Final App Screens

I have finishes my app screens for this module and I am overall really happy with how they turned out. I took on board the feedback from the class and from Paul and made the changes, I then worked on and make a few more screens. I stuck with the under water theme for most of the screens because I wanted it to be consistent. I also chose to add actual images because I wanted it to feel like a real app and a real coral reef conservation app would definitely have images. I think the combination of image and illustration works well, I was scared it wouldn’t but I think the images I found and colour scheme I chose really blend together.

My App Concept

The concept of this whole app came from my interest in the coral reefs and how they are in urgent need of care and help. I spent so long researching all about coral conservations and what they were, I also got lots of inspiration from websites like volunteer world especially, that website had so much information on various schemes and coral reef trips. People can volunteer in real life to spend weeks learning about coral reefs, helping to harvest them, plant them and so many other activities and I thought this would make a perfect app idea. I wanted to make an app that combined all of this information and give coral reef savers a place to go to book their stay, the locations range from all over the world, and there is a section where users can research the different coral there is or what they found. I wanted the theme of my app to stay ocean themed since all users will be going to be spending majority of their stay in the water itself, doing their bit to save the planet.

Displaying my screens

I thought it would be fun to display my app like this on my website, have the mockups underwater. I placed my home screen illustration behind the mockups, only using the top half, to bring the app to life. I think this works nicely and I can’t wait to see this up and running in my actual portfolio website.

Final thoughts 

Overall I have thoroughly enjoyed this project, it has been one of my favourites to research and get information on because the topic really interests me. I like excepting projects like this because I think the process which can be long is always worth it in the end. My favourite part was making the illustration and then seeing them come to life on the mock ups. Illustration is a passion of mine and I think creating app ones could be something I want to continue. I was faced with some challenges too, for example, ensuring consistency can be hard for me because I feel like I have lots of ideas and I want to try new things per screen but this wouldn’t make for a cohesive design. I also thought it was hard deciding on layout and finalising it, I feel like layout has to be consistent and right for the app to look perfect and for me this can be hard sometimes. I feel like I have made a good job of it though and have kept it simple yet different.