I’ve always loved going to the movies, and it is usually even more rewarding finding out that there is additional content after the credit rolls. However, I realized that many of us usually leave too early and miss the extra credits scene or leave too late and regret staying because the scene isn’t worth staying at all. When we spend our time searching online if a movie contains a post-credits scene, we risk the chance of spoiling the scene ourselves.

To counter having to wait for a worthy after-credits scene, I've decided to design a fun and easy-to-use app that is mainly for movie lovers to see whether or not a movie has a post-credits scene and if it’s worth staying.

I conducted a survey on 13 participants that combined both quantitative and qualitative questions to draft a proper user persona for my solution. These users are between the age of 19 through 28, and are currently in college that loves watching movies.

Users voted on the following features to be added into the app:

After having enough sketches, I decided it was time to turn my sketches into lo-fi designs and brought it to six potential users for collective feedback.

After the feedback responses, I began to reconfigure the design problems that users faced during the testing stage. In addition, I also conducted another survey on the same six - and four new - participants to see what can be improved to the overall experience of the app’s functionality.

I’ve made an adaptation for smartwatch users and narrowed some features from the app to the watch’s interface.

The main purpose of the smartwatch interface is to give a faster and more lenient navigation than its mobile counterpart.

Users can swipe to switch to different pages for quick access.

After finalizing my high-fidelity designs, I presented the final product to a group of participants for usability testing and received well positive feedback. To my surprise, I didn’t realize that the app worked better than it had intended. Participants mentioned that they enjoyed navigating through the app, and felt that there are very little roadblocks when they complete a task.

If you are interested in seeing the full user tasks breakdown, please click here (Google Doc link)!

The next move is to fully test all the functionality on smartwatch and create a proper solution on how users can save a bit more time using it. In addition, it would be very unique to bring the experience onto the web application/browser to include a more range of users. Though it wasn’t a part of the project, the logo would also need some refining as well.

The toughest part of this challenge was to go back and test every iteration and implementations to fit the user's needs. Since my main goal was to seek feedback and work through them, it was challenging meeting everyone’s expectations and goals to deliver a product and not worry about having it go south.

I was expecting my first draft would get me through most of the problems, however I’ve realized that nothing is perfect in one go and problem-solvers like myself need to hear that at least once.

I’ve learned that design thinking involves a lot of repeated steps and actions in order to fully “perfect” a product. Even at the final stage of the project, it feels that there is always more room for improvements and ideas.

I dove deep into relying on user feedback and iterating through those challenges, as it was the most fun yet difficult part of the project itself. By doing so, I was able to draft and give myself problems to solve through.

I also enjoyed the process of gathering user input, and by doing so, I learned that bringing more inclusivity and diversity such as expanding to TV shows and games helps tremendously within the app experience.