R.HM
What's my group?
Group study mobile app was the result of a team collaboration project that was undertaken by myself and a group of three other designers.my group is an iOS mobile app that helps students to find appropriate group study events to join and also create their own group study event and invite classmate.
Responsibilities
- Collaborated with group of 5 to interview people
- Created user storyboard to define app flow
- Created wireframe and prototype
- Created a mockup to show the full product experience.
Process
01 Interview
03 Storyboard
05 Prototype
07 feedback and iterate
02 Ideation
04 Wireframe
06 User test
08 Mockup design
01 Interview
The first step of the design process involved user interviews to understand how group study event happen, what's users behaved and what's their needs. I believe it’s important to get this information early on in the process, before having an idea or prototyping.After analyzing this insights, we began to conceptualize the solution, focusing on user flows and wireframe to give us a way to iterate faster through ideas.
Interviewed audience
The interview sample took into account men and women aged from 17 to 34, university and college students in different field.The interview took approximately 30 minutes and included topics to get to the core of what users are trying to do and what their problems are by asking some questions:
- Do you have group study experience?
- What's type of people do you prefer to study with?
- What's the hard part of create a group for study ?
- How you invite people to do group study?
- What's important about a group that you want to study with?
- What's the matter about the group you want to join (like number of members, time ..)?
Interview insight
Interviewee Traits
30 participent
%70 Male
%30 Female
%80
Have group study experience
%80
Perffer to do group study
%70
Use phone call or sms to invite people to group study
What was the research outcome?
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1.people want to do group study but bringing people together it's hard because everybody has different schedule
2.people like to do group study with somebody who are in same university, class or field
3.people care about time, location, topic and group creator information when want to join a group
The common problem from our notes was the issue of scheduling.
everyone commented on how everyone’s schedule was different and it was difficult to get
everyone together.
Problem
Solution
Make a platform like to bring university and college students together that can find all group study events and also create own events by a few steps.
02 Ideation
Chosen top idea from over 200 ideation was make an app which is specific for a school or university.Users sign in by student number and reach out to group study events which were created by another student with specific topic time, location and date.they can join or can make own group study event and invite friends
directly by app.
03 Storyboarding
By creating storyboard we identified experience when a student want to do group study and find an appropriate group to join or create own event and invite their friends
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1.want to do group study but couldn't find any body
he sent message to friends some of them didn't replay and most of them didn't have time or same topic for group study.
2.he find my group app
Ok, I can find group study which is match of my topic and free time. he joined to one of this group and his request accepted during a few minutes.
3. create own group study event
Great, now I create my own group study for next week and invite my friends
The storyboard make some issues obvious for us in early stage of process
- How dose the app identify the user as a real student?
- Is this app specific for a university and college or all of the students can use this app?
Issues
key screen of app
1.Screen that represent all group study event for a university or college
2.Screen to create group study event
3.Screen that represent notification accept or decline event
04 User flow
User flows that came out from storyboard helped us to identify key feature in app and the screens to focus on first
04 Wireframe
Based on user flow we created the wireframe to test the product with real users
05 Prototype
First Low Fidelity Prototype
Second Prototype
06 Usability test
We used the wireframe above, I created a low-fidelity prototype from Sketch. we choose 4 target user at a coffee shop to participate in our moderated usability test. we had them interact with the prototype on our laptop while engaging in 2 scenarios. Below are the 2 scenarios that we had.
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
It's your final exam week and you want to do group study with somebody who is from your university and has the same topic to study, you just want to find an appropriate group to join in.
You want to create your own group study event for next test and invite your classmates.
07 feedback and iterate
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Features that worked well:
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The student id number was a convenient way to access the database of the college student info so that the student did not have to tediously enter all their details.
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Having a username and password helped to minimize remembering a long student id number each time they wanted to use the app.
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The filtration system assisted the users to fine tune their search and enable them to find exactly what they were looking for in regards to topic/subject, time/date, people and location.
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The user really understood the concept that invites and replies were being sent via texting alerts.
2. Features that did not work well:
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For some of the users there was a “Gulf of Execution” issue of what “scheduled events” meant. Though the users were correct in selecting this for some they were not sure it would produce their desired results until AFTER they clicked on it.
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Another issue for one was uncertainty if the Group Study App allowed to leave some filtration parameters unedited (blank)
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08 Mockup Design
Task 1: First time user sign up
Task 2: Join to group study event
Event list page
Tap on information
Check group creator
Tap to join
Task3: Join to group study event by using filter option
Event list page
Use filter
Task 4: Add group study event
Add event page
Enter informations
Send
