The 5-Finger Plan

Five fingers, five steps

Hold up your hand. Every finger is one step of making an app. Touch each finger and say its word!

Finger 3: DRAW your two screens

Your app needs just 2 screens to start. Draw 2 phone shapes on your paper:

1. Screen 1: the hello screen. What does your person see first? Draw ONE big friendly button in the middle. What does the button say?
2. Screen 2: the helping screen. What happens after the big button is tapped? This is where the helping happens. Draw it!
3. Draw an arrow from the button on Screen 1 to Screen 2. That arrow is the whole journey of your app.

Your magic wish words

On build day, your grown-up will type a wish to the AI. Big word alert: grown-ups call a wish like this a prompt. A good wish tells the AI 4 things:

Say your wish out loud while your grown-up writes it down on the paper. Here is Zara's, so you can see the shape:

Make an app that helps a granny remember to water her plants.

Screen 1: a big friendly hello with one big button that says "My Plants".
Screen 2: a list of plants with fun names I can add, and each plant shows which day to water it. Tapping a plant makes a happy "watered!" tick appear.

Colours: leaf green and mango orange. Big buttons and big letters, easy for a granny to read.