Designing the Educative App for the Determination of Typical Slovenia Rocks

Abstract

Applications presenting the content of a specific professional field are more frequently used for educational purposes. Not only that the interactive solutions including multimedia can more effectively transfer knowledge due to their property to offer a content on a demand, but they are also very attractive, they augment user experience, are able to present more spatial and time dependent data and they usually involve multisensory approaches including senses of vision, hearing and touching. In the research the work frame and a design process of the educative app solution for geological purposes is presented. The aim of the app is to interactively determine stones by means to implement geological stone key. The experimental part presents the strategy phase, in which the target groups were defined, their needs were analysed and touching points for the successful networking, sharing and promotion were introduced. Next, app's functionalities and content types were created, based on the specification of professional field of geology. The content was categorised and labelled so that in the context of the whole app's structure required hierarchy and organisation of the content categories were introduced. User interface design began with simple layout sketches and with iterative approach that followed, more interactive prototypes were designed, developed and tested using the wireframes. In the results the final prototype and its design are presented with the evaluation of user-centred design approach that was implemented in the work frame.