Enviro

A Universal mobile app for EV owners navigate to closet charging station

Note: This project was part of my virtual experience program by Forage

About the project

Forage has equipped me with an excellent opportunity to gain a virtual experience program by Bp. Bp is on a mission to provide reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon energy to the world. It emphasizes being at the forefront of the sustainable energy transition, such as EVs. With the growing demand for EVs in the market, there is a need for a universal mobile app that helps owners navigate to the closest charging station—focused on creating a sustainable and environment-friendly approach to assist drivers in finding nearby charging stations.

Problem

From the information provided by research, a significant Pain point has been observed for EV users -

1. To find the closest charging station

2. And to check if enough battery is there to reach the station.

Solution

In order to help EV users to navigate to closet charging stations,

“How might we design and develop a user-friendly and universally accessible mobile app that utilizes geolocation technology, allowing electric vehicle (EV) owners to effortlessly find and navigate to the nearest charging stations and providing real-time battery level monitoring, ensuring that EV owners can confidently reach the charging station without running out of power"

My role and responsibility

As a virtual experience participant, to perform the role, specified tasks are given. It was intended to carry out the project in order as it describes the overall design process and next steps. My part was to conduct market research, build a persona, and create wireframes along with prototyping.

Date

March, 2023

Tools

Figma

Type of work

Research,Wireframing , UI design, Prototyping.

Goal

To create a seamless user experience for EV users to reach out the closet charging station

Task 1

Research: Comprehending the market insights for competitive audits

Although a pain point was supplied, for creating a persona, I needed to understand the market of Electric vehicles and the apps assigned to them. Conducting market research helped me to understand Electric vehicles, their uses, and how they can help us to reduce our carbon footprint. A competitive audit was performed to understand the market insights to develop an EV app that meets the user's needs and contributes to the sustainable energy transition.

Task 2

To create a User persona from the obtained market research and supplied pain points.

A goal-directed persona was made from the supplied pain point and market research. While developing a persona, the market analysis helped me to know about EV apps and compare them with the available pain point.

Task 3 & 4

Ideate and develop wireframes

After going through market research, conducting competitive audits, and creating a persona, it’s time to bring ideas of how the final product will look in the form of wireframes. Creating Wireframes can provide the overall look of the product, and its functionality, addressing the user's pain into solutions. I started with creating sketch wireframes and translated them into lo-fi wireframes. For this task, the goal was to meet the user's needs and approach their pain points with better solutions.

Low- Fidelity wireframes

As I approached further, I converted my LO-fi wireframes into High -fidelity for the final look of the app screens. For hi-fi screens, I opted an environment-related color theme. this is my version of Hi-fi screens .

Get started

You are welcome

Look for nearest charging stations

Charge now

Let's check the battery

A simple look to get started!

The home screen with a map indicates the user's live location along with the nearest charging station available

Battery status indicates users about their battery % along with the distance covered by them and the distance that can be covered by the remaining battery.

Users create their accounts to get access to the app.

The charging station's availability helps users to get info about the type of charger available according to their needs.

My profile

It's charging

The profile screen enables users to have an overall look at the app's usage.

The charging pop-up system indicates the battery functions and overall battery information.

High - Fidelity wireframes

Task 5

Let's Prototype it

Learnings from the virtual experience programme

Forage has allowed me to be a virtual experience participant of bp and helped me to dive into a company's working system.

The virtual experience program with bp offered me a unique glimpse into their inner workings, allowing me to explore their team dynamics and project processes.

It has given me insight into how a team works on a project and the challenges faced while designing a product.

The experience unveiled the importance of market research, user-centered design, and iterative prototyping in their design process.

This unique opportunity with bp has broadened my perspective and inspired me to approach future design projects with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and best practices within the industry.