Project Context
ISDI - UI/UX
Time Frame - Senior Year, 2021 ( 4 Weeks)
Team Members - Anantika Sethi, Riya Kamdar, Rohan Marathe, Rushabh Kulkarni & Purva Parab
My role - UI Design, Ideations Business Strategy & Visuals
Spark - A Parking System for
urban India
An app that assists users to locate and navigate to the on-street as well as off-street parking slots in the proximity of wherever they are, as well as pre-book through the app or book on the spot, based on the availability at any given point of time at paid parking spaces notified by the app.
Research
Project Timeline
With limited time in our hands, we divided the work into different stages and created a timeline for the team to stick to. This helped us complete the project within the time span.
Decluttering and organizing traffic in a country where number of four-wheelers is knocking doors at 50 million...
This app would help users to access and assist them to follow required local rules and regulations for parking in any particular space at a given point of time, hence ensuring legal and safety measures in required scenarios.
Our Parking Structure
We've got three tier parking -
Park in the designated free parking spots
Here we map on-street and free parking spaces in the proximity of where the user and display the chances of him getting a parking space there using real-time data.
Pay And Park
Mapping the paid parking zones whether it be public or private and giving an option for the user to book it on the go or prebook it depending upon various factors.
Pro Parking for our users
Private onboarded partners who provide premium parking options with exclusive facilities
After the basic flow diagram, we began to further dig deeper and create the site map which would help us work on the wire frames and determine the screens needed.
Information Architecture
& Site Map
This model shows the high-level overview of the Spark system and how it would integrate into the user’s life. This helped us strategise how could we create different sprints for the SPARK model.
Stage- Wireframing
Now that we had an idea from our minimum viable prototype, we sketched out some ideas and thought about what our app and user interface might look like. This helped us find our own loop holes and then move on to the high fidelity wireframes.
Based on the user flow diagram, we created wireframes and a mid-fi prototype in XD to use for usability testing.
Design Response
A simple app for everday users who are struggling to find a parking space in the crowded streets on mumbai
Localised suggestions, preferences (paid/free), and availability with real-time data flow with partnered locations. It also offers Parking on-the-go to avoid crusing issue.
Visual System
We created a visual system that would be incorporated in the visuals and the app across the platform. We wanted to go for something that was eye catchy and yet seem soothing. After studying different colour patterns and their reference we picked the following colour scheme for our system.
Business System
We wanted to create the entire system. For that we even touched upon the business system model and how the entire project would generate reveune to self sustain the proposed parking mode.
Mind Mapping
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Reflections
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Besides solving and sapce and model for the parking system, we even had to think from the users point of view. How would they react to this new parking system. What would be the challenges for them? How would it benefit them. Our interviews and talking to users helped us understand the entire system and improve our design concept
Think on broader lines
While our competitive analysis did look at other countries and solutions that exist, it not necessailry was something that would work in the Indian Market hence we could not ger distracted by other parking models that are successfully being used in other countries.
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