zenly (revamped)

Project Summary

For this project, my team and I wanted to take an existing application and enhance it’s overall user experience by improving its user interface, adding in new features and decluttering the overall application layout.

What is Zenly?

Using its own mapping data and engine, Zenly is a social mapping network that uses video game technology and a 3D camera to provide each of its users with a personalized, well-rounded view of the world. Zenly's goal is to act as a way to track your closest friends in real time. Instead of waiting for your friends to text you their location or hoping they update their status on social media, you can track their exact steps as they happen.

Revamping Zenly

Over the course of 4 weeks, my team and I were able to redesign the app’s interface while also implementing new features. We started off the project by conducting a usability test on the existing app using Jakob Nielsen's 10 Heuristic Principles. Using the evaluation, we could then easily pinpoint the pain points of the app.

Some issues we could point out were the app not having consistent navigation buttons, unintuitive icons, their pages were too cluttered, and had redundant and repetitive buttons.

We created prototypes that did not stray too far from the existing app and conducted user testing sessions to gather feedback and observe user interactions with the prototypes. We repeated the prototype-making and user-testing process over 5 times to achieve our final product.

The Final Product

Here are some screenshots of the final product. The playable prototype can be access through this link: Zenly Playable Prototype