RoadTraveler
A lot of us had this great American dream about traveling with your family on route 66. It was one of the well-known greatest drive to those who enjoy doing road trips for traveling. However, including navigation and itinerary, the planning stage simply takes too much of our time. What road traveler can provide is a one-stop road trip planner who loves doing road trips yet life keeps them too busy to plan everything out.
My Role
Project Manager, User Research, Wire-framing, Prototyping, Storyboarding
Our Vision
A new trip planner that provides a detailed search by category while the trip is ongoing.
What is the problem?
Some families or people find out it is time-consuming and difficult when planning a complete road trip with the sites that they can drive through to their destination without diverge their main route and interested in.
Our Users
Eric has a happy family with two kids. Between their mortgage, car payments and saving for their children’s education, Eric schedules at least one annual road trip with the family. He is willing to pay a small fee for a better planner rather than go through the trouble with Google Maps and TripAdvisor and dealing with multiple files of interesting location’s information. He also needs an easier way to find kids-friendly locations.
Eric Chu Persona
User Stories
Eric wants to plan a long weekend with his family and kids, and this year they wanted to go back up to Door county from Milwaukee again for a family trip. Instead of doing through research and print the itinerary out, Eric just takes out his phone, searched the best route between Milwaukee to Door county with three categories within his mind, Children’s attractions, Points of interests and Outdoor activities. Eric clicked and unselected those spots they’ve been before, then he saves the trip into his profile.
Sam loves to go hiking with his friends. They find hiking spots with beautiful ocean and lake view or waterfalls all the time. They are planning their next hiking trip to Rainier National Park, but they want to find some spots that requires some outdoor hiking to get to the photo opportunity while getting some actions since they are all hiking enthusiasts.
Information Architecture and Wireframe
This is my first version prototype, I created the interfaces for a smartphone application. The application has 3 main features for original release, including Maps, Nearby and Profile. Maps can help user to find their current location and all interesting locations around selected location. Nearby can help the user to find what is near them by the user selected category. User can also save their trips and selected locations once the user is logged in to the system. In future planning, the user will also be able to share their trip and use this application for navigation.
Information Architecture
Product Features
Video MVP Presentation
This is Road Traveler, a road trip planner that is customized by different user's requirements. After our "Road Traveler" welcome page, we are looking at our home page, the nearby page that can show you some interesting spots that are close to your current location, you can also search by using a keyword to find something specific that is near you in this page.
When we click the maps option at the bottom, it will jump to a page with maps and will provide some highly rating sites for you as well. Also, there will be the navigation page when you are going on a road trip, which is our main function.
By clicking the blue car button, you can plan your road trip easily. First, you’ll need to input your starting location and destination. Then you can choose the specific category you want to visit during the road trip. And when that’s all done just start a new trip, a well-planned route will show on the screen!
The Road Traveler app also provides functions for user save their trips and have some other personal functions, all you need to do is sign up for free. Our registered users can save not only a planned trip, but also your favorite spots and even offline maps
Prototype Design
Reflection
Roadtraveler is the first product manage project I've ever completed. Yes this project is heavily linked with user experience. We conducted user research interviews, studied about our users and created personas based on our research. I created the information architecture that shows me how to think about my product on a bigger scale. I have also created the user stories, made assumptions about how users will use our product in a realistic situations.