Design and Implementation of General Drug Purchasing Place Search Application for Users’ Convenience

Thirteen kinds of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals with small side effects and fast treatment effects became available in retail stores or convenience stores as well as drugstores. This is expected to increase consumers’ options for drug purchases and partially resolve discomfort triggered because drugs were only available in drugstores. Nonetheless, applications that inform the locations of stores where consumers can purchase pharmaceuticals mostly show the locations of drugstores only. In addition, many people do not know that they can purchase drugs in retail or convenience stores. Accordingly, this paper designed and embodied an application where users can search for the locations to purchase general pharmaceuticals including retail stores and convenience stores as well as drugstores. The researcher expects that the user of an application embodied in this paper will decrease discomfort occurring when purchasing drugs. Consumption of pharmaceuticals is directly related to human life and therefore requires safety. Key-Words: Web Application, HTML5, Mobile Application, Mobile Device, Software Usability,