PROJECTChallenge: Eden currently has a skeleton site that doesn’t clearly definite its services, is hard to navigate, and doesn’t build trust with its users.
Solution: Designed an entirely new site that incorporated features that meet needs of users—a site that builds trust, humanizes the experience, and provides relevant content. |
TEAMPart of a 3-person UX design team that designed the Eden site.
We worked together on applying the UX design process--user research and analysis, wireframes, user testing, and rapid prototyping—to develop Eden's MVP, which is currently being developed. |
COMPANYEden is an interactive online community for people living with chronic illnesses.
Its site allows users to get helpful information about their condition and connect with others who are going through the same experience. |
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Sketch 3
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Invision
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Gliffy
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Photoshop
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Google Drive
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Google Docs
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RESEARCH
Sent out a survey via Google Forms to gather information on demographics and travel—how often they travel, websites and apps they use to plan travel, and the type of travel planner they are.
Distilled the most common answers from 50+ responses; Followed-up with target participants via an in-person interview or open-ended survey. We wanted to know about their last trip—what they did, how they found out about those things, and how they kept track of them. We asked them about technology they traveled with and how they interacted with their devices. |
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Consolidated and analyzed results from interviews and surveys to create a user persona and develop a scenario.
We made sure to consider details like how often she travels, travel apps she uses, and her frustrations with the current way of planning travel. This helped us design a solution that would solve specific problems for a specific type of user. |
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What types of travel and activities organizing apps are already out there? Our team did a C&CA to get a good grasp on what already exists and the types of features each had in comparison to one another.
By doing this, we were able to distill good ideas for features and ways of organizing events and activities that may work for the Airbnb iOS app and Apple Watch design solution. |
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Card Sort 1
To figure out where it would make sense for people to start planning activities on the Airbnb app. Card Sort 2 To understand how people categorized activities and events to do when traveling. We had some activities written out, and we asked people to group the activities and title each of the groups. Based on these two card sorts, we figured where to put the “THINGS TO DO” section on the app and the activities categorization: culture, outdoors, eat/drink, nightlife, shopping |
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DESIGN
We used markers and a whiteboard to brainstorm about our user flow based on the user scenario.
This step helped our team flush out the details for every interface and element of the app that our user would interact with. |
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DESIGN & TESTING
Applying lean UX, our team sketched wireframes to quickly test, validate, and move on to digital wireframes.
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User testing was vital to getting feedback for our wireframes. First, we tested sketched wireframes.
From testing our sketched wireframes, we learned that users wanted to have a choice of planning a trip either by selecting a place to stay OR by selecting activities around an area. We also learned that users wanted the ability to personalize their trip by naming it. This becomes helpful when planning multiple trips simultaneously, especially if the trips are within the same city. Based on that feedback, we design digital wireframes for the next series of testing. |
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We used Sketch 3 and Adobe Illustrator to design high-fidelity digital wireframes that matched the current Airbnb app. The wireframes were put into InVision to make it into a clickable prototype.
We did multiple rounds of user testing and iterated on the design based on user feedback. |
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RESULTS
We took a great app and made it even better. By adding features for users to learn about activities and events happening around the area they are traveling, as well as a personalized way to keep track of that information, users can now easily plan and organize both travel activities and lodging in one app. They can even set up reminders for activities based on location or time!
Adding these features, while adhering to Airbnb’s simple and clean design, we were able to add value (not clutter) to an app that was already super useful. Not only did this solution provide a better user experience, but it also exemplified what Airbnb is all about--feeling at home wherever you are.
Adding these features, while adhering to Airbnb’s simple and clean design, we were able to add value (not clutter) to an app that was already super useful. Not only did this solution provide a better user experience, but it also exemplified what Airbnb is all about--feeling at home wherever you are.
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