App Research
Updates To Nav Map
Above is the App Navigation Map, however with changes to structure, to aid the app to be less complicated (Less options), and easier to use, as too many subheadings can be overwhelming and confusing for people, e.g. According to Medium:
“When users are presented with too many options, they can become overwhelmed and indecisive. This can lead to them abandoning the task or making a poor decision.”
Further Wireframes Ideas/Brainstorming
Here are Low-Fid Wireframes that came early on in the process of reiterating the app designs, and considering how certain pages might function best, as well as playing around with ideas of responsive design (perhaps confirmation messages to put the users at ease after purchasing tickets)
Re-visiting and re-thinking App Problem Space/ Customer Needs
This is a mind map where I re-visited customer’s needs and wants.
Rejected Secondary Functionality Ideas For App
In the early stages of the project I had an idea to add secondary functionality of being a tree identification app, in order to draw in a larger and broader audience for the festival, however, upon realising the Website will most likely be the first landing page for people, rather than the App, i felt it would be an inefficient use of time.
User Research
For my user research I chose to ask my peers this time rather than ask people online who can be unhelpful due to unkind comments, so the demographic I asked is much smaller this time, however I considered all of the constructive criticism that was given to me for both website and app; E.g. Someone said that the UI would look better with a logo, of which I decided to add an icon on each screen to represent the Festival Logo.
Another user also said that they enjoyed the colour schemes of my first low fidelity wireframes, and so I made the design decision to keep these green colours as people found them to work well together, and found the fonts easy to read.
I noticed mid way through my Figma prototypes that if my app was to have shop features such as the ability to purchase a ticket, then it would most likely need a cart icon, to take users to their cart, and so i decided to add this in as it would be crucial to the Users needs and wants.
Card Style Images
The design choice to use a card style UI for the Gallery page, and any other images, has been chosen due to their simplicity, clean appearance, and familiarity, as most people are used to seeing this card style design from popular websites such as Pinterest, and Instagram. According to Justmind:
“Nowadays, we can safely say that cards have become a design staple across websites and mobile app UIs. And there are good reasons for it. Card UI designs are simple, intuitive and aesthetically pleasing.”
This falls in line with the UX design law applied to this project which is ‘Jakob’s Law’, the ease of using something familiar.
Tab Order and Information Architecture Notes
It can be seen that through IA, the Users can find what they need most, quickly, and so I did some notes on tab order before doing the prototypes. In addition to this Itmagination states that:
“By keeping your information architecture logical and consistent (across pages and sections and with use of page or section templates), you put users at ease and give them confidence”
Harvard References
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