I researched a variety of stuff, such as the 25 principles of mobile app design, which gave me insight into thinking about what a user may want, I researched how people hold their phones, which showed me which areas of the screen I should prevent from button buttons because they were hard to reach for some users. I also looked into some well known designers, such as John Maeda, who said "Simplicity is about living life with more enjoyment and less pain", which got me thinking about designing a simple app that everyone can easily understand quickly.

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Taking things out into the real world helped a lot with thinking about how to design my app too. I took 3 apps that are already on the market that use navigation and are based outside, and tested them, noting down what I liked, and what I didn't like, which helped me gage how far I wanted to push my app. I found to get a better sense of what my apps function would look like on a mobile screen, taking a 360 video of a short walk was great, because I could tell how my app might work, and how I would want the screen relatively untouched while a user was using it for navigation. I then took it one step further, using an app called Augment, to see how the app would work with an actual AR route on the screen.

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This all came together in my app flowchart, which showed how the apps UI would look like and how the UX would work.