Pong Line App - Part 1: Definition

The first part of solving a problem is clearly defining it. For the app, I needed to make it clear what the app was going to do, and what it wasn't. This is also an easy way to think up new features. I brainstormed on a sheet of paper until I had a clear idea of what the purpose of the app was.

I decided on the name 'What's Line', with the question mark in a splash screen (if it ends up needing one). The main problems that the app wanted to address were:

• It's hard to keep line in multiple frats
• It's a pain to keep track of line as a brother
• Line gets rearranged when a brother steps off
• You don't know where are in line
• Brothers can't find you
• What's your win-loss record

Then I came up with the things that we wanted our app to explicitly do:

• Allow you to add people to a line
  • Scan a QR Code (Snapchat esque)
  • Add from contacts
• Allow you to rearrange people
• Allow you to create/delete a line
• Allow you to delete people from a line
• Allow you to transfer a line from one phone to another
• Display what lines you are in, and your place in those lines
• Notifications on place change (maybe just on next?)