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Beat the Q on Windows Phone, a mockup

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Beat the Q lets you pay for your coffee before you reach the café. They approached us about a Windows Phone version, and yesterday I mocked it up.

Beat the Q is an app from Sydney for ordering and paying for your coffee before you get to the café, so it’s ready when you walk in. It’s on the iPhone and Android, and this month Qantas is trying it out at its Sydney Qantas Club. One of the founders came up with it while stuck in a food queue at a Jack Johnson concert.

Beat the Q approached us about a Windows Phone version, so yesterday I mocked up what it could look like. It’s three screens. Nearby cafés come first, with Favourite and Loyalty beside it as pivots, the way Windows Phone apps work. Pick a café and you choose take-away, dine-in or delivery, then the menu … coffee, cold drinks and food. Pick a cappuccino, set the size, the milk and how many, and tick.

Beat the Q on a yellow Lumia 1020: Nearby, Favourite and Loyalty pivots over a coffee photo, a store search box, and nearby stores Sonoma Bakery Café, Bacco, Qube on Bay and Mr. Burger with their addresses and distancesThe Sonoma Bakery Café page: Take-Away, Dine-In and Delivery buttons, Coffee, Cold Drinks and Food pivots, and a list of cappuccino, mocha and latte with pricesOrdering a cappuccino at $3.50: a description, then Size set to Regular, Milk set to Full Cream and Quantity 1, with cancel and tick buttons at the bottom
Nearby, a café, and a cappuccino, on a Lumia 1020.

The cafés in it are real ones from Sydney. I built it on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 design templates and put it on a yellow Lumia 1020.