Ideation Phase

Brainstorming, Sketching, Idea Selection

Ideation Process

Outweighing the pros and cons with each idea along the way

  1. Vacation Planning Mobile Application
      1. Gives user an itinerary for a vacation based on the input to a survey
      2. The survey asks questions on the type of vacation the user wishes to have
      3. The vacation is generated by the answers to this survey which takes in takes type of vacation, number of people, budget etc
  2. Road Trip Application
      1. Problem: When on a road trip, may not know when the next attractions nearby
      2. Solution: Our application will scout out the nearest and most attractions pit stop that let’s it’s user pinpoint and plan out their road trip along the way
      3. User is also allowed to input type of attractions they would want to visit along the way, for example hiking trails vs man made attractions
  3. Food Navigator App
      1. Problem: When on a vacation you are unsure of the type of foods that are in the area
      2. Solution: An application that gives you all the restaurants in the area, user has the option to input their restaurant eating history and user can be given suggestions based on past eating history.

Sketches


Idea Selection

We decided to go with Ideation 1, and expand upon it.

The purpose of the application to make the process of planning a vacation to be a stress free experience. Users can become overwhelmed with information when they are planning a vacation and with the profession of a travel agent dying off, the concept of all in one planning is no more. We want to bring that back as our application provides the user with an itinerary for their dream vacation based on the input to the survey that we give them. The criteria considered include but are not limited to, budget, geographic preference, type of vacation and number of people. All of this information is used to give the user a couple of options if they would like or the application can give them a single vacation completely planned out from the second they land to the moment they get on the plane to go back home.