Lizhen Zhu, 2019 Design Exercise, Option 2
Orientation Events Discovery App
Open Sesame
Role:
UX/ UI Designer;
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Project Aspects:
User Personas | Journey Maps | User Flows | Sketching and Storyboarding | Visual/Interface Design | Low - Mid - High-Fidelity Wireframes | Prototypes | Mockups | Usability Testing
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Tools:
Sketch | InVision | After Effects | Photoshop
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Timeline:
Jan 30 – Feb 5 2019 (6 days),
individual project.
Project Brief:
The project focuses on experience for students to discover orientation events and craft a visual system to accommodate different types of events: sports, music, visual arts, social groups, and volunteering events. It provides high-fidelity mocks for searching, browsing, and viewing the details for these different events.
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Objective:
Have you ever felt lost in a new school and eager to access resources that you needed? Do you want to personalize your daily orientation routine and get connected in a bigger community? This mobile event app “open sesame” will help you get involved, stay organized, access resources and get connected during orientation.
Problem:
As new students, users usually don't have the information about the time, place and events during the orientation.
User Needs:
1. A clear instruction and detailed information
2. Personalize user's daily routine.
3. Make social connections during the process.
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Use this app to get involved, stay organized, access
resources and get connected during orientation.
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Why this project
We live in a world increasingly dominated by mobile technology, where mobile devices are always at hand to enhance many of our everyday experiences: simplifying tasks, providing useful information and providing entertainment.
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As a freshman, this event application will enable you search, browse and view details of events , which will improve engagement and interaction during the orientation; help you organize your agenda with appropriate information and scaffolding, allowing attendees to get the most out of the event.
User Persona
Paper Sketch
Based on user's pain point, I built wireframe flow in 2 days, mainly divided the app into 4 functional pages based on the user needs:
1. menu and search
2. individual time-line
3. map and explore
4. picture and social connection
MAIN FEATURES
EVENT DETAILS
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Detailed event information that guide users to make most out of their time.
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Map and group chat are provided.
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Click 'interested' to add it on schedule.
CUSTOMIZED TIME-LINE
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Schedule management page keep track of your own daily schedule.
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Add or delete events to make your own customized time-line.
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Linked to user's calendar to inform user when event starts.
SHARE YOUR MOMENT
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Capture and share the orientation moment.
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Discover events and people that user feel interested.
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Get connected to the wider social networks within the campus.
LIST OF EVENTS
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All the events are filtered by characteristics.
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List latest details of all kinds of events( time, place, popularity).
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Show important orientation events to plan and enhance user's orientation experience.
EVENT EXPLORE
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Join coolest event near you.
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Group that best matches your taste.
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Meet people with same interest with you.
FIND ONGOING EVETS NEARBY
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Location based and time based events search.
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Filtering the distance on the map helps users to narrow the scope.
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Find what events are happening on the campus, making use of the fragmented time.
WATCH THE
USER FLOW
