DigiDash

Designated Driving Companion
Year: 2019
Role: UX / UI Designer

The Project

For many drivers, a car is like a second home. A living room on the street where all of life is played out on the move.  For some that includes sharing multiple cars with multiple drivers. The goal of DIGIDASH is to increase the lifespan of the vehicle and keep families safe.

Problem

Single location enabling drivers to store, share. and  track all of their automotive information which is accessible anywhere and anytime.

Solution

DIGIDASH solves this problem through an iPhone designed to giver users the experience of driving, sharing, and maintaining your car easy and secure.   User’s have the option to wirelessly pair their iPhone with their DIGIDASH Adapter or manually log their information into the mobile app.  It stores all of storing all of the car needs and information in one location and sending gentle alerts and reminders summarizing of all the car needs. It enables you to email and export your car and drivers profile securely.

Project Vision: For many drivers, a car is like a second home. A living room on the street where all of life is played out on the move.  For some that includes sharing multiple cars with multiple drivers. The goal of DIGIDASH is to increase the lifespan of the vehicle and keep families safe.

Constraints: DIGIDASH is an early stage startup company that is still figuring out their best business strategy. My challenge was to design an experience that would remain competitive as the company expanded.

Research & Discovery

Customer Expectations

I surveyed the target users using to identify their current needs, the apps that they are currently using, how they use it, and how they approach car maintenance.I surveyed the target users using to identify their current needs, the apps that they are currently using, how they use it, and what are their current automobile expectations.

People who had a valid driver’s license were screened out.

Current solutions

A competitive analysis was performed to better understand the market and where DIGIDASH stands amongst its industries. For this analysis we used thirteen mobile applications. 

Customer Expectations

Key Feedback

1. Users want to see a history of their automobile repairs.

2. Users want to easily find instructions for any a car they are driving.

3. Users want phone calls to remind them of routine maintenance.

4. Users under the of 54 currently have their smartphones connected to their automobile.

Personas

Bio

Based on my findings, I was able to understand my target audience and develop user personas and identify key user stories.   I discovered that there were two types of her cases.   but also be able to save and easily organize that information.
  • User Car Owner
  • Frequent Driver
  • Responsible Driver

    Concepting & Design

    In designing the initial site map, I notice that this app was turning into a wallet app or a place holder for important car information.  This is when I realized that we needed to improve the connection between car and driver which In return would extend the life of the car.

    The final designs

    All of these elements finally come together in the final designs. You can take a look at the prototype and journey map.

    see prototype