Adotaí: um aplicativo para adoção de animais com utilização do Atomic Design

Abstract

The number of pets in Brazil has grown significantly, and with that, the number of abandoned animals has also grown. Several factors explain the reasons that lead people to practice abandonment, such as: lack of planning, change of residence and economic factors. This practice causes even greater problems for both the population and the animals on the streets, as they are subject to mistreatment, fatal traffic accidents and disease transmission. This research aims to create an app for animal adoption, bringing animals that need to be adopted closer to future tutors. For this, the objective was to create the app's interface using Atomic Design, as a methodology for creating user interfaces in a standardized, hierarchical and easy-to-reuse way. In addition to the use of reuse-oriented software engineering, as a process to guide the methodology's activities. In this way, the needs were identified and documented based on the study of other works, prototyping the app's components and screens. In addition, the designed solution was validated based on a questionnaire made available to users along with the prototypes, with the aim of obtaining feedback on the presented solution and verifying whether the collected requirements were met. The application was also developed using the React Native framework and a usability test was applied to verify the level of user satisfaction with the app. Through this work, bibliographical research, benchmarking of developed solutions, requirements documentation, prototyping, application of a questionnaire to the target audience, app development and usability testing were carried out.