Rover
*This was a personal project completed for my senior portfolio in 2013
The idea for Rover came when I saw a honeymoon registry site for a friend of mine. I love the idea of gifting experiences rather than material goods- thus I made Rover. This is a place where you can fundraise for that road trip out west or even stock up on adventures when studying abroad. Although young adults are going to be the main backend users, I made it my goal to design the profile page intuitive and comfortable for all our moms, dads, & grandmas funding our trips.
Sketches
Wireframes
Final Designs
Home Page & Sign Up
I wanted the home page to very clean and straightforward. The background image could easily be turned into a life style video of people on an adventure. Learn would take the user to a video of how the site works and exactly what is Rover. Once they've decided they're in, they can click Sign Up which brings them to this easy form. All they have to do is provide an email and password, keeping the barriers to a minimal.
Profile Page
Above is the landing view of a profile page. Here you can see Dylan has two trips open for gifting in the upper right corner. His Zion trip is currently activated as the home page. Here there is a map for visitors to get familiar with the area. Below is a stats bar to help encourage guests that 'others are gifting, so should I!" Also this section provides all the details of the trip, including links his companions' pages.
Below is what this page looks like if you kept scrolling. This is where you would reach the Experiences or the gift section. As you scroll the background stays stationary and a transparent bar allows access to the navigation at any time.
The experiences were designed with your mom in mind. The buttons are large, math is done for the user, and a progress bar helps visualize how close Dylan is to that zip line experience.
Mobile View of Profile
The responsive design lends its self easily to mobile devices. The experience tiles remain the same size and stack, allowing the user to easily focus on one experience at a time with out pinching to zoom.
Dashboard, Status Page
My favorite page, the Funding Status section of a trip. I love stats, and here Dylan can quickly see that he has received new funding and how well he is doing on this campaign. Near the bottom you will see the beginning of a list, this is simple way for users to keep track of who is giving them these gifts. There is even a thank you feature that will open a modal to quickly send Aunt Susie a big thank you for the rock climbing funds.
Dashboard, Manage Experiences
When a user needs to edit their Experiences, they can head on over to this page. Here visuals match the profile page but instead of funding status bar, the user can choose how they want the experiences to be displayed. Dylan's mom just gave him a lecture on skydiving so he's hiding that on his profile for now.
Rover was a very fun project to work on. I'm looking forward to expanding it even further and designing the check out process that our moms and grandmas need to be able to use.