Gravity is an app for skateboarders. It includes video tutorials and social platforms for skateboarders, it helps users get social with others with similar interests and learn a lot of skateboarding skills. Gravity also shows users a map of a given area with all the skate spots available.
Research / Visual system / UIUX
8 Weeks
FIGMA / AI / PS
App Design
The average skateboarder in the United States is a white male, 14 years old, and comes from a household with an average income level of $50,000 or more.
14—26 Years old
Young Age Group
1: They can't find friends who have common interests to practice together, and they lack a lot of fun.
2. They can’t find a suitable place to practice skateboarding, and they always get complaints about noise and damage.
3. They hope to learn skateboarding skills without spending too much money.
4. The skateboarding spots information provided by some apps is inaccurate and the conditions are poor, which is not suitable for practice.
5. They generally think that learning skateboarding is a bit dangerous and easy to get injured.
6. There are few applications for skateboard. The function is not comprehensive enough.
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1. Provide a large number of skateboarding teaching videos, with a very systematic classification, making it easier for beginners to learn skateboarding.
2. Gravity also shows users a map of a given area with all the skate spots available.At the same time, users can clearly understand the type and suitable level of skateboarding locations in advance.
3. The social platform provided by Gravity gives users more opportunities to meet skateboarders and find like-minded partners.
Problems:
In the initial design sketch, the screen width of the mobile phone was ignored. If the page design is too small and the content is too much, the user experience will not be very good. At the same time, because this app has more functions, how to connect these functions without making users confused, and adjusting the logical relationship between the functions is relatively complicated.
1. The body text is a bit small and looks a bit difficult. Hope it can be bigger.
2. The search bar on the homepage is not clear what can be entered. Need some hint.
3. The icons on the home panel can be expressed in a more interesting way and will be more powerful.
4. The two columns of the videos are too crowded and the content is hard to read.
5. It would be better if I can like and dislike the tutorial videos.
6. I think the functions on the home panel are a bit confused with the functions on the menu bar.
7. Hope that the video part has specific skills tips, and the map navigation part has information about each skateboard spot.
8. The map page can display a larger area, so there will be more choices for skaters.
What I have learned
In the process of doing this project, I discovered the limitations of skateboarding applications and at present, there is still a lack of more professional and authoritative skateboarding mobile phones. At the same time, through this user interview and user test, I learned how to really help skateboarders. For example, they hope to set up a social media platform with a large number of users, to get to know more skateboarders, to meet and compete together, and so on. However, the number of users of the skateboard mobile application is very small. The utilization rate is still not popular enough.
Future
I still need to do more user surveys to help me better improve the interface interaction design and usability, so that users can use it more smoothly. Others I want to get more data to help users develop better functions. Learn how to simplify the interface more and maintain the diversity of functions. Help users solve problems through design.
