TyphoonBy Charlie Stewart, Chris Hart and Joshan Amalendran

What is Typhoon?

Typhoon is an app which allows you to access and edit your files saved on your personal computer through your phone. This will be useful for those who work at home as well as in the work place. For example, if somebody leaves some important paperwork on their pc at home, they can access it using the Typhoon app. This will be particularly useful for people who have a lot of work on their plate and may forget to do something important.

Problems That Typhoon Solves

You are able to print or access some important paperwork you forget to print off or pack, saved on your pc.

You can retrieve paperwork that is damaged or lost.

You can edit something you wrote on a report you have written, while on the way to school or the office.

You are able to send files to your friend even if your device does not have a PDF printer who can only access PDF documents.

What Question Does Typhoon Address?

“What could I do when I leave something important saved on my PC at home?” This question is commonly faced by people who go to school or have to hand in paperwork regularly at their work.

Why is Typhoon Helpful?

Save yourself the trouble of remembering to save your documents on a USB or printing them at home, by simply clicking on the file and using a hotkey to designate it to slowly upload in the background if other programs are running which would need higher bandwidth. Ever want to ask your friends for help on a project, but they can’t access the file you send them. Typhoon solves that problem as it automatically downloads Adobe reader alongside sending multiple types of folder type.

XLR8

Our team, XLR8, is developing a mobile application to help busy students and office workers who have left important documents at home by allowing them to access their files through this app.

User Profiles

As we were scoping, we interviewed 15 fellow students who agreed that it was a common issue to leave U.S.B stick’s or files at home, on school days. Several of them had not heard of an app which could carry out the functions Similar to Typhoon, and thought it would be a good Idea.

Competitors

Our app has a potential competitor, Dropbox. However, Dropbox is designed for older users, whereas Typhoon is aimed at secondary school children and companies where workers are unable to use.

Our special features Typhoon specialises in the use of both Bluetooth to

sync in a select group of your devices. Typhoon also, unlike Dropbox, has the option to

set due dates and send push notifications and reminders at the appropriate times.

Another feature unique to typhoon is group folders, which allow you to save files and post comments on a server for a select group of peer and colleagues.

Typhoon also allows you to share your files to social media, such as Facebook, Twitter ,Google+, etc.

Login Wireframe

Our app’s Login wireframeIs based around a base colour of purple as it is a colour which is used fairly seldom in App world while the design is the typical design for an app. From her you can either login in, signup or reset your password.

Sign-up Wireframes

Our signup is split into 5 steps each step is simple and pressing the next or back buttons can take you to the previous or next slide. Pressing cancel brings you back to the log in screen, while pressing the logo on the final step takes you to the home screen.

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Home-screen Wireframe

On the home screen wireframe, you can create and upload new files. You can also sync new devices to your account. From your mobile you are able to edit files while on the go. Another option from the home screen is to create a new group folder to send messages, recordings, videos and files to peers and colleagues.

Marketing Strategy

With an initial start up budget we aim to find several add spaces for our app in related applications or websites, while also selling out advert spaces to other companies this way after we have enough users we will stop the advertising and then begin giving an initial advert space.