Understanding the Design Specifications

In this section, we will look at the design specifications of our App Store application and describe the features we are going to implement in it. The best method for figuring out the features required is to put yourself in the user’s shoes to determine how they will use the app, then break it into individual steps.

There can be many features of our app, and they are as follows:

• Sidebar – for different sections of the app.
• Highlight banner – showcasing an app of the day.
• Featured tiles – showcasing lesser apps or more specific category applications.
• New apps and updates section.
• Search – the ability to search the whole collection for a specific app
• Account management.
• App reviewing.
• App reporting.
• App page – showing information such as description and date for a selected app, similar to the EnhancedView from the photo gallery application we created previously...