The actions

We began the project by meeting with our client to determine what expectations and non-negotiables they had for the application as well as where our team had freedom for creativity. After establishing guidelines and a contract with our client, we developed user personas and identified user stories. Our team believed that the majority of users would be residents in their late teens to late twenties who lived in-town in Atlanta (locally known as “within the Perimeter”). With personas and stories created, we produced concepts for the user interface by drawing up ideas on a whiteboard together. As we did this, we were also able to determine what features our team would like to prioritize and how these features would interact. With this information, we were able to put together and lo-fidelity pen and paper prototype.

Using the pen and paper prototype, we conducted five usability tests to ensure that our designs were effective with target users. In these tests, we asked the users to complete five tasks and to walk us through their thoughts as they progressed through each task, which included: logging in, creating an account, creating a tour of art, finding art nearby, and submitting art. During these tests, we recorded the number of tests completed, time to complete each task, and any errors that occurred, as well as general feedback on the process.

Using the information gathered from these tests, we were able to identify some issues with our designs, such as the layout and process of logging and the usability of the neighborhood screen. After these issues were identified, we refined our pen and paper prototype and every screen was converted to an interactive, hi-fidelity prototype in Sketch.

With a refined, hi-fidelity prototype to reference, we began implementing all features as an Android application. The app has since been updated and published to the Google Play Store.