Assignment: Solve your own problem.

I have decided to build a mobile app to solve my gap. The reason for this is that my mobile device has all of the built in functionality that I need in order to address this problem: notifications, GPS/mapping, communication tools, network connectivity, always with me.

Visual Expression

1. User (most likely a parent or guardian) presses to launch app on mobile device.
2. Parent signs in to app (security will be a high priority).
3. Select student/child from list the parent has access to.
4. Parent can set preferences and access secondary features.
5. Depending on the time of day (morning = going to school, afternoon = coming home from school) the parent will be able to monitor the progress of the child’s school transportation and if the child is on board or not.
6. Parent can set notifications to alert them when the bus is a certain distance or time away from the bus stop or home and/or when the child gets on/off the school bus.
7. See point 5.
8. Device system notifications will alert the parent when the events they are monitoring have occurred.

Prototype