SnapScout

A Location Sharing App for the Creators

UX Design

This is a student project created for my UX design studies at BrainStation. The following only showcases a brief summary of the project scope. Please contact to see a more extensive presentation if interested.

Length of project 4 weeks (2018)

Overview

Location scouting is very time-consuming. How can one shorten the process yet select the most relevant location for photography/video projects?

SnapScout is a digital platform for the photography and film community to share and search for places to shoot in. The platform aims to make the process of location scouting easier and more effective by implementing conditional searches. Users who contribute to the database will amplify potential locations for photography, making the search more qualitative and reliable.

There are many photography based online platforms and forums where photographers share their work and exchange information. However, there isn’t one platform which solely focuses on qualitative location searches for photography. Based on the user interviews conducted for this project, Instagram is the most popular app used for location scouting despite it being a social media platform.

SnapScout will be a unique user experience to photographers who are looking for “the right place” to create their images and videos. The mobile application will consist of a conditional search tool to help users narrow down potential and relevant locations that are suitable for their projects based on the information provided by the users with the SnapScout community.

Research

User Interviews

Learning from user through the methods of phone interview and Google forms; the script consist of questions related to the participants' experiences of photographing and filming on location.

Insights

Exploration of different personas that are part of the community who would be interested in the potential solution.

Card Sorting

This method helps with mapping out and pinpointing the pain points, key motivations and user behaviours.

Persona

with the information collected from the interviews, I was able to draw out the common tools, objectives and decision-making patterns.

Potential Solution

A digital platform that specifically serves as database and forum for the community to share and exchange relevant information on locations for photography and filming; equipped with conditional search engine for qualitative information such as accessibility, applicable fees, availability of equipment and utilities, etc.

Design & Prototyping

Information Architecture

using the information organized in the card sorting process, I worked out the architecture of \the potential solution.

User Flows

Exploration of different user flows using the personas created to help refine the information architecture.