Goals

I was tasked with creating an app for Plitivice Lakes National Park.

Before I began I outlined a coupled of key goals to guide the project with the hopes of solving a real problem that people experience with the park. I wanted the app to help people:

However, the main emphasis for the app was to help facilitate effective trip planning.

Research

To do that, I had to learn about how people plan trips. So I talked to a couple of friends, to understand how they plan trips.

In talking with them, I learned a lot about how they approach trip planning and what would be useful to know if they were planning a trip to Plitivice Lakes NP.

Notes About Trip Planning

Notes About Trip Planning

Using those notes, I went a head and started sketching out my ideas.

Ideation

I outlined my ideas for the structure of the app using different charts and divided the app features into