THE BAUHAUS MOUSE
This was a crowdsourcing platform that was positioned as fun and engaging for freelancers working in the digital space to allow developers to work on projects. There was an ambition to create a self-contained ecosystem where users could bid and work on projects with secure transactions using digital currency. Hence, the system would assign rank and experience to the users.
The concept of a self-contained ecosystem in regard to transactions was a considerable good call since back in 2013 bitcoin was still under the radar, bitcoin had to come to exist in 2009. During this period the freelancing platform was still in the early phase and these concepts would have translated to a successful platform if it had gone beyond beta testing.
This was my first role in an entry position as jr.ux designer. As a team member, I supported my team through research, design, and usability testing, and sometimes conducted miscellaneous tasks. The process involved participating in user research and understanding the potential users of this system. The persona was developed for the type of target audience that could use this platform. There was a fair amount of time spent designing how the platform could impact work in the digital space.
The user journey was used to depict the experience of how users could navigate through the experience to fulfill goals. Wireframes were developed based on features mapped out in the user journey. A survey was organized with interviews along with usability testing conducted to test the prototype.
These were mobile projects that I initiated for the design of apps concepts I had in mind. My earliest design was for a food app which at this time of writing is quite common. Some of the others are for different concepts that emerged later on.
