MyCamp: camping trips minus the hassle
By: Amal Algregri
Tags: First Post, Beginner, Ux Ui Bootcamp

Timeline: 1 week

Project: Group project for Misk Academy UX/Ui Bootcamp

problem

Campers complain about issues in their camping trips.

As a outdoor camping enthusiast, I have noticed Campers who need assistance in organizing a camping trip, because they don’t have time, experience, or equipment to organize it by themselves. Our solution should deliver a way to help campers to find camping organizers to have an interesting and comfortable camping trip.

The solution

Professional organizers to the rescue

Our solution is to create a P2P application to connect campers with professional organizers where organizers provide a variety of packages that full fills all campers’ needs including tent setup, equipment, food and drinks, entertainment and emergency services.

Desk research

Unpleasant surprises are major setback

My colleagues Haneen Alghamdi, Najla Alsaedi and I started research through social media like Twitter and Instagram and read about campers’ experiences, motivation and needs of their camping trip, when I noticed how many people actually complained about the unexpected issues they face.

Exabit A: camping trip struggles

User Interview

Key factors: Weather came on the top of the list

Even though we found out in our research that unexcepted problems was a huge issue during camping trips. We have conducted interviews with 10 people who camp frequently every year yet they fail in achieving the camping experience they are looking for. The question below are some of what we asked them to find trends on what these issues are and why they occur.

Research Questions:

What is your definition of a successful camping? How do you plan your camping trip? Where do you go for camping trips? Why do you like camping? Have you tried a professional camping organizer before? How was your experience?

affinity mapping

The main insight

They never used an app to arrange camping trips

Based on the trends in the affinity map, we have noticed that there are many pain points related to weather, accidents, food and water supply, equipment and location. here are the key insights:

Users need professional organizers to be carefree during the trip. Users like to camp because they look to change routine, have fun activities, and enjoy nature. Some users hesitate to camp because of unexpected accidents.

Design

Wireframing:

sketching the wireframe was assigned to me by our team. We wanted to create easy and intuitive design and here what I came up with.

MyCamp: wireframing stage

prototyping

The final prototype

User Testing

Finding

In general, users didn’t stuck and quickly read the screen, clicked the button and went to the next screen. But there is particular one when almost all of them got confused. The choose package screen was puzzling for them and we thought it must be improved.

Conclusion + lessons learned

What I’d do differently next time.

Conduct more usability testing and improve the design accordingly.

Iterate as much as we can.

Documenting every step and take pictures and videos.

Ask for more feedback from our peers and mentor.

Thank you for reading!