WeDrive
WeDrive
Ari Grewal, Duowen Chen, Melissa Valencia, Gia Kim
Drive, Ride, Stress Free
A carpooling app that motivates students to explore and travel outside of Hanover, and makes carpooling a less stressful experience for everyone.
Identifying Our Problem Space
Life in Hanover can feel very isolating due to the lack of accessible transportation. There are no Uber or Lyft drivers and even if there are, the prices are incredibly high. AT only works until 7pm on weekdays and it doesn’t operate during the weekends.
...There is a clear need for a more accessible and affordable transportation option for students at Dartmouth.
We interviewed a variety of Dartmouth students (undergraduate, graduate, those with cars, those without cars, etc.) to understand the pain points from the lack of transportation.
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From our interviews, we analyzed the data and constructed our POVs and HMWs. We were then able to identify specific needs for our potential users.
Our Lofi and User Testing
After conducting and analyzing our user research, we brainstormed and created our lofi prototypes. We focused on designing an intuitive and user-friendly interface that enables drivers and passengers to easily connect with each other and coordinate ridesharing.
Our MedFis
Our lo-fi prototypes were simple mockups to represent the user interface and basic functionality of our product. Once we validated our lo-fi prototype, we create a higher fidelity prototype. We added more steps in the task flow and replaced the placeholder text in our lo-fi prototypes. We added colours and graphics to make our product more delightful.
Heuristic Evalution
Key Takeaways from our heuristic evaluation included providing user clarity and refining the prototype flow for both the rider and the driver. In terms of user clarity, the navigation bar icons were changed to better fit the page information along with more feedback provided to the user such as conflict handling and user status. The prototype flow was refined by fleshing out the rider flow and connecting the navigation bar to the designated pages.
Our Final Product
Using React Native, we created a partially functional implementation of our updated Hi-Fi prototype implementing three main flows. These flows were as follows:
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Rider requests a ride and views accepted, pending, and previous rides
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Driver accepts / denies rides and views accepted and pending rides
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Rider is able to leave a review for drivers from previous, completed rides
See our full final report here>>
See our final presentation here>>