Thao Trinh
Overview
A second-year student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry would like to build an app to share funny images and memes with her college friends.
Design process
I used the Design Thinking method:
Design process
STAGE 1
Research Method:
- Observation - User Personas
- Consider similar Apps - Competive app
EMPATHIZE
STAGE 1
User Personas
About
- Age: 18 - 26
- Work: Collegue Students
Goals and Needs
- Share photos quickly
- Need to connect, express opinions
- Store favorite images
- Attractive, uncomplicated, easy-to-use interface.
Frustration
- Difficulty in finding and connecting with students from the same school because photo-sharing apps have a large number of users.
- Share informations with insecure friends
- Delay in updating school activities, trends other students are interested in.
EMPATHIZE
STAGE 1
Consider Similar app
Some images sharing apps are available in the market
- Instagram
- Google Image
- Pinterest
- CSCO
- We heart it
Tasks
- Review the features of these apps
- Highlights, limitations, unique characteristics of each app that can attract users
- Available functions
DEFINE
STAGE 2
User's Needs
- Share photos and memes among students.
- Photos that are liked and interacted by many people will appear first
- Discuss, exchange ideas about images and memes
- Follow your favorite student accounts, make friends
- Update interactively for photos shared by yourself quickly
- Easy image search
- Share images, not only on the app but also on other platforms.
- Photos are stored, sorted and classified clearly
- Privacy when sharing image
- Invite friends to join the app
- Adjust image before posting (Filter, crop, add text,..)
- Messages
- Popular chart (to see who has the most followers, who have the most upvote images,...
IDEATE
STAGE 3
Design Solutions
- Sharing Images is the main Function of the app.
- Add multiple pictures at once
- Short description lines are attached to the image, add Tags to easily categorize, search and share emotions.
- Under each image there will have features:
+ Comments section: for users to discuss and give opinions.
+ Upvote and downvote sections: to express feelings with images, photos with the most upvotes will appear first and last, images with many downvotes will appear last.
+ Share section: To share images
+ Image save: To save images to personal folders. In the save section except for personal images, users can create folders….
- There is a Search tab for users to easily search for the image they need (Searching by username, tags and image description)
- There is a feature to follow other users to follow and make friends
- Privacy: Besides only students can join, you can choose the users who can see the images you post
- There is invite friends feature
- Adjust image before posting feature (Crop, filter, add text)
- Sending messages between users
- Create a user rating features.
IDEATE
STAGE 3
Priority matrix
PROTOTYPE
STAGE 4
App Structure
WIREFRAME
STAGE 4
