Interaction Design / Branding / Design Research / Motion Design / Spacial Design / Social Design / App Design
The scout app interface from the login screen to the individual profiles of specific locations.
This project is about creating an app interface that people can use for their daily life. As an aspiring photographer, I find it difficult to find locations for photoshoots, so I created an app that scouts locations based on social media tagging and sharing.
The app includes different categories of locations including: color, occasion, style of shoot, or popular/recommended locations. You are also able to see user uploaded content of the tagged locations. There are also small icons that indicate how busy the area is, how dangerous it is, and whether or not it's accessible. Additionally, users will be able to friend other people and scroll through a "feed" of photos that their friends upload, sharing cool locations in the area or abroad.
When you get to the profile of a specific location, the user can see associated words that describe the type of place, reviews from past visitors/photo-takers/film-makers, and directions to the spot from their current location.
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Later in the semester, we were tasked in created a data visualization interface that would be installed in the Raleigh area showing some sort of interesting data set. I decided to continue the Scout app but create local kiosks that would be located in three to four locations in the Raleigh-Durham area.
Users would be able to find them and filter all the photo hotspots in the Raleigh area. They'd also be able to download the app from a QR-code on the kiosk so they can take the hunt on-the-go! It is different than the app in that it shows red circular regions where photos are tagged the most. For example, there is a large red region around North Carolina State University, but there are smaller opaque regions within it such as the Memorial Bell Tower or Pullen Park, that have more photos taken at those specific locations than the university as a whole.
The weather for Raleigh will be shown on the side as well as the user's current location. When you tap on a region, a brief summary, photos from the location, and the lighting/breeze/rain conditions will appear. This gives photographers the ideal information to decide where and when to explore the spot.
The goal of this interface is to encourage exploration of popular spots in Raleigh and serve as a guide for locals and tourists, professional photographers or not. By showing the data of number of photos taken in certain regions, people can immediately tell where are the best places to go for pictures or exploration!
Rendering of the Kiosk in Downtown Raleigh
As a continuation of this project, I re-designed the app interface to be simpler and more user-friendly. By simplifying the features as well as the categories, users will be able to better navigate the application and easily use it for its initial purpose- to find locations to take pictures and film. The app is also prototyped into InVision and Principle.
Clip of user interaction.