Ready for a hike?

Supporting seniors with digital assistant mia.

A smart assistant for seniors, supportings them step by step in their daily activities on their smartphones.

course
Application Design
team
Johanna Schopf,
Lea Voith
supervision
Rebecca Schellhorn

Just click on send grandma!
What’s the issue?

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

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the AnalYsis

The existing Outdooractive application was examined in detail using various analysis methods.

This allowed us to identify a lot of problems.
Too many hierarchy levels
Community features poorly developed
Three menu items show map view
Discover Page arouses no interest

The User

To find out which features should be implemented, we created user personas that helped us to better understand our target group of outdooractive
user need statement

An adventurous sports fan who needs personalized route recommendations that can be edited in order to plan beautiful hikes with his friends.

Who
What
Why

How might we enable Max and his friends to plan routes collaboratively.

How might we provide Max with personalized route suggestions.

How might we allow Max to personalize existing routes.

The evolution

Max and his friends go camping. They look for great hiking routes at their travel destination, which they edit collaboratively.

Based on this story, we created low and high fidelity prototypes with which we also carried out usability tests.

Sketch of Camping Friends
Sketches of Outdooractive Redesign
Wireframes of Outdooractive Redesign
Screens of Outdooractive Redesign

The delight features

The aim of the iterations was to visually present our findings in Delight Feature Screens.

When we tested the existing app, in addition to many confusing errors in the information architecture, we noticed that we were missing one thing in particular – A possibility to collaborate with each other.

Just click on send grandma!
What’s the issue?

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

Just click on send grandma!
What’s the issue?

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

In the midst of rapid progress in the digital world, those who could benefit from this development .

“I would never have thought that young people would think of us and our age group with such empathy. This experience has encouraged me to be more open about using digital devices. ”

– Julie Metzger | Testuser & Golden Treasure

The results

In the final design, we used previously defined design filters to define the look and feel of the application.

In addition, we had the opportunity to concentrate on a few micro interactions and to visualize our vision of the app in the defined screenflow.

Wizard Filter
Find suitable routes quickly
Route View
See all route details
Points of Interest
Easily add suggested POI
Groups & Chats
Edit routes collaboratively and chat

“I would never have thought that young people would think of us and our age group with such empathy. This experience has encouraged me to be more open about using digital devices. ”

– Julie Metzger | Testuser & Golden Treasure