amaliebarras/redarena-app

repo for REDarena group project

#Red Arena

Read more about my design challenges here

Create, edit, and manage the schedule & profile of all staff, riders, and horses. Technical Requirements here

Research

##Competetive Analysis

• Other centers like them:
  • The ROCK North Austin
    • Focuses on kids
    • Promotes independence & life skills
    • Service, education and research
  • SIRE
    • In houston
    • Focuses on special needs
      • Most common is autism, followed by cerebral palsy
  • Path (certification)
    • promotes safety and optimal outcomes
    • strong core values
      • access and inclusion
      • coop & collaboration
      • education, innovation
      • etc.
• Differentiating factors:
  • Individual lessons instead of group lessons
  • Program set up to where horses have days off
    • horses are healthy & last 6 years
  • Job training, mental health counseling
  • Broad range of offerings

##Sitemap

###Pages

####Schedule

• Create session

• Edit Session

• View session

• Notify all participants in session

• Check availability

• Birthdays / Anniversaries

• Upcoming schedile items

• Updated profile notifications

• Current to-do's

• Job training notes

• Create

• Edit

• View

• Assign time / person

• Mark Complete

####Profile

• Create profile
• Edit profile
• View profile

##Client Meeting

###Questions

1. What is your current process for these tasks (in more detail)?

   • Schedule - see below
   • Profile -
     • Riders
       • name,
       • address,
       • DOB,
       • phone number,
       • email,
       • startdate,
       • saddle y/n
     • Staff
       • Phone
       • email
       • start date
       • typical availability
       • roles
     • Horse profile
       • name
       • horse tack
         • pad,
         • saddle,
         • reins,
         • stirrups

2. Describe a typical user for this app? (Organizers, employees, volunteers?)

   • Volunteers (100+) -
     • high school student volunteer hours
     • retired men / women
     • people that love horses
   • Staff (10-15 part time, 2 admin) -
     • medical background
     • RN, retired
     • professional riding instructors
   • Riders (100+) -
     • Kids under 18
     • Adults with brain injury

3. What adjectives do you want the user to describe the app with?

• Empathy, fun, healing

4. How is your center different from other centers like yours?

   • The ROCK North Austin, SIRE, Path (certification)
   • Individual lessons instead of group lessons
   • Program set up to where horses have days off
   • last 6 years
   • JOb training, mental health counseling
   • broad not deep

5. Are there any assets that I am required to incorporate into the design?

   • Green field

Style Tiles

We came up with a few different concepts for styling, playing around with child-like, feminine, and friendship. We ended up going with a barn-like color scheme and sans-serif spacious type, since we knew our screens would be busy.

Sketches

During the sketch phase, we chose a tile-like directory and a calendar layout for the "upcoming" page.

Jenna's amazing sketches below:

Wireframes

I used Sketch to do these wireframes

Mobile

Directory

The biggest challenge with mobile was definitely the week view on the calendar. Not much more than a dot can fit, but we managed to fit something big enough for the thumb to tap, and then display more info.

Upcoming

Tablet

We focused a lot on tablet because it seems like a great solution for the user inside the barn. Walking around with a laptop would be bulky, but a tablet would strike the balance between lightweight & usable.

Directory

Upcoming

Desktop

Directory

Upcoming

Style Guide

You can clone this repo & serve it on Jekyll, or find it here very soon.