RoomOwl

UI/UX Design • User Research

Role
UI/UX Designer and User Researcher

Team
Myself, Jasmine Lin, Kendal Arellano

Timeline
October-December 2022

Tools
Figma, Miro

The Problem

Every individual has their own desires when apartment searching. Add additional roommates into the mix, and finding the perfect apartment for everyone becomes even more of a difficult process. 

Our Approach

Use a recommender system to analyze each individual’s desires in an apartment and find options that meet the criteria of every roommate group that searches together. 

Mood Board

The first step in our design process is building a mood board to establish the style and incorporate elements that would be useful for our recommender system.

Recommender Systems

Personas

Card Sorting Analysis

We created the cards based on characteristics from our personas and then created categories for others to sort them.

This helps us understand how to organize the information architecture and see how people perceive information groupings.

Explore our Miro board here.

Ideation

From our research insights, we found patterns of where users group features together and used these patterns to shape our information architecture.

Due to the fast-paced class, we jumped straight into high-fidelity designs and rapid prototyping after gathering insights from card sorting.

Visual Design

High-Fidelity Designs

Key Features

  • Browse group or individual recommendations based on user preferences

  • Group recommendations consider all member preferences to provide apartments that match individual needs

  • Favorite locations to save for later

Explore our prototype here.

Reflections

As one of my first full UX projects, I learned about the research process and how important it is to organize the interface based on user input.

I also thought it was fun to experiment with different forms of user research, such as card sorting, to get helpful insights that guided our design decisions.

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