Brief description:

App to see concerts, plan band practice and converse with people about music.

Here you can find our Project:

//git.nwt.fhstp.ac.at/cc241066/ccl3_capeet

by Helena Gamauf and Prithaa Ganeshan

REFLECTION

Challenges

  • We had to bring two projects together and made the mistake of simply copying one project into the other one. We were fighting with errors for the whole first week.
  • We did not practice good git usage in the first week.
  • We struggled to work in small steps. We had two completely different versions of the app because we didn’t commit and push small working changes early enough.

What we did together

We tried our best merging our two projects into one and dealt with the errors as well as we could (we ended up getting a lot of help from Ramon <3).

The home screen was a team effort: Prithaa made the events, bands and posts show up and Helena did the search function.

We also struggled with Firestore—not because it was hard to use, but because we realized we did not need to create a local database. Firestore provides an offline cache where changes are queued if offline and synced to the cloud when back online.

Team contributions

Prithaa

  • Built core parts of the forum and the profile screen, plus helped stabilize login and related flows when issues came up.
  • Created the Git page early on and wrote most of the user test plan (then added Helena’s content into the documentation).

Helena

  • Worked mostly on events and bands, including the search functionality and data handling around it.
  • Led the UI styling work and improved layout/visual consistency across screens.
  • Conducted the User Testing, analyzed the data and wrote the Usability Study Report.

Initial concept vs final app

We implemented the app the way we planned. There is maybe a ~10% difference compared to our original design, but the functionalities are exactly as planned.

Further improvements

  • Loading times are sometimes long.