RideAble

Our mission is to ease the self driving car experience, by creating an effective way to schedule, manage and track the travelling process.This system is designed to provide a simple, user-friendly interface that helps transport the city of Nolanville. In conjunction with the Endeavr project and the city of Nolanville, Texas we are seeing how automated cars can help rural cities and help create smart cities. In a team of 3 we created this project for school, I was the technical lead. I oversaw the technical research, UI kits, application flows, user journeys, and final copywrite.

Finished Prototype

Research

We explored the current market trends, potential competitors, and identified user pain points.

We found that fully automated vehicles can see more and act faster than human drivers, which could greatly reduce errors, the resulting crashes, and their toll.

Automated vehicles may also provide new mobility options to millions more Americans.

In a newly published study, researchers at the University of Southern California offered three free months of unlimited Lyft rides to 150 older people in and around Los Angeles (average age: 72) who had chronic diseases and reported transportation problems.

With training, nearly all used Lyft, most through the mobile app (a few used a call-in service), for an average of 69 trips. On follow-up questionnaires, almost all riders reported improved quality of life.

We surveyed our target demographic of adults 60+ Below is the survey and its results.

Most of the potential users were very weary of using fully automated vehicles. We found that if throughout the use of the app and rideshare service, if we gave the user the most information possible, they felt more comfortable. It was also important to explain to them how the technology worked and that a human driver was going to be fully attentive and present throughout the entire drive.

Based on the survey results and our research, we created the following personas for our users.

Below are the app flows for both the user and the driver apps. They are fairly similar with their navigation and pages. The ovals show clickable button or pages. The diamonds reprsent where it asks for user feedback. The actions are shown through rectangles. Finally, the parallelograms show where there is user information.

Lo-fi Mockups

User App

Driver App

Website

Rider App Sitemap

Horizontally it follows the main pages of the app and vertically has the menu and other notification pages with all the connections and prototyping shown.

Driver App Sitemap

Website Sitemap

Hi-fi Mockups

Rider App Designs

These are the main login and sign up pages as well as the loading and getting started pages.

These are the main pages for the map and booking rides process, as well as the menu page.

Driver App Designs

These are the main login and sign up pages as well as the loading and getting started pages.

Here is the create account page, vehicle information page, a navigation page, and two pages showing the interface before, during, and after a ride is completed.