Design Process

PickUp App UI Curation

Overview

PickUp was a design project that originated in my academic studies and later evolved into a fully realized and independent endeavor. This is a comprehensive review of my design process where I was tasked to prototype and design a UI for a collaborative social media application that I call, PickUp

Roles & Responsibilties

  • UI Design
  • UX Research
  • UX Prototyping

Project Context

  • January 2022 - June 2022
  • UI/UX Engineer

Tools Used

  • Figma
  • Creative Suite

Challenge

The PickUp app is a social and collaborative hub for basketball players to join and play games locally. The main goal of this assignment was to create an app where users can collaborate with others.

Process

Research

  • Define Project Scope
  • User Interviews
  • User Insights
  • User Analytics
  • User Painpoints

Understanding Users

  • Personas
  • User Journey Mapping
  • Content Mapping
  • Information Architecture

Design

  • Sketching
  • Preliminary Wireframes

Iteration

  • Refined Wireframes
  • Hi Fidelity Prototypes
  • Interaction Design

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