UXDI-5 Project 1: My ‘Avid Traveler’ App
A smart app that caters to your preferences and gives freedom and flexibility in planning trips.
Oftentimes we find it a hassle to book tickets, arrange itineraries and search for a good experience for our next travel destination.
Avid Traveler enables the user to set preferred activities when planning for a trip and allows freedom to choose preferred flights with fuss-free booking.
Now how does an app come to fruition? Initially, being naive, I thought it was just based on the app designer and developer. After going through the process and understanding more about UX, it made me realise the importance of the user in developing apps. Here are the steps I took to create the prototype. User Research …show more content…
It then led to a problem statement. By initially grouping them by pains, pleasure, context and behaviours, I then saw patterns that can be crafted with imagining the user’s perspective by using the “I” statement. This discovery was a result of assistance from fellow mates and by observing them pinning their post-its on the wall and asking them their thought process, it was extremely helpful that they were kind enough to spare their time to share what they were …show more content…
I utilised a Word Cloud generator, it gave me a visual pattern based on frequency of words. I had to remind myself that the Word Cloud was just a secondary additional step that serves as a reinforcing filter. As the Word Cloud could be misrepresented or (worse) give an inaccurate ideation of the findings.
My main focus is more on the information from the users perspective, a result of the Affinity Mapping process.
1 of the Word Cloud generator that I explored with which gave me a pattern but not 100% useful
Problem Statement
“I want to have my own travel plan fuss-free and customised based on my own preferences.”
Solution Statement
“An app that caters to my preferences and gives me freedom and flexibility in planning my travels”
Enter the User Flow (The third step)
Once I’ve ascertained the findings required that enabled me to identify the possible solution, I started to sketch out the user
A smart app that caters to your preferences and gives freedom and flexibility in planning trips.
Oftentimes we find it a hassle to book tickets, arrange itineraries and search for a good experience for our next travel destination.
Avid Traveler enables the user to set preferred activities when planning for a trip and allows freedom to choose preferred flights with fuss-free booking.
Now how does an app come to fruition? Initially, being naive, I thought it was just based on the app designer and developer. After going through the process and understanding more about UX, it made me realise the importance of the user in developing apps. Here are the steps I took to create the prototype. User Research …show more content…
It then led to a problem statement. By initially grouping them by pains, pleasure, context and behaviours, I then saw patterns that can be crafted with imagining the user’s perspective by using the “I” statement. This discovery was a result of assistance from fellow mates and by observing them pinning their post-its on the wall and asking them their thought process, it was extremely helpful that they were kind enough to spare their time to share what they were …show more content…
I utilised a Word Cloud generator, it gave me a visual pattern based on frequency of words. I had to remind myself that the Word Cloud was just a secondary additional step that serves as a reinforcing filter. As the Word Cloud could be misrepresented or (worse) give an inaccurate ideation of the findings.
My main focus is more on the information from the users perspective, a result of the Affinity Mapping process.
1 of the Word Cloud generator that I explored with which gave me a pattern but not 100% useful
Problem Statement
“I want to have my own travel plan fuss-free and customised based on my own preferences.”
Solution Statement
“An app that caters to my preferences and gives me freedom and flexibility in planning my travels”
Enter the User Flow (The third step)
Once I’ve ascertained the findings required that enabled me to identify the possible solution, I started to sketch out the user