Thomso'19
Mobile app design
OVERVIEW
Thomso is the annual cultural fest organized by IIT Roorkee. It is held over a weekend in October. Packed up with various events, celebrity events,a carnival and 4 pronites. With more than 2500 students Thomso is the major event in North India.
ROLE & DURATION
UX/UI Design | IIT Roorkee
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User Research, Interaction, Prototyping, Visual Design
May -June, 2019
Description
Thomso Mobile App is created to be used during the fest. The main aim of this app is to improve the experience of the attendee by guiding and providing them with important information.
Target Audience
The target audience of the app is the college students which are about 3000 students + IITR junta. They can be divided into the following categories:
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A student in a team selected in a zonal event
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IITR student interested in attending events with friends
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A student coming to enjoying the weekend
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IITR student participating in an event
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User Research
Analysing the User
The brainstorming helped us figure out what features we can include in the application. But to have more insight we talked to past participants of the fest.
We prepared a questionnaire asking problem they faced during their stay at the fest and interviewed students with different backgrounds.
I interviewed some previous year participants from other colleges and IIT Roorkee. Broadly, 3 personas were created based on their behaviour during the fest.
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Reaching and registering on the night before.
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Searching for the hostel allotted on google maps.
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Constantly searching for event locations and timings.
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Searching for snacking and restrooms on the campus.
A student in a team selected in a zonal event:
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Ongoing events and workshop.
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Checking out the timing of the events.
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Searching for snacking points on the campus.
IITR student interested in attending events with friends:
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Ongoing events and workshop.
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Searching for the hostel alloted on google maps.
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Searching for day vice competitions to participate.
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Searching for snacking points on campus.
A student coming to enjoying the weekend:
Why Mobile App for Thomso
We identified and analysed the problems faced by students during the fest. Then, we sorted the problems into 3 categories to have a better understanding.
Final Features
Offline maps
Students can get locations of their destinations and also can locate washrooms, food outlets nearby.
Ongoing events
Giving an ongoing events list so that students can get information which can reduce time and frustration of going through a list or day vice events list
Search Event information
Students can have information about any event by providing them a search bar.
Displaying Pronites and celebrity events highlighted.
Information Architecture
Branding
Final Iterations
