Reward
Commute Pal was a rewarded project at the Figmathon Event, a 48- hours hackathon that was hosted by Figma and UX@UW Club at the University of Washington (UW) in 2022. Commute Pal was a finalist and in the top 9 teams out of 150 participants.
My Role:
Team:
UX/UI Designer
Moses W, Lucy Y, Rui Li,
Charis L
Tools used:
Figma, Miro, OptimalWorkshop, Excel, Adobe Creative Suite
Tasks I performed:
User Interview, Research, Information Architecture, , Wireframing, Prototyping, and First-click testing.
Context
The prompt of this hackathon was “How might We design a product to better service UW community " We started the process by researching what are the main pain points that students at UW are facing. Through our brainstorm, commuting is always a pain among students.
Problem
Research shows that over 56 percent of college students own a car. However, as on campus parking is always a pain and gas prices are increasing this year, students who live off campus are looking for peers to carpool to school.
Through our real life experiences as students, most schoolmates live in different areas and have different class schedules. Some live in the same area but may not be willing to share a ride.
It’s a pain to find ride-share participants and we lack an interior channel for students to find peers who are willing to share rides and live in the same area.
Solution
We created Commute Pal, an interior mobile application aimed at matching ride-sharing commuters for students at UW.
Highlights mockups screens
landing pages
For first-timers, these landing pages explain guidelines to know how commutePal works
Match feature
For first-timers, this appears on the signup path, simply insert the commute route, schedule, and times. Commute Pal will match you with the group's shared needs with you.
You can skip and fill them out later.
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Home screen
Once users create an account successfully, they will land on the homepage and be able to explore all the commute groups that matched with them based on their customized info.
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On this group info card users will find the group's commute route, schedule, and times. we match you with groups based on the similarity of your info. If users see a group they are interested to join, click on the chat with group to send a join group request.
Users can also create their own group by click the circle shape icon on the middle of the Navi bar
Hackathon Completed
With a time constraint, we submitted this first hi-fi version to the judges. 2 days of hard work had paid off, happily we were the finalist among 150 participants.