Role: UX Designer
Time to read: 5-7 mins
Duration: 1 month
Finding sports-games nearby using the Sportby application
Problem overview
Millions of people worldwide, play sports regularly. They make their plans or have specific routines on how and when they will play their desired sports.
According to my experience, the players who try to make regular plans of their sports or players who are trying to find games of any sports to play nearby, face unpleasant situations and unsuccessful scenarios on a regular basis.
All the users are using Social Media or calling to create their desired plans and are facing the same issues. Creating a product to create a similar space of networking between nearby players and helping them to create their own games successfully is a challenge in itself.
Discovery: Research & Analysis
Research on this study began with interviewing our key users : players who play regularly and create regular plans.
The Research was done in 2 stages :
- Semi-structured interview
- Surveys
Participants were recruited on the basis of a screening:
- should play at least 1 time a week
Semi-Structured Interview
4 Participants were recruited in this process.The Participants were interviewed on the basis of sporting plans, on their needs, pain points, and how they create their regular plans near their locations .
Key findings through interviews
Survey
To confirm our findings from the semi-structured interviews and to get a broader, more insightful view, survey was conducted. 50 participants were recruited for the same.
Key findings through survey
Design: Concepts and Sketching
The Design, according to our research was supposed to be simple and mainly, should get the work done successfully.
Flows and wireframes
Prototype
The Main High Fidelity Screen Mockups are attached below. These mockups were created in Figma. These include the following design flows, creating a game flow and finding a game flow
The project’s high fidelity prototype can be accessed here.
Testing
I did some Usability Testing through a tool known as LookBack and got some insightful feedback.
Test insights
The Following are the insights relating to the specific tasks that were instructed to the users :
Iterations
We got a few insights through the testing and we tried to go through minor changes that apply.
We found out that our welcome page was not that accessible and we made a few changes in that regard.
The Welcome Screen was checked through the contrast checker of the website, source
The results were positive with respect to the color combinations.
After going through the design flows again, we tried to work around the changes in the ‘ Find a Game’ flow. We thought of a more simple way to make it work for the users.
Through our insights, we found that there were a few minor errors in this screen.
According to the WCAG web principles, the product should be perceivable and understandable. Also, The placement and the sizes of both the buttons was changed.
Solution and Impact Overview
Our final solution allowed the users to have a space and way to connect with nearby people. It provided them with a solution to their current frustrations of inability to find people to play with. The product, will further, help them to gain exposure and simplicity for their tasks. The product will launch soon.
That’s all, folks!
If you’re reading this, then thank you so much for sticking to the end. I really enjoyed working on this project.