A Windows-Based "Colouring In" Application for Kids
Budget: $750 – $1,500 AUD
Hi!!
I am looking for someone to build an app like THIS ONE HERE: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NBLGGH50VWP.
Our brief is to replicate this functionality, but with the following differences:
1. We will provide new graphics for all background, buttons, etc - so that the UI is branded differently
2. We will not have 'categories' of colouring in pages - we'll just have one long list to choose from (and we will supply all the colouring in templates, of course. There will be approx 50)
3. The buttons on the left of the coloring in screen will look and behave the same (a cursor draw option, a paint bucket fill option, an eraser option, and bin/clear option)
4. The buttons on the bottom of screen will not exist. There is no undo/redo, there is no requirement to 'save' your work, and the button that changes the brush size doesn't exist because that tool is set to the third smallest brush size permanently
5. The colours on the right will behave the same (scroll and select), except we will select 50 colours and order them differently
7. There will be no 'home' button in the top right, because the back button in the top left will take the user back to the page selection tool and no more user navigation is required
Initially, I'd be keen to hear what kind of estimate of time you think it would take, and what your hourly rate would be, to give us a project cost estimate. If we're aligned on that, we can proceed to start to concept it up and I'll brief our designers on mockups.
Remember the app should be full screen, so that the user can't exit the app. We will 'lock' it down in Windows Kiosk mode, to ensure it's super stable and reliable - just per the reference app linked to above.
Then, if the above is something we build pretty easily, there is optional 'bonus scope' we could then look at. It would be amazing if:
1. In the list of colouring in pages to choose from, there was an option the user could select to 'take a photo' (perhaps it's the first option displayed, on the very left of all options). If selected, it would do a 3-second countdown, take a photo using the webcam, and give the user the ability to draw over the photo taken from the webcam, rather than use a templated colouring in screen
2. Because there is no menu at the bottom, it'd be cool to replace the bottom menu with a list of 'stamps'. When the user selects a colour in the right hand section, the stamps change over to 10 stamps that match that colour. These stamps are just PNG files we provide, that have transparency to make sure they look like 'stamps'. The user would drag the stamps from the bottom panel onto the page, and could resize them with pinch motion. They will always sit on 'top' layer (so 'colouring in' using the other functionality would not influence the stamps at all, to keep it super simple).
But let's only look at this bonus scope once we've built the core functionality, per above.
I am looking for someone to build an app like THIS ONE HERE: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NBLGGH50VWP.
Our brief is to replicate this functionality, but with the following differences:
1. We will provide new graphics for all background, buttons, etc - so that the UI is branded differently
2. We will not have 'categories' of colouring in pages - we'll just have one long list to choose from (and we will supply all the colouring in templates, of course. There will be approx 50)
3. The buttons on the left of the coloring in screen will look and behave the same (a cursor draw option, a paint bucket fill option, an eraser option, and bin/clear option)
4. The buttons on the bottom of screen will not exist. There is no undo/redo, there is no requirement to 'save' your work, and the button that changes the brush size doesn't exist because that tool is set to the third smallest brush size permanently
5. The colours on the right will behave the same (scroll and select), except we will select 50 colours and order them differently
7. There will be no 'home' button in the top right, because the back button in the top left will take the user back to the page selection tool and no more user navigation is required
Initially, I'd be keen to hear what kind of estimate of time you think it would take, and what your hourly rate would be, to give us a project cost estimate. If we're aligned on that, we can proceed to start to concept it up and I'll brief our designers on mockups.
Remember the app should be full screen, so that the user can't exit the app. We will 'lock' it down in Windows Kiosk mode, to ensure it's super stable and reliable - just per the reference app linked to above.
Then, if the above is something we build pretty easily, there is optional 'bonus scope' we could then look at. It would be amazing if:
1. In the list of colouring in pages to choose from, there was an option the user could select to 'take a photo' (perhaps it's the first option displayed, on the very left of all options). If selected, it would do a 3-second countdown, take a photo using the webcam, and give the user the ability to draw over the photo taken from the webcam, rather than use a templated colouring in screen
2. Because there is no menu at the bottom, it'd be cool to replace the bottom menu with a list of 'stamps'. When the user selects a colour in the right hand section, the stamps change over to 10 stamps that match that colour. These stamps are just PNG files we provide, that have transparency to make sure they look like 'stamps'. The user would drag the stamps from the bottom panel onto the page, and could resize them with pinch motion. They will always sit on 'top' layer (so 'colouring in' using the other functionality would not influence the stamps at all, to keep it super simple).
But let's only look at this bonus scope once we've built the core functionality, per above.