose. A calculator app is best classified under which purpose category?

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Explore the purpose and target audience of apps, key UI/UX design principles, and how to decompose an app into screens, components and rules.

11 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. What Is an App?
  2. Target Audience
  3. UI/UX Principles
  4. Colour & Contrast
  5. Decomposition
  6. An App Is Just a Tappable Algorithm
  7. Spot the Problem
  8. App Analysis Task
  9. Plenary — Back to Our Objectives
Unit bundleMobile App Development
Part of: Mobile App Development: the whole unitEvery resource in the unit in one zip.

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