Schedule

Where it starts

Drop-in classes at Linden House Yoga have limited places, and the studio ran them on a sheet by the door and calls to the desk. Both fail at the same point: people who cancel at short notice do not ring — so the spot stays empty while somebody else turns away at the door. Then there is the pass, sitting in a wallet, whose balance nobody knows until it runs out.

Decisions

• Canceling is as easy as booking

  Both are two taps away, and the deadline is stated everywhere it matters. An app that makes booking comfortable and hides canceling produces empty mats in full classes.

• The pass works with no signal

  Pass, code and the last loaded schedule live on the device. The practice room is on the ground floor facing the courtyard, where reception is poor — a pass that fails to load precisely at the desk is not a pass.

• The note for the teacher lives in the account, not in the booking flow

  Anyone with a limitation enters it once, not again with every booking. And next to it stands who reads it: the desk, so the teacher gets a short note before the session — nothing more.

• Android frame

  This studio has a mixed clientele, and the choice fell on Android so that both platforms are visible in this section. The decision is stated here so it stays visible as a decision.

Deliberately left outNo payment in the app. Passes and rates go through the desk — taking money is its own project with its own obligations, and hinting at it here would make a promise the demo does not keep. No social layer either: who practises next to whom is nobody’s business, and an attendance list other people can see keeps people away from a first class.

What is in it

Screens

5

Tabs

4

Content blocks

15

Languages

4

A tab bar with home, schedule, pass and account, plus a pushed class view with a way back and the four states on the account screen. Navigation works; everything else is laid out and does nothing.

How it would go on

• A waiting list that actually moves

  The hard part is not the list, it is the deadline: whoever moves up has to accept within a set time or the spot moves on. That needs a clock on the server, not on the phone.

• Notifications in moderation

  Moving up and cancellations — nothing else. Push is why this app takes work off the desk, and the quickest route to being deleted.

• One pass balance for everyone

  The desk, the website and the app have to see the same balance. Otherwise the desk and the member argue about a number each of them is reading off their own screen.

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