WeSport App - Find a tennis match
The Product
WeSport is a platform that offers sport enthusiasts the possibility to find a match for a sport they want to practice, like : tennis, squash, table tennis, badminton, snooker or 8-Ball.
Duration:
November 2021 – July 2022 (with pauses)
Team:
Vladimir Șerban – research, mockup design, prototyping
linkedin.com/in/vladimir-serban
Cristian Mielu- research, mockup design, prototyping
Research
After conducting a research on Google, I’ve gathered useful quantitative data about ways to find a matching partner for playing tennis, and demographic statistics:
How to find a matching tennis partner?
– Ask the nearest tennis club near your location
– Join a social media tennis group
– Make an account join tennis dedicated platforms on web
– Install and make an account on tennis dedicated apps from App Store, Google Play or any other providers
Tennis Participation Statistics
– Based on 2019 data, 87 million play tennis worldwide, which is approx. 1.17% of the global population
– 47% of tennis players are female and 53% are male
– There were a total of 3873 professional tennis players ranked in 2017
– 25 million people play tennis in Europe, 12% of which live in the UK
– 17.84 million people play tennis in the United States
What age group plays tennis the most?
– In the US, 40% of all tennis participants are over 35 years of age, with over 10% that have 55+ years old
What age group plays tennis the most?
– In the US, 40% of all tennis participants are over 35 years of age, with over 10% that have 55+ years old
Popularity of Tennis Around the World
The problem
Tennis and similar sports practicants who lives or travels in Big Cities and wants to find better matches for their practice
The goal
Design an app for WeSport, providing to users a platform throught they can find a match for tennis practicing
My role
UX researcher and UX/UI designer for WeSport App
Responsabilities
Make the user researches, design mockups, make prototyping, conduct usability studies
Persona
Sese Secu
Age: 37
Education: International Business
Hometown: Frankfurt
Family: married, 1 child
Occupation: Sales Manager
“Keep improving and never let the hard times break you down,
but embrace those and become wiser and powerful”
Goals
– Find a way to harmonize my professional life and work with my personal life and hobbies
– Making a routine of playing tennis at least 3 times a week
Frustrations
– It’s not so easy to find a suitable partner for my tennis level to play with
– My job offers a lot of stresful work to do, and this hinders me a little to organise my tennis matches as I wish
Sese moved from Mumbai to Frankfurt 3 years ago due to his job and promotion opportunities from his employer. As a child, Sese practiced tennis during the summer holiday, a sport from which he learned to be competitive and disciplined.
Sese likes and values his profession very much, but from time to time, due to work duties, burnout sets in, so he considers tennis a perfect hobby for competitive satisfaction and detachment from his thoughts loaded with information about the job.
User Journey Map
User flow - Login - Filter for matches - send matching request
Figma prototyping
App Screens
