HomePets

Welcome to HomePets

Home Pets is a website which allows adopting lovely pets. Many people are fond of pets and could not find the right place to adopt a pet, this platform allows pet lovers to get in contact with shelters to adopt and also allow them to participate in pet events held by various shelters out there.

My Role

My role in this project as a UX designer was to take ownership of the app’s design, from concept to delivery. My responsibility included UX research, wireframing, prototyping, usability study and creation of high fidelity prototype

UX Process

Research

We conducted user research and received feedback from users that we incorporated into user personas. For example, our user persona, Charlotte is a 25 year old girl residing in the city of Sydney, she is a fashion designer. She has a home office and mostly works at home. As a child, she always wanted to adopt a puppy but because of parents she was not allowed to. Now as a grownup and independent woman she has decided to have a pet.

Insights learned

From user research, we learned that there were some pain points for users. The two biggest pain points users had are

• Lack of knowledge of how to raise a pet
• No knowledge of any dog/cat breed

These we are trying to solve through this UX design.

Information Architechture

A sitemap was created combining the task flows with user navigation paths for the three major task flows,

• Scheduling a visit to the shelter.
• Enquiring about interested pet animals.

UI Ideation : sketches and wireframes

Here’s how we put our users’ needs first. The process below begins with our initial ideas wireframes, then moves to mockups, and finally to the high-fidelity prototype.

Wireframes

In this simple version, you can see how the designer approaches solving the user’s needs.

Mockups

Now the design really begins to take shape: actual text is used, colors are applied, and images are added. This mockup shows a visual that gives a better idea of the final design.