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TAP LA App

Redesign

So Our Commuters Can Ride With Confidence

Our UX Team:

Tools:

Sydney Huang

Tahlil Islam

Lionell Burgess

Saralynn Nguyen

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Where We Started

This graph shows the decrease and slow rise of public transportation usage. When covid hit users chose not to ride the bus for health and safety reasons.

https://www.bts.gov/covid-19/week-in-transportation

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Our Survey Results

27 Participants

17 Participants

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Our Survey Results

I used to take PT with my husband or to work but due to COVID I no longer feel comfortable b/c people don't wear masks.

My physical safety is my biggest concern.

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Our Problem

How might we improve the app to ease these concerns of commuters regarding physical and hygienic safety on public transportation to help them ride with confidence and bring ridership back to pre-pandemic levels?

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Proto-persona

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Interviews

We found that women were our primary audience. The results showed that users did not feel safe using public transportation because of Covid along with the fear of being assaulted. This then led us to our next Question….. How can we offer users a service that will make them feel safe while using public transportation? View here

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Competitor Analysis

Our Competitor Analysis consisted of google maps and noon light. These were the two apps that we felt would give us most information to form a better understanding of what a user needs.

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Redlining

We did some redline annotations to understand the functions of the Tap app and how their current features benefit users. View more here (Figma)

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App stays active. Can be screen overlay for easy access. press button to alert nearest security / law enforcement or press "I'm safe now" button.

Do you want to activate SOS Safety Feature?

Send alert to nearest security? On a 15 sec timer

User notified that they have boarded

User gets off bus safely

Alert is sent to nearest security/law enforcement

Returns to home with SOS feature still accessible

Are you sure you want to exit SOS safety mode?

Yes

No

I’m Safe

No

Yes

Send Alert

Yes

No

No

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Redesign: Card Page

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Original TAP app

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Redesign: on Trip Tools

Original TAP app

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Safety Feature Extension

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Apple watch

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Usability Testing

“Likes the health info update banner and ideas on the banner but felt it should have been reflected throughout the app”

“I wish there was a pop up indicating safety feature turn on”

From our initial testing, we found that users were not able to easily recognize or utilize the safety mode of the app. View more here

I like the health info update banner and ideas on the banner but felt it should have been reflected throughout the app

I wish there was a pop up indicating safety feature turn on

If safe ride mode is off, maybe send push notification that is is off?

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Style Guide

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Final Prototype

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Future Work

  • Calling feature
  • Bystander Reporting Mode
  • Recording Feature for evidence or live view against Crime
  • Think about Child Safety
  • Thinking about