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Process - Customer Discovery (3, five min calls) - Problem/Solution Mapping - Brand/Concept Exploration - Architecture Mindmapping - Analog Sketching - Omnigraffle wireframing - Illustrator Design (icons, etc.) User Interaction Overview Design Concept When I was considering the functionality for this app, I ultimately decided on a concept that was more open ended than just reunions. My goal was to design a consumer product that fulfilled the stated requirements, but was also useful to as many people as possible, including myself. Ultimately I arrived on the concept of a "Getaway". A getaway is any organized trip for your friends, which my be a reunion, but also might just be a weekend trip to Tahoe or a family vacation. Most of the user interactions presented herein are fairly standard. The only complex interaction is the screen showing a calendar. This would allow the user to touch a start date and drag to the end date. After which, a new date would be populated below as a poll option. This step could be repeated as many times as desired. Other than that, the menu is visible at any time by gesturing to the right. Also to note, the financial reconciliation feature would require a very simple algorithm that would determine the total amount owed by each participant, and then pair people who paid more and less than that amount to be reconciled using Venmo's Payment API. Given the limited scope of this project, I wanted to limit the functionality to only one additional feature beyond the requirements, which I ultimately decided from a few customer discovery calls should be related to how a group deals with the financial details of a shared getaway. The flow presented in this deck also assumes two general types of users: getaway hosts and getaway guests. This flow was created from the view of a host, to show additional functionality. Also, to note, I went ahead and designed higher fidelity mock-ups of all screens. Being that this is not intended for production, it actually isn't significantly faster for me to do just wireframes. It is however, significantly more fun to end up with something that has real emotional appeal.
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Process
- Customer Discovery (3, five min calls)- Problem/Solution Mapping- Brand/Concept Exploration- Architecture Mindmapping- Analog Sketching- Omnigraffle wireframing- Illustrator Design (icons, etc.)
User InteractionOverviewDesign Concept
When I was considering the functionalityfor this app, I ultimately decided on a concept that was more open ended than just reunions. My goal was to design a consumer product that fulfilled the stated requirements, but was also useful to as many people as possible, including myself. Ultimately I arrived on the concept of a "Getaway". A getaway is any organized trip for your friends, which my be a reunion, but also might just be a weekend trip to Tahoe or a family vacation.
Most of the user interactions presented herein are fairly standard. The only complex interaction is the screen showing a calendar. This would allow the user to touch a start date and drag to the end date. After which, a new date would be populated below as a poll option. This step could be repeated as many times as desired.
Other than that, the menu is visible at any time by gesturing to the right.
Also to note, the financial reconciliation feature would require a very simple algorithm that would determine the total amount owed by each participant, and then pair people who paid more and less than that amount to be reconciled using Venmo's Payment API.
Given the limited scope of this project, I wanted to limit the functionality to only one additional feature beyond the requirements, which I ultimately decided from a few customer discovery calls should be related to how a group deals with the financial details of a shared getaway.
The flow presented in this deck also assumes two general types of users: getaway hosts and getaway guests. This flow was created from the view of a host, to show additional functionality.
Also, to note, I went ahead and designed higher fidelity mock-ups of all screens. Being that this is not intended for production, it actually isn't significantly faster for me to do just wireframes. It is however, significantly more fun to end up with something that has real emotional appeal.
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A Getaway is an organized trip for you and your friends.
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Working is fun, but not as fun a skiing!Before the snow melts, our team wants to take a long weekend and hit the slopes.
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Working is fun, but not as fun a skiing!Before the snow melts, our team will take a long weekend and hit the slopes.
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3:42 pm
I just saw this rad AirBnb in Tahoe.
3:43 pm
Lake Tahoe's Best * Blue Jay Lodge
Boating is to Carnelian Bay what blue is to Lake Tahoe. Come, kick...
4:15 pm
I love it!!!
4:30 pm
I'm down :)
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A March 4th – March 5th
B March 12th – March 13th
C March 26th – March 27th
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A Lake Tahoe, California
B Park City, Utah
C Aspen, Colorado
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$1200.68 (3 items)
$221.34 (1 items)
$0 (0 items)
$446.68 (2 items)
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$311.45 per person
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$1868.70 6
You owe Devin $266.33
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Working is fun, but not as fun a skiing!Before the snow melts, our team will take a long weekend and hit the slopes.
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Lion IsisView Profile
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3:42 pm
I just saw this rad AirBnb in Tahoe.
3:43 pm
Lake Tahoe's Best * Blue Jay Lodge
Boating is to Carnelian Bay what blue is to Lake Tahoe. Come, kick...
4:15 pm
I love it!!!
4:30 pm
I'm down :)
Lion Isis
Working is fun, but not as fun a skiing!Before the snow melts, our team wants to take a long weekend and hit the slopes.
Work Ski Getaway
3:42 pm
Sweet! Yeah, I think Tahoe is it.
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A Lake Tahoe, California
B Park City, Utah
C Aspen, Colorado
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