Winter Olympics
UI/UX・
Visual Design・
UI/UX・ Visual Design・
Objective
Creating a transformative Winter Olympics platform that merges sports, entertainment, and information, enabling users to set and achieve personalized goals by immersive experiences and community engagement.
Theme
Creating a user-friendly system that aligns event viewing with users' work schedules, coupled with visually engaging interfaces to enhance event selection. The design ensures a seamless, personalized, and visually appealing experience.
Duration
9 Weeks
Tools
Figma, Sketch
Company
Olympics
Category
Academic Project
Design Process
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It helps solve the problem of the user needing to manually check their schedules to see whether they are free to watch a certain event at a particular time.
I saw an opportunity to make event selection more easier, fun and visually appealing to the user.
I believe this is important because watching sports is supposed to be a fun, entertaining process. It’s something a user might watch to relax and unwind.
If the user is watching games between a busy work day, it should be fast, easy and peaceful to the eyes in a way that breaks the monotony of daily work.
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The solution creates a schedule of available games that the user is free to watch.
It shows any live games at the start followed by 2 upcoming games.
These events are shown as player/event cards which are flippable (tablet solution) to view more information about the event and rotatable as a 3D shape in a 2D space (television solution).
A Quick Scan
On a Tablet
Game Schedule
▪︎ Use of graphical cards based on events.
▪︎ The cards are arranged based on time of event.
▪︎ User can flip the cards by tapping to view more content.
Default
Flip 1 - Event Details
Flip 2 - Event Viewing
On a TV
State 1
▪︎ Select and Card Rotate
State 2
▪︎ Card Rotate and Content Play
State 3
▪︎ Navigating to next card
Remote Control for TV
A Deeper Dive
Cognitive Walkthrough and Mapping
Task - Checking schedule of games
Task - Checking which platform the game will stream in different parts of the world
Immersion and Participatory Experience - Snowboarding
Snowboarder.com
usskiandsnowboard.org
Observations
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It can get confusing and one can get lost in all the data that is offered especially when you have no knowledge of it and are in a beginners zone.
It can be taxing and user may give up midway
May get overwhelming at times if its not the content youre particularly interested in.
User Archetypes and Stories
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As a corporate manager, I want to schedule my acitvities, so that I can know when, where and how I can watch the olympic games.
The Sports Buff
Scenario: This person’s attention is on seeing all games he/she is interested in.
Goals: An interface that allows watching multiple games that are live at one time
Needs: Multiple screen view, notifications of interesting developments during the game, knowing when to switch attention
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As a olympic fan, I want to watch multiple games, so that I can eliminate the fear of missing out on live and exciting moments.
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As a student, I want to choose a sport fast, so that I can have some entertainment while having a quick meal between classes.
Worldsnowboardfederation.org
Olympics App
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Sometimes you may be unable to answer the questions of the person youre teaching since you are new to the data itself.
Sort of like a ‘i learn, you learn’ process.
You may use terms that are not correct since all the jargon can get really confusing
The Organiser
Scenario: This person’s attention is on time management and creating a schedule to follow along during their day
Goals: An interface that manages different alarms based on time zones and cities. An interface that helps them easily organise lesiure activity with their professional commitments.
Needs: An effective planner, Reminders, Auto re-scheduling
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As a person with OCD, I want to plan my day in advance, so that I can have a relaxed mind and not be worried about missing a game.
The Chiller
Scenario: This person’s attention is on casually scrolling through the schedules to check which game they can watch at that moment. Purely for entertainment purpose
Goals: An interface that allows easy schedule navigation and helps pick a game fast
Needs:Easy to understand schedule, sorting and filtering
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Not understanding what the content means
Not being able to watch actual live games on the app/website
Getting lost/confsued in the schedules and timings
previous recordings?
Athlete data?
Actions: Choice of activity, time slot sorting
Thoughts: Help plan when to watch a particular event, how to know time in particular location.
Feelings: Frustrated if things go off schedule, upset about missing out on things that matter, lack of effectiveness results in feeling of defeat
Pain Points: Need to have things pan out perfectly can get painful without effective tools, lack of effectiveness results in feeling of defeat
Actions: Choosing games, focussing attention, switching between games
Thoughts: Knowing how to watch games together, still not missing out on important moments.
Feelings: Fear of missing out, fear of choosing the game that would be less interesting compared to the othe choice.
Pain Points: Missing game moments
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As a sports enthusiast who lives in another country, I want to know where I can stream the games in my region and at what time, so that I can enjoy the games live.
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As an undecisive person, I want to scan between the games easily so that I can make a decision in a short time.
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As a employee with multiple shifts at various places, I want to schedule my work timings alongwith game schedules, so that I can enjoy the games live.
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As a sports journalist, I want to watch simaltaneous live games at once, so that I can collect relevant data.
Actions: Sorting live games, types of games
Thoughts: I want to watch a game in my free time/have entertainment while consuming a meal
Feelings: Chill, happy, passing time
Pain Points: Taking too long to pick something to watch.
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As a senior citizen, I want to understand the schedule easily, so that I can make a convenient choice of game..
Journey Map
User Story
Persona : Sports Buff
Scenario: A sports enthusiast user who lives in another country, wants to know where he/she can stream the games in their region and at what time, so that they can enjoy the games live/record them
Expectations:
Easy & intuitive navigation
Clear schedule
Location settings
User Story
User is an international corporate professional with a busy daily routine. User wants to know when and where they can watch the olympic games. User wants to create a schedule which incorporates their activities alongwith olympic game times and shows games based on users availibilty and in local time.
How did the process lead to the solution?
The solution arose mainly from brainstorming ideas during the how might we statements in the process.
Upon wireframing, I explored many different layout options for what a calendar or schedule could look like.
While doing visual research I stumbled upon the concept of player cards which I felt was as interesting approach to make the event selection more interesting and aesthetic.
I created a lot of different iterations for what these cards could look like.