playdate! app - ux di london 2014 - week1 project
DESCRIPTION
Project developed for GA UXDi class, London, June 2014 - week 1. Project Brief: design an app for a classmate by putting into practice user interview, prototyping, sketching and prototyping on paper and usability testing principles leant during the first week of the course. Follow my UX notebook martafioni.tumblr.comTRANSCRIPT
Playdate Marta Fioni
UX Di London summer 2014
Meet Bill• Creative professional, with
teaching background • Father of Luca, 3 years old • Disillusioned with institutional
educational methods, believes families and peers are the best teachers
Playing is not easy
• Bill wants Luca to play with other kids, but is missing lots of play dates!
• Council playgroups are not fully digitalised • Informal meetings with other parents happen last minute
Playdate
• A kids' events app
• easy to use
• only provides relevant information
– Bill
‘'Schools are negative environments. When your kids are most plastic, you send them to be raised by
stressed professionals, while their mother can do a much better job”
User interview
Research and Testing
• In the early stages of research, Bill referred to interfaces he is familiar with (e.g. Android calendar, City mapper, Meetup)
• Bill suggested specific design elements (navigation bar, calendar icons) and un-validated features (organisers list, friends list, event categories)
• The design went through six full iterations
• The final prototype has been tested with external stakeholders
participatory design: bill sketched an idea for ordering events
Iterations 1 2 3
4 5 6
Six consequential reiterations of the same opening scene
Bill finds the most popular event of the day, joins and invites other friends
http://goo.gl/jMBoe4
Playing made easy
Learnings
Too many paper iterations made the navigation elements incoherent.
I would start prototyping on device in earlier stages
What's next
improve the experience of adding a new event
(e.g: ‘I’m going if someone else is going’, allow repeated events, etc)
Thanks Marta Fioni.tumblr.com