Case study: How I created a mobile app in less than five hours

Preface: This is just a mockup and nota published application. In yet another attempt to challenge myself this year, I decided to try and design an app in less than five hours. While brainstorming ideas, I got an email alert from a website I use to keep track of my finances, and then it clicked. I was going to create an app that keeps track of all your entertainment subscriptions.

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Here we go! In less than five hours, I created the app Stay Subscribed. This is a very sleek and simple app that helps you to keep track of all your subscription services and how much money you are spending for each. Ideally, this app will include all entertainment subscription services and will update you whenever the company changes their rates.

What you’ll see when you open the app for the first time.

A quick and easy login page that takes you directly to your dashboard.

Let's say that you want to sign up for the app, here’s what you will see.

You will get a confirmation e-mail, but you will not need to confirm your e-mail

Since this is your first time accessing the app with a new account, there will be a few questions to answer to understand your subscription habits.

The app will walk you through the process.

Upon clicking “Ok!” you will be lead to a list of popular subscription service. What I have now is just a handful, but ideally, it should have the majority of services. If your subscription service is not on the list, you will have the ability to manually add it on your dashboard.

The app will show you a box on your dashboard that reminds you of what you chose for future reference

The selection page is necessary for the next page which prompts you to connect the services you chose to the app by logging into each service through the app. Meaning that clicking on each service prompts a pop up of the login page of the services for easy login. You can close the page and it will take you back to the list below.

And that’s it! That’s the application that I created in less than five hours. Truth be told, the most time-consuming part was creating the visuals. While designing the app, I was mainly thinking of ways it can be fully accessible to all. I did this by making each screen simple with minimal items on the screen, using a sleek black and white color palette that is easier on the eyes, the text is bigger for hard of sight, and there is an option to activate voice over for those who are visually impaired.