What is your perfect app? This is the question I spent this week pondering. What problem do I have in my life that an app could fix? I think what I came up with in the end is something I would totally use.

I had zero clue where to start so I decided to pick my current most used apps. This came down to instagram, pinterest, to good to go, IMDB and amazon shopping. Then I did some research on the most downloaded apps of 2025 just to get a better understanding of what the general public use the most.

I thought about what are some commonalities of all my most used apps are.

Some had shopping involved that helped me order things that I needed and allowed me to think about products and services that didn’t previously come to mind. They served a function in my life. I like knowing what’s out there and having it at my fingertips.

Most of these apps have photos and videos, and I like that way of seeing things. I am a visual person.

Some of them include food, where to get it and different recipes to try. All of them have useful knowledge to me, weather that be about movies and tv shows to fun trends and clothes I would like. 

Now that I had a better idea of what I should be looking for, I wanted to get all these thoughts and ideas down on a page. That’s where ideation techniques come in. I first started with the ideation technique called braindump. This is where you give yourself a time limit of about 5-10 minutes to write down all the thoughts in your head. Whatever you can think of. This technique was really good for me to declutter my mind.

Honestly most of my results were just the fact that it got my brain moving more than anything else. There were some big central themes after that process.

That is where my next technique comes into place. I chose to take the ideas from my braindump and put them towards mind mapping. This is a visual representation of thoughts and ideas that connect. This also helped me organize my ideas and find which ones were the main and most prominent ideas that can lead into something.

After that I really thought I had a couple ideas that really could work. So the last ideation techniques I used was reverse thinking. This was a technique that I wanted to do to really understand what the problem I was trying to solve was. The understanding of my generation, the world I live in, my day to day needs and so much more.

This lead to understanding the difficulty that my generation has with decision making, money issues, the economy and this idea that there is a big world to explore. So low and behold this sparked the idea for my perfect app.

One that is user friendly, that can help support new and growing businesses, that can help the environment and that over all helps everyone mental health and well being.

So the final question is, what is the app? Well wouldn’t you like to know? Keep and eye out cause one day it will be one your favorites list as well.