User Experience Design - Task 3

User Experience Design - Task 3: Proposal

17/10/2023-31/10/2023 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Brigita Maria/0352958
User Experience Design / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media


Gypsy app - product page



INSTRUCTION


Process

By week 4 we were briefed and tasked to start our project on the mobile application. Step-by-step we are building up our UX research. We need to research some data and ideas on our direction for the application. Then we start to set up 3 user personas that is suitable for our application. 

So that time, our group re-firm our brand direction and the mobile app direction.

Fashion-niche: Bohemian Style

User personas(ver.1):
1. Plus sized
2. Fashionista
3. Finding Vacation Clothes

User personas (ver. 2):
1. Plus-sized influencer
2. Fashion/dress for vacation seeker
3. Bohemian Enthusiast

Then we each create each persona a board of who they are, their needs, goals, etc. Also we make the empathy map base on the user persona.

Figure 1.1 User Personas and Empathy Map

After lectures on Law of UX Design and User Journey Map. We continue with creating the User Journey Maps for each our user personas. Each of the user persona will have 2 journey map. 1st one will be their journey experiencing shopping and buying a bohemian style clothes (dress) in a retail store (offline store) and the 2nd one would be their "probable" experience on  shopping and buying the clothes in our mobile application. 

The offline store that we decided to do an onsite visit is ZARA. Although there are several stores of ZARA, they mostly have the same layout store and same user experience.

Figure 1.2 Zara Store

From the store visit we can analyze and stand in the customer's shoe their journey shopping in ZARA. 

We divided the task to each members for the user persona. But for the user journey maps we manage to do it and discuss it together in a meeting!

Figure 1.3 User Journey Map

Based on the user journey map, we start to plan out our wireframing plan and all the basis for the design of the app. Each of us made their ideas on what to have inside the app and make a rough wireframing. Then we combine it together into a cohesive 1 wireframing. 

Figure 1.4 Wireframes from each of us

The squared or boxed area is the probable layout and features that we will use for our final wireframe! This is after our discussions and agreements within the group..

Figure 1.5 Wireframe made by me

We have a meeting to discuss our wireframe together. By putting sticky notes and comments of our favorite things and things we feel like we can use and improve. 

Figure 1.6 Comments in my wireframe


Figure 1.7 Some other comments in my member's wireframe

Before continuing to the wireframe we also finalize our brand logo, color, typography and all the art direction of our application!

Each of us designed our idea on the logo/icon of the app. Then together we decided which one we will use, by discussion and polling. Though we have some disagreement on the logo style, but finally after compromising and combining our ideas we came to one final logo and color palette!

Figure 1.8 Our board on the art direction (logo ideation)


Figure 1.9 Our board on the art direction (mockup logo and color palette)

Then the process of building our application wireframe started. 


Proposal Presentation outline/guideline:

  • The proposed brand, fashion niche, the look and feel of this niche.
  • The design audit summary of existing fashion app (compiled together from the individual reports)
  • The ideal user personas and journey map (summary of the user journey map report)
  • The proposed user journey with your app and wireframe design of said app
  • Rationalize the wireframe against the proposed user journey map
  • Project timeline starting on Week 9 to 14 (14 being the final presentation)

  • We effectively divide the slides for us to do:

    About brand, Gypsy (shorten/rephrase)- GIT
    Logo Development - PIGU
    Logo Sketches  - CC
    Brand Identity [on grp chat]- GIT
    About fashion niche, look and feel (images)- GIT
    Typography [plum’s]- JH
    Colour Palette (App : White , Grey , Blek), (Icon : ?)  - PIGU

    Design Audit (5ppl)- EVERYONE
    User Persona- CC
    Journey Map- CC
    Journey Map Summary- CC
    Wireframe design- Jacq, JH, PIGU
    -onboarding, sign in, sign up
    -homepage, product list, category search, checkout
    -profile, club page
    Project timeline week 9-14 <3- GIT

    Submission


    Proposal Presentation

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