Project Design Proposal A Mobile Application

Question: Describe about the Project Design Proposal for A Mobile Application. Answer: Updated Project Brief The project has been made for developing a mobile application for online activities of the book shop. The shopkeeper of the book shop wants to design and imply the mobile app for easing the current process of trading in the shop. Objectives of the project The objectives of the project of development of the mobile app for the book shop include: Creation of app structure- The project would be helpful for developing the structure for the application used in Smartphone. The structure would have to be user friendly and it should comply with the operations of the book shop Meet User requirements: The application developed for the books shop would have to meet the requirements of the users. The requirements of user include the easy to use, simple interface, and 250 numbers of simultaneous users for the application. Simple operation: The application developed would have to help the book shop customers with easy operations for buying or searching the books from the digital stock inventory. Outputs of the project The outputs of the mobile app development project are: Ease of sales operation: The mobile app development would result in easing the operations of sales in the bookshop. Customers would just have to check for the book in the digital stock inventory of the app and can place order from it. Automated data recording system: The automatic customers data recording would be possible with the help of mobile app development. The customer would feed the data himself/herself on the application database. Increase in targeted sales: The use of automatic data entering system would manage the customers and ease the flow of operations at the bookshop. Hence, the overall target of the information system would be for increasing the final sales by increasing the efficiency and pace of operations of the bookshop. However, the overall result of the application system would be increment of the final sales by increasing the efficiency and pace of operations at the bookshop. Targets of the project The targets for the mobile application development include the frequent customers, young readers, and nearby local book shops. Frequent customers: The customers that have been buying from the shops since a long time on a frequent basis are the target of the bookshop. The shopkeeper would want to make the frequent customers of the shop to become loyal by offering them quicker services. Young readers: The youths are the major target of the bookshop for implementing the application. The young individuals are techno freaks and they would be attracted to the new application system of the bookshop. Local book shops: The local bookshops can use the services of the app for quicker searching of the required books and magazines from the book shop inventory. It would enable them to search for books and place the order for their shops. Project Success Criteria The success criteria of the project can be evaluated from the feedbacks of the customers and the progress of the application developed (Alqahtani and Saba 2013). The success criteria of the project depend upon the appropriate function of the application, successful implementation of the system, and excellent customers feedback. Appropriate Function of the application: The sales process and the stock management of the bookshop must be improved with the implementation of the application. Successful Implementation of the system: The application developed from the project must assist the bookshop for installing the digital information system and align it with their operations and functions. Excellent Customers Feedback: The good reviews and excellent feedbacks from the customers would provide the base of the success criteria of the application system. Project Design Proposal The project design proposal is used for making an outline of the project that can provide an overview of the project details, description, objectives, cost, return, and benefits. Design aims The aims of the design for implementing the application system at the book shop are efficiency, cost reduction, and user experience enhancer. Efficiency: the primary aim of the design is to provide the efficiency for the operations of the book shop. The application development would have to provide the configuration of the design in terms of the processes involved (Borghoff and Pareschi 2013). The sales process of the book shop can be improved as the customers of the bookshop would be able to search for the book and place the order by using the mobile application. Cost Reduction: The application developed for the book shop should be helpful for decreasing the amount of work required for the data entry and stock management. It would result in decreasing the cost required for the processes of the book shop. User Experience enhancer: The application developed for the process of searching the books and placing the order must be kept user friendly and simple. According to Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons (2013), the complex design would tend the customers to get irritated from the application. Outline of the proposed design Outline of the proposed designs: The suggested proposal outline for the project of Development of Mobile Application for an online Book Shop. The proposed design would be based on the simple user interface and synchronized with the operations of the bookshop. The proposed design has been shown in the figure below: Figure 1: Proposed Design of the Mobile Application (Source: Developed by the author) Screen 1: The design of the application has shown that a simple user interface with two tabs at the main page namely login and register for new user at the home screen. Screen 2: The unregistered user would have to register by entering the contact details. The registered user would have to log in by their user ID and password. Screen 3: After login, the user can check the library of the bookshop or search the book by entering the title of the book, author name, or publication house. Screen 4: The inventory screen would show the book from genres, year, most read, or top selling. The customer can select the book and make the purchase query from the app. Screen 5: If the book is not available, the user would have to keep the book in their checklist. An email notification would be sent to the user when the book would be available. Evaluation of the design The mobile application development process would be helpful for developing and deploying the smart information storage and sales processing system at the book shop. The evaluation of the design can be done by using test run of the application and expert review. Test run: The test run is the test of the functionality of the application before deploying it in the book shop (Tran et al. 2013). The designer and tester would use the application to search for the books available in the digital inventory. Trial and error method is used for the testing of the mobile application of the book shop. Expert review: There are many application development experts and their research article that can be used for providing the theoretical knowledge for the application development. According to Verzuh (2015), it should be focused on the security of the application. Bibliography Alqahtani, F.A. and Saba, T., 2013. 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