Now that I have come up with a travel app idea, and have done some illustration research, I feel like now is the appropriate time to start planning my travel app user interface.

At the start I had no idea where to even begin, thus I went back to my previous blog to check my previous notes. I reminded myself of my previous ideas and combined them.

Here are my previous ideas;

• possibly a reward system
• simple yet eye-catching - possibly through a nice and colourful graphic paired with a simple white/black/grey background
• A map system - where users can interact with a real map and see places they have been/ still want to visit
• informational but not overbearing
• a wish list?/ recommended page?/upcoming trip page?

And there is my final idea after I combined them;

Now that I have got a general idea of where my app is going, I need to consider which screens should I try to showcase. I need to consider this as I know that an app can have many different user interfaces, I mean even considering starting off a new app - you have the initial loading page, the login page/ the setup page if you are a new user, the introduction page etc. I think what really helped me is to think about a user journey through an app. I have never done this before, so I'm going off on my own instinct, but I need to recognise that I need to work on it in the future;

I picked the pages that can show off my app ideas such as - a reward system, map system and quest map etc, and checked that they satisfy the requirement of my project brief;

• a minimum of at least six screens, which should include: a home/app launch screen, destination/journey screen (whatever range of locations the app may include), at least three screens illustrating three destinations or one destination with two additional screens providing more information.

and there are the pages I picked (the ones encircled);

The reason why I want to have the same user interface pages but have 1 zoomed in and another not is that I want to show that my app is interactive and that users and zoom in/ scroll through/interact with the app.

And also, I just want to clarify, that in the "destination summery" bit, I actually don't mean zoomed in. I want 2 different destinations summery, each destination summary has 2 pages, one page scrolled up so the user can read more information, and one that is scrolled down so that the user can see more of the illustration.

Now that I know what user interface page I need to put together, I started to do some mock designs on pages. I was a little hesitant on whether I should include mock designs in my research, as they are all really rough looking. I do mock designs mainly just to give me an idea of the big picture so that I'm not totally clueless when I go and start my prototypes in Figma. In the end, I decided to include them in my research, because through them it will be easier to see why I did what I did in the finalised user interface in Figma.