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Homely-Apartment finding with VR

Homely - Finding houses and apartments

Overview

A Landlord and Tenant Service Provider App UX Design Case Study

Roles

  • Lead designer
  • Interaction designer
  • Visual designer
  • Prototype
  • Project manager
  • Design system

Introduction

The Homely app is a service provider app for both landlords, property owners & Tenants. It’s a real estate app where a landlord can easily sell or rent his/her own property by placing their properties of houses on the homely app and finding suitable tenants.

 

Problems

How can I create an app that Nigerians will adapt to easily and go to for their housing needs, how do I solve the housing hunt problem and revolutionize the way people search for houses and find tenants in Nigeria. Also, a tenant can also create an account on the platform and find apartments without needing a real estate agent. Tenants can also watch videos of each section of the apartments or a Virtual reality tour of the apartment this helps them skip the agent fee process and time-wasting or discrepancy.

Main 5 challenges for tenants in Nigeria

  • Finding apartments that do not meet your taste or standard.
  • Estate agents are not very honest about details and can frustrate you.
  • Most times the budget is less than the price in relation to the location and the picture of the apartment that the tenants planned for.
  • Fake Agents who just want to waste your time by showing you fake apartments.

Solutions

Tenant can also create an account on the platform and find apartments without needing a real estate agent. Tenants can also watch videos of each section of the apartments or a Virtual reality tour of the apartment this helps them skip the agent fee process and time-wasting or discrepancy.

Design Process or Thinking Process

Understand

Understand the problem and gather up requirement

UX research

Scenario, User journey map,user stories

Design

Information architecture,sketch flows, visual designs, prototype

Validate

Iterate

User Personas

My target audience includes students, youths and adults. Students trying to get accommodation around school environments like Lasu, Yabatech and Unilag often find it hard finding accommodations since they do not like staying in the school hostels. Also, the available spaces are insufficient to house students. Young people looking to move to big cities like Lagos are usually discouraged by the agent fees added to the cost of rent and also disappointments when they cannot find their taste of apartment. Individuals and families who are looking for apartments that are conducive and befitting of a family most times do not find the ideal housing solutions for their needs.
David just wants a comfortable apartment where he can work remotely from. Electricity supply is important to him so he is looking for a quiet neighbourhood where he can safely live and work from.

The Remilekun’s

They spend a lot of time outdoors due to the nature of their job, they want an apartment in a safe neighbourhood where they can raise their kids and build their lives together.

Userflow

In order for me to create a user flow or journey for users of this app, I had to take a few steps back to understand the User objectives.

User Objectives:

  • What do I want prospective tenants to do on the app?
  • How fast can i make the app accessible for clients and tenants?

Hifidelity Designs

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

Wireframes

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

Hifidelity Designs

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

DESIGN SYSTEM

Clickable Prototype

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

Conclusion

With the user stories developed and a better understanding of the live streaming framework the engineering team used, the design team was tasked in 4 weeks to establish an experience that would be design against the user stories created for the product.

 
 

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