User Flows
After researching, creating personas, I moved on to designing the wireframe diagrams of the flow of the structure and scope. In the beginning, I didn’t believe this portion of the redesign process was crucial until I incorporated several goals and outlined how to accomplish them with the wireframe design. Without this portion of the design process, I would not have been able to visualize how the user would scroll through and interact with the app in general based on my initial ideas alone.
The first goal that was initially thought of in the first part of the redesigning process was to keep track of one’s tv show viewing. The app TV Time, which I am redesigning, was originally created to simply be an app to keep track of what shows you were watching and what episode you were on to keep everything organized. It is necessary for the user to create an account to keep the data in one place and once that is completed, the user can adjust the profile picture and banner to their desired colors and photos to make it unique to them. Then, they can begin adding their shows and record what point they are up to in episodes and seasons.
The second goal, which is necessary to have on any social media application nowadays, is to have the capability to share your shows and your progress with your friends and family. This process begins when you choose to update your tv show viewing status and add a new show, episode, or season to your progress. When completed, the user has the option to share their information to their friends via a link, various social media applications as well as basic text and email.
Once the user is comfortable with the interface and has inputted all of the television shows they are currently watching, they can use the discover button on the bottom menu bar to explore the other shows that may interest them as well as what their friends are watching, a basic search button, top-rated/trending shows and shows that are being recommended to you based on your viewing history.
In this current time in social media viewing, many of the applications have incorporated saved collections or bookmarked folders to keep one’s favorites organized for quick relocation at any point in time. It’s important to include this feature on TV Time to organize our shows into categories that are recommended for us, such as crime shows, or categories that we labeled ourselves, like tv shows I watch with my friends, etc.
Similar to exploring the content unknown to the user stated in a previous goal as well as sharing the information with friends and family, another goal of the application is to have the ability to explore the community of fans of the specific show around the world. Many people desire to meet people with similar interests, including favorite actors, shows, and fandoms to gain a sense of community, especially since this feature is offered in many other apps such as Instagram, Twitter, etc., where you can explore the world through a specific lens that interests a certain group of people. This brings about a sense of community and friendliness that some people don’t have in their daily lives, which is crucial to maintain on an online platform such as this.
