Implementation of the user-centered design methodology to develop a sports application

Abstract

This document summarizes the entire development process of my Final Degree Work for the degree in Video Game Design and Development at Jaume I University. The main objective of this work is to develop an application that promotes physical activity by gamifying it. Using user-centered design and the Learning Mechanics - Game Mechanics (LM-GM) framework. As the project develops, it will be ow consistent this design framework is with the user-centered design (UCD) and if it is possible to create applications that satisfy the proposals for gamification of activities, which at first can be tedious. The project that has been chosen for this task has been an application to move from one point to another, whether walking, running or cycling, aimed at a wide audience that wants to start in the world of sports. Due to its mobility, it has been chosen to use Android Studio to develop a mobile application, at the end of this writing it will be possible to see how the application has evolved by submitting it to UCD and its changes are compared with the initial proposal made.