Indonesia. The target users are parents who use smartphones to meet their daily needs, with a
medium lifestyle that prioritizes practicality in carrying out daily activities. As a parent who wants
to monitor the development and meet the needs of their children easily, efficiently, and practically,
application content will be created that can be used to monitor developments and meet the needs
of children in the Daar El-Qolam Islamic Boarding School.
In this application, parents receive various kinds of information about health, education, finance,
and children’s activities in Islamic boarding schools. However, parents can also purchase items
for their children’s needs through the app as well as communicate through social media features
provided in the application with the school, as a means to convey messages to their children. This
application is designed to be modern and dynamic, targeted at the middle- to upper-middle class.
3.2 SWOT analysis
From the SWOT analysis, we obtained the desire of boarding schools, as well as the government,
to develop application design content for parents designed to suit the needs of their children in
boarding schools.
Table 1. SWOT analysis from the interview and observation method.
Strength
Weakness
Accredited Education (A)
Have an international program
The slogan “Caring for tradition
and responding to modernization”
Do not have an application that
can be used by parents to monitor
children’s development
Opportunity
The phenomenon of technological development 4.0
as well as government support for the development of
Islamic boarding schools
With the development of technology 4.0 and support from
the government for the development of Islamic boarding schools,
Daar El-Qolam Islamic Boarding
Schools better can realize their
slogans
The design of this application
could be one step for the Daa ElQolam Islamic Boarding School
in responding to the development
of technology 4.0
Threat
Some Islamic boarding
schools have implemented
applications for parents
Accreditation (A) and international programs can be one aspect
of excellence in competing with
other Islamic boarding schools
that have applied applications for
parents
A good application design in
accordance with user needs will
make this application more functional for all needs
3.3 Message and communication concept
Based on the data obtained through interviews, questionnaires, and observations that were made to
answer the background of parents’concerns about the needs of children in Islamic boarding schools,
the concept of this application was born. The concept of the message to be conveyed is the trust
of parents about child parenting in Islamic boarding schools. This is one of the important factors
that can influence the success of children in boarding school. With this platform, it is expected that
parents can increase trust in children and Islamic boarding schools, especially Daar El-Qolam.
The concept of communication that will be made in this design is an application related to the
User Interface and User Experience which is one of the fields of Graphic Design. Mobile apps are
used as the output of this design because they are in accordance with the target, specifically parents
who prioritize ease in their daily activities. To achieve the engagement of design functions and user
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medium lifestyle that prioritizes practicality in carrying out daily activities. As a parent who wants
to monitor the development and meet the needs of their children easily, efficiently, and practically,
application content will be created that can be used to monitor developments and meet the needs
of children in the Daar El-Qolam Islamic Boarding School.
In this application, parents receive various kinds of information about health, education, finance,
and children’s activities in Islamic boarding schools. However, parents can also purchase items
for their children’s needs through the app as well as communicate through social media features
provided in the application with the school, as a means to convey messages to their children. This
application is designed to be modern and dynamic, targeted at the middle- to upper-middle class.
3.2 SWOT analysis
From the SWOT analysis, we obtained the desire of boarding schools, as well as the government,
to develop application design content for parents designed to suit the needs of their children in
boarding schools.
Table 1. SWOT analysis from the interview and observation method.
Strength
Weakness
Accredited Education (A)
Have an international program
The slogan “Caring for tradition
and responding to modernization”
Do not have an application that
can be used by parents to monitor
children’s development
Opportunity
The phenomenon of technological development 4.0
as well as government support for the development of
Islamic boarding schools
With the development of technology 4.0 and support from
the government for the development of Islamic boarding schools,
Daar El-Qolam Islamic Boarding
Schools better can realize their
slogans
The design of this application
could be one step for the Daa ElQolam Islamic Boarding School
in responding to the development
of technology 4.0
Threat
Some Islamic boarding
schools have implemented
applications for parents
Accreditation (A) and international programs can be one aspect
of excellence in competing with
other Islamic boarding schools
that have applied applications for
parents
A good application design in
accordance with user needs will
make this application more functional for all needs
3.3 Message and communication concept
Based on the data obtained through interviews, questionnaires, and observations that were made to
answer the background of parents’concerns about the needs of children in Islamic boarding schools,
the concept of this application was born. The concept of the message to be conveyed is the trust
of parents about child parenting in Islamic boarding schools. This is one of the important factors
that can influence the success of children in boarding school. With this platform, it is expected that
parents can increase trust in children and Islamic boarding schools, especially Daar El-Qolam.
The concept of communication that will be made in this design is an application related to the
User Interface and User Experience which is one of the fields of Graphic Design. Mobile apps are
used as the output of this design because they are in accordance with the target, specifically parents
who prioritize ease in their daily activities. To achieve the engagement of design functions and user
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