Tap for iOS : Case Study

Building a very minimal application for everyday use. 👆

The Problem

The WiFi first connects us to a captive portal, where you are supposed to enter your credentials, and then WiFi access is granted. The captive portal is very glitchy, and it’s not responsive at all. This makes it really difficult to enter the credentials, and it all has to be done using the inbuilt browser, when the phone connects to the WiFi.

The Challenges

The main challenges while designing this were to keep it extra minimal. The user is not supposed to spend more than 5–10 seconds per login. This makes everything extra and designer redundant, since in this case, our main objective is to have the user finish up as soon as possible.

Execution : Design

After analysis older, previous generations of captive portal bypassing apps, I came to the conclusion that there’s only one thing this app needs.

One Button. One Job. One Tap.

Once set-up with the user’s LoginID and Password, the user can immediately log in to the wifi seamlessly with the auto-login.
All the user has to do is connect to the WiFi, and open the app.

Welcome To Tap.

Takeaway

Building Tap made me stretch my limits to how minimal an app can be.
This app was one of my first designs that was fully implemented and used by the common public. The scope of the challenge was limited, but that was exactly I need to sharpen up my skills.

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