Gramcity
An App to Find Photography Places

Gramcity is a tool that wants to help users find good photo-taking places and locations, and also wants to create a user community for them to find & share their favorite locations.

It is a modified google ventures design sprint challenge from Bitesize ux. I worked on it as one project at Springboard.

MY ROLE

Problem defining, research synthesizing, journey map, sketch, storyboard, wireframe, porotype, usability testing

MENTOR

Noemi Selisker

TYPE

1 Week Modified Google Ventures Design Spring

PROBLEM

We love to take photos to keep good memories especially when we travel. However, sometimes it’s hard or there’s not enough time to find a nice photo-taking spot.

SYNTHESIZE RESEARCH

Taking notes from existing interview insights and personas helped me understand the actual user needs. Here are notes from different people:

"I want to find great places to take photos but doesn’t want to spend time researching or traveling out of the way to find them."

"I Can easily find locations and examples of the best photo ops in a city before planning out her day around visiting them. I'm willing to spend time planning out for photo taking."

JOURNEY MAP

A possible end-to-end user experience :

LIGHTING DEMO

Takeaways:

Good features from Google Map:

map display,
user images,
rating & reviews,
draw to show list

Good features from SpotHero:

selection highlighted and enlarged,
color consistency

CRAZY 8S EXERCISE

SOLUTION SKETCH

I liked the first screen I sketched which is the place exploring page. Below is the 3-panel board: the home page comes before it, the place explore page itself, and the detailed place page that comes after.