Strategy
As a group, we decided to go with the idea of creating an app for our client Jerome Smith, who was clearly having a bad day. Jerome is 32 years old, who works in the Finance Department at PNC, he commutes from Sewickley everyday and always needs a cup of coffee when he gets up. He is also a very frugal individual. As a creator, our goal is to create a gas station app that would be able to connect to every gas station for convenient payments while providing roadside services. Because Jerome is a busy and frugal man, we hope that our app would allow Jerome to be able to access perks of saving money using this app while being able to go about his busy life without having to wait in line at gas stations. Not only would Jerome be able to access the convenience of paying, he would also be able to experience of being on time from the roadside alerts.
Scope
Our gas station app had many features and functions that will meet our goals. In our app we added in the function to add gas station membership cards (GetGo, Sheetz, BP, etc…) so that our users would be able to access any gas station with just one app and earn rewards to save money on gas. In addition to adding membership cards, our app users are also able to add their preferred payment to the app and the app will be able to automatically charge the card when they get gas. Not only would our app be able to add membership and payment cards, our app users are also able to compare gas prices near their location. This will allow our app users the ability to save some money when they need to get gas.
Due to the fact that our users are probably busy people, we also included notifications of when the gas tank is low. This will allow user’s ahead of time of when they should get gas before they forget that they don’t have enough gas to get to work the next day and end up late. We also added the feature of ordering gas ahead of time or prepay at a specific pump to save our users some time so if they are on their way to somewhere they would just have to pump and go. We also took the consideration of adding an alert to the users to put their gas cap back on because people can forget to do that all the time. In additions to alerts, our app users will also be able to receive roadside alerts for traffics, closed roads, and accidents. This feature would allow our users to know ahead of time that they should probably go a different route.