Portfolio | Charles Windlin
Open House

Imagine an app that lets you meet your new home today, right around the corner.

Final Presentation of the Concept

Brief description

This was a commercial project, part of a course at the Royal Insitute of Technology KTH. The aim of this peoject was to create a business model and an application that might have commercial success. It was based on a former idea of my team mates.

Commercial Design Project

Topic

Leisure

Used Methods

Business Model Generation, Prototyping, critique sessions and supervision

Technology used

Sketch, Indesign, Invision

Team

Julia Gerhardson, Fiona Karlsson, Charles Windlin

My Role

Prototype, Graphic Design

Solution

The concept entails an mobile app that enables the user to search for visiting hours of appartments on sale based on location and current time. The emphasis was on spontaneity, so that the user could look up possible openhouses at the time seh pleases. Another option was to being able to plan ahead and activate notifications if a openhouse is right around the corner.

Part of the project was also to create a flyer for potential investors.

Flyer for potential investors (front)

Flyer for potential investors (back)

Prototype

Click here to get the invision prototype

Design Process

Initially we had to create a business model. We used the Business Model Canvas from Alex Osterwalder which helped us to pin down whom to address, what supply chain we need and how to create a revenue. We created a prototype in Invision. The graphic design was done in Sketch from Bohemian Coding.

Business Model Canvas

Screen Design in Sketch from Bohemian Coding

Challenges

The business model has its challenges especially the revenue part. Most of the ideas have a nice value proposition, a matching customer base and a suitable supply chain. But how the revenue is created seems to be tougher than always assumed.

Role in Team

I took part in the business model generation, obviously. Also, I did the graphic design in Sketch and transfered it to invision and created the prototype.