capsharing

carpool mobile app

Capsharing has been designed for a specific company to help workers to get to the different offices within Spain, saving time and money, and promoting fellowship.

design process

01

definition

02

ARCHITECTURE

03

UI DESIGN

01 definition.

The project came as an idea from the workers who do not have a car as they were facing the difficulties of living far away form the offices. This meant 2 hours by train (4 in total) every day that they have to do face-to-face work.

As a result, they suggested to create a platform that would find a carpool service provided by other co-workers with empty spots on their vehicles.

  • problem

    +4 hours of journey.

    Waking up at 5 am to catch the train and arriving home late.

    Not being productive due to the tiredness.

    Not being able to stay a few more minutes at the office to finish the job due to train schedules.

  • needs and desires

    Don’t waking up so early and arriving home at a decent time.

    Having independence and freedom from public transport schedule.

    Connecting with co-workers.

  • solution

    A mobile app that allows for every worker to find a “car-pool” service provided by other co-workers with empty spots on their vehicles. In this app, vehicle owners can post availability, time tables and picking or dropping spots for their rides while other workers can search for options that suit best to get to their office and back home.

  • benefits

    Improve the commuting situation of many workers while bringing down the company’s CO2 emissions and creating an opportunity for co-workers to meet and chat, strengthening company’s collaboration.

User personas

  • passenger

    Jordi is 31 years old, he is an engineer living in Barcelona. He works for a company located at 30km from the city. He mostly works remotly but he has to attend to the offices 2 times a week.

    He doesn’t have a car so he needs to move by public transport. This means moving by metro, train and bus to finally get to the offices. In order to get on time, he has to wake up at 5 am and comes home really late.

    He would like to have the independence of moving by car but he can’t afford one. He knows that there are many colleagues going by car but he doesn’t have the confidence to ask them to give him a ride. He wishes there was a way to make this more easier and not embarrassing.

  • Driver

    Emma is 36 years old, she is a validation engineer living in Barcelona. She works at the same company that Jordi but she has to attend to the office every day of the week, because of that she decided to buy a car and move freely every day.

    However, she feels that traveling so much will increase the fuel expenses and she is not in a position to spend so much money.

    She would like to go every day by car but without having to much expenses. She believes that the fuel expenses could be shared with someone of the office who needs a ride but, as she is new in the company, she doesn’t know anyone at the office.

02 architecture.

A benchmark was done before defining the architecture of the app, in order to understand how different apps solve similar issues. As a result of this analysis, the architecture could be defined as linear. According to the different users and their needs, 3 main user flows were developed: log in, book spot and publish spot.

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user flows

log in

book car spot

publish car spot

03 ui design.

Once the structure was defined and the flows were clear, the wireframes were created. The design began with the Lo-Fi wireframes so that the user and the client could simply navigate. After feedback and iteration, the Hi-Fi wireframes and prototype were developed.

lo-fi wireframes

hi-fi wireframes