Re-envisioning Virtual Social Party Gaming
Company
Epic Games (mock)
Industry
Communication and Gaming
Duration
2 week Sprint
Date
January 2021
Overview
Houseparty has recently been acquired by Epic Games, the creators of popular competitive battle-royale Fortnite. With Fortnite’s latest integration with the social party gaming app, my collaborators and I were puzzled by the solution that Epic Games had produced. As discussed later, we found that most people found the addition of a video chatting feature integrated into a competitive video game to be quite distracting. The Houseparty app was redesigned and re-envisioned to accommodate Epic Games’ assumed business goal - to get more of their user base to use their newest acquisition. Our goal was to simplify the main user flow of the app through information architecture and visual design changes, as well as incorporating one of Epic Games’ largest assets - their vast game selection, into that main user flow.
Communication 💬
To have more informative conversations with stakeholders, I created user flows and low fidelity mockups and iterated based on the outcomes of those meetings.
Data Ingestion 💻
The table aggregates user and auto-generated accounts needing risk engineering attention. Additionally, users can search the dashboard table to access historical data to reference.
Documentation 📄
All working notes and referrals are stored in the table and in each individual account’s details and notes.
Selecting the right questions
During discovery, I found that risk engineering may ask questions that may result in different answer types (yes/no vs. yes/no/other). A way to visually differentiate between same question/different answer selection choices became apparent.
Managing Templates
The user can quickly see the most relevant information about a template to select the correct one. This design was the final iteration after a result of scoping down engineering effort and usability testing with the user.
Detailed Interactions
If the user is starting from a blank slate, loading a template would be the most usable button. When either a template is loaded or the user has manually added a set of questions, saving the form as a template would be the most usable button.
