Users

These personas help elaborate on what content should be in the app and prototype, as well, it helps define how to populate the area of the app.

Defining who the app is for

• Experienced players who DM

• Casual players who just play characters

• And the new person who wants to try D&D, but doesn’t want to spend a bunch of money

Persona 1

Gregory Williams (experienced D&D player)

age 23

lives in MN

Needs: to keep track of spells and equipment I.e. arrows, potions, and exhausted spells. Also wants to make a character quickly and wants all bonus math to be done for them.

Persona 2

Adam Dingman (a casual player who doesn’t DM)

Age 23

Lives in MN

Needs: Wants to create multiple characters and wants to be able to equip them quickly and wants an in-depth background area to tell their characters childhood story.

Persona 3

Aaron Nay

Age 22

Lives in CO

Needs: New to D&D and wants to create a character fast also wants to make sure his equipment items are kept track of when he uses them.

User testing and results.

With user testing done, it showed how the high fidelity results will come out, and what is needed in them. The user testing audio and video will

be placed below

It helped to identify the problems with the app what was a button and what wasn’t this gave insight on how to change the layout and how to make it easier for the user. This also narrowed down what the tasks were for the app, and what to make for a premium option for the app. After testing it gave insight on color and what to colorize and what shouldn’t be colorized. As well, user testing helped identify how to make the app streamlined and make it more into a game status.

Competitors

Top competitors are

• D&D beyond

• Pencil and paper

• Roll 20

• Companion

• Thes competitors all bring different ideas to the game and different styles of play

D&D beyond

It cost around 400-500 dollars to get all the access for content, and they don’t separate the content from free to premium until the person clicks on it, making it difficult to know what’s available and what isn’t

Roll 20

Its only available on a desktop, and offers the basic rules and a style of character sheet development. It also offers a dungeon creation tool, but for premium members only. It also looks, and feels basic, and outdated with the grainy maps and how the character sheets are set up to look like a 90’s window startup screen.

Pencil and paper

This is the classic way to play D&D, but requires the use of PDF’s or books, yet is a lot to carry to sessions if the player has books, which, can range from 5 books, for the casual player, to 8 books for the DM. This amount of books is annoying, having to prepare for a session a few hours in advance, so the person has all their equipment. They also have to not lose character sheets and do math by hand.

Companion

This is one of the only apps that work for character sheet creation, and maintaining, although, it still feels outdated in a sense, and doesn’t hold too much for players to customize the Character also has to input a lot of info in by hand and basically copy their character sheet.

Pros and cons of the app

Pros

• Players have all the basic needs at their fingertips and filters out what premium automatically so players don’t get confused.

• Quick and efficient character creation

• An inexpensive subscription fee for premium

• Allows players to contain the background of their person in their character sheet.

• Keeps track of items and spells

Cons

• Subscription fee

• Not much icon variety for different types of armor

• Not an actual app

• May require ads to bring in revenue after app development.