My Role: UX design and research
Nodal is a start up mobile app that is designed to aid first year university students in finding teammates for competitions, such as hackathons.
Project Goals:
Surveys
User Flows
Usability Testing
Interviews
Wire-framing
Info-graphic design
Invision
Google Forms
Google Slides
Sketch
Slack
Google Drive
One of the biggest challenges for this project concerned how were we going to handle matchmaking of users. Our research suggested that teams work best when their goals for a project are similar. So we identified the three primary reasons that people joined competitions and matched them based on that.
The three goal paradigm was inspired by the research and philosophies of the game company Wizards of the Coast. In a famous article published in 2002 they identified three types of players who play their card game Magic the Gathering; Timmy, Johnny, and Spike. We took that idea and designed a matchmaking system for our app that matched users based on three motivating factors; how much they want to win, learn, and have fun.
