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Hello @musabbihanoor
I am happy to inform you that after going through you application, portfolio and test react app, would like to have you for an interview. I hope you have recovered from your ailment and will be able to make it. The interview is only for us to get to know you to see if you have the soft skills mentioned in the requirements.

Date: Monday 27th September 2021
Time: 1-2 pm Berlin Time
Place: https://discord.gg/FX8W8CZZ

We hope to see you there. If you have any question or concerns before the time, please don't hesitate to contact us.
If you can't make it, pleas contact us in good time before the set time and provide a reason.
PS: You will need to create a discord account if you don't already have one. The interviews will be done on discord.
Thank You,
Ted

Hello @musabbihanoor ,
I am a member of FotoDino team and I am responsible for looking at our app. Thank you being patient as we had quite a number of submissions and took a while to get to yours.
Firstly, I would like to thank you for taking the interest and time to apply and also to create the test project. We created the test so we can check if the applicants are a fit for our company. Your demo app has a few problems that may make it difficult for us to choose you. The issues are listed below:

UI/UX and navigation

This job is a frontend job, which means your app's appearance and usability are very important. We were not looking for a world class design with beautiful animations, we were looking at how usable the app is and how the information is presented to the user.
There is no way to go back home after selecting a city or searching, and no indication of what can be done on the application. For example, there is no way of going back to the full list of cities from this screen except by reloading the application:

You can design a nice application, but if it confuses the user, there is no way they are going to use it. Here are some of the UI/UX problems I found:

• The City Form remains static while the See more card on the right doesn't
• The See more card spans the entire height of the page while showing nothing more on it.
• The City Form has no border or shadow around it like See more card does.
• The See more card can be dismissed while City Form cannot. This leads to a waste of space.
• The text Places to visit is the same color as all call to action buttons, implying it is a link of some sort, but it does nothing.
• The sort by drop down is in what looks like is supposed to be a nav bar, and is completely disconnected from the form. It is there for impossible to know what you are sorting by. Also, it doesn't fit with the rest of the page styles.
• There is n locations to visit under each city, but no way of viewing said locations.
• The Search button has a low contrast color in comparison to the background, making it hard to even see it.
• Clicking on See more button sometimes causes the page to scroll unnecessarily, as seen below.

404 errors

Your applications seems to be making queries to an unknown api endpoint.

No locations view.

The cities are there and visible, but there is no way of viewing or even managing locations. It makes this whole app pointless because if your interest was in booking a hotel, how would you do that?

Closing thoughts

What you made is impressive, but the issues that plague the app are more than the average user can stand. If you wish to correct the issues, you have 48 more hours to do so, until Thursday 23/09/2021. If and when you make the improvements, reply to this issue ticket so I can find it. If you do not wish to continue with the application, please reply to this issue ticket or message Ivo.

Thank you,
Ted