Safer Employee Parking Bays
TIMELINE
11th August - 13th August 2023
PLATFORM
Mobile App
MY ROLE
UI Designer
Introduction
Bay is a mobile car parking app that empowers every employee regardless of their gender with the freedom to travel from their vehicle to the workplace without the looming fear or harm.
My Role
My role on the team (Techtonics) was to create the UI Design of the mobile app as well as the user flow between features. I was heavily involved in the ideation of the product as well as the features of the app.
Project Overview
Client: Women in Tech(WIT) University of Melbourne Student Club
Duration: 3 days
Target users: Women at work
This app was built as a hackathon project hosted by the WIT club in the University of Melbourne. It was based off the theme BreakSilence. It aims to involve eradicating gender bias in the workplace by designing an innovative solution that promotes equality, fairness, and inclusivity in professional environments and addresses the issues women might face in the workplace .
Problem
The first step was to identify what kinds of challenges women face in the workplace and think of possible solutions. The key problem we decided on was the safety of women when travelling to and from work, especially during off-peak periods where there aren’t many people around.
Through research and experiences we have found that:
There are cases where women were followed when going to their cars
Women don’t feel safe walking to their carparks alone
Women can’t find their cars
Goal
Ensure the safety of women in the workplace
By creating an app that enables more accessibility options towards women. This would reassure women when commuting to work.
Changing societal attitudes on how they interact with women
By increase social awareness of women’s safety and what they go through to improve the general knowledge of the general public. This would decrease the number of future incidents regarding women’s safety.
For the product to be easily implemented in today’s day and age
As the problem exist now, it is best to be able to use this solution immediately as everyone has the right to feel safe when commuting to work
Early Ideation
After reviewing the goals, we brainstormed on how to achieve these goals and what kinds of features were we looking for. We researched about women’s safety cue and decided to implement certain features that visually show within the app.
The features were:
Female only parking zones
Security escort services
Instant SOS buttons
Fake call feature
Early iteration of the app feature sketches
More early iteration of the app feature sketches
Final Designs
For the final designs, we decided to include all the features mentioned in the early ideation as it would differentiate the app from others. The app only has it’s base function of a car parking app that has two versions, one for consumers and the other for the organization such as carpark building owner.
We’d love to know more about you
Gender *
Female
Male
Are you on a wheelchair? *
Yes
No
Are you disabled? *
Yes
No
Are you travelling with a baby? *
Yes
No
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Please verify your driver’s license
You must verify your driver’s license to park with us but you may skip for now
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Date of Birth *
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Final Onboarding sequence for Bay
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
South Lawn Carpark
$6.00/hr
5 spaces left
500m
South Lawn Carpark
$6.00/hr
5 spaces left
500m
My Vehicles
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Lexus UX
2fj 3aG
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Top Up
Find My Car
Car Number Plate
Start Time
End Time
Time Left
Location
1EG 5MU
8:00 AM
17:00 PM
3:01:15
Block A, Lvl 4, 59B
My Vehicles
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Lexus UX
2fj 3aG
Final Prototype of the Home screen which features user car selections, their current location and availability top up current parking or find it depending if they are parked already.
Available
Available
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FEMALE PARKING
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Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Alarm
Help
FEMALE PARKING(MALE POV)
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Alarm
Help
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
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Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Alarm
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GENERAL PARKING
Final Prototype of the Carparking Feature showcasing the Female only zone in both female and male user point of view as well as general parking
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Lexus UX
2fj 3aG
xxx car park
36
available
16
Wheelchair
20
Convenient Exit
Back
15 mins drive
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
xxx car park
You have arrived at the parking slot!
Start Parking
Go to another
Alarm
Help
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
xxx car park
Turn right at the end of the road
Alarm
Help
Find an escort
3 mins away
Colin Alexander
4.8/5
3 mins away
Deon Cole
4.8/5
3 mins away
Malcolm Giles
4.8/5
3 mins away
Dallas Reed
4.8/5
3 mins away
Florencio Olson
4.8/5
3 mins away
Aldo Vance
4.8/5
High fidelity prototype of navigation and security escort services
Top Up
Find My Car
Car Number Plate
Start Time
End Time
Time Left
Location
1EG 5MU
8:00 AM
17:00 PM
3:01:15
Block A, Lvl 4, 59B
South Lawn Carpark
$6.00/hr
5 spaces left
500m
South Lawn Carpark
$6.00/hr
5 spaces left
500m
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Toyota Prius
1EG 5MU
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Home
Map
My Vehicle
Profile
Available
Available
Alarm
Help
Components used in Bay
Future Steps
As a reflection to what went well during this project were:
Collaborating as a team smoothly and efficiently via comments and discussions
Managed to design the user side prototype within a short time frame
The idea was very well thought out and executed
The pitch was well executed
Next steps:
Extend from the user view prototype to the system view prototype
Implement the carpark bay settings for all genders
Improve upon the design to make it more consistent
Credits
Techtonics
Florence Tang
Wei Kai Khoo
Haoyue Wang