Thursday, September 4, 2014

Hi! My name is Oliviero Figus and this is the first post to my IEOR 190e mobile applications class blog!

This week I met with my team members Riley, Laith, Kek and Shao. We decided that the app that we wanted to vivisect was Venmo: a peer-to-peer payment app that is rapidly growing in popularity.

Venmo is special because it enables users to send money to each other using an interface comparable to a text message as well as combining the payments with a small social media.  I assigned myself to analyse the app's design principles as my other group members researched the user-interface, back-end and business model.  I learned that the design is oriented about being "content-first", fast, mobile and trustworthy.  The new venmo design was finalised after having studied a world-leader in application design, apple, and its iOS7 applications. The venmo co-founders want the apps design to evoke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuRhETwbI0

After having finished research and preparing information to share with each other, we met up again and put together a 5-slide deck to present our findings to the rest of the class.

That's all for now!
Cheers,
Oliviero


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