Our Location
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
The Project
Sport2Live is a social company, committed to helping people who have or had various problems with addictions, physical, or mental illness through specially designed sports programs. Sport2Live mobile app it’s a simple clear tool that allows volunteers and sports coaches to manage participants’ attendance in the sessions.
Challenge
Together with the Spanish IT-agency Basetis, we define a few main challenges for us. Since it was a volunteer project for a social program, we had to build an easy to use, light wear solution that can be used by coaches independently, without third party assistance. The app shouldn’t have required regular technical support and constant updates.
Ideation
We started from the analysis of existing solutions from the market and made a quick audit of some apps that are commonly used in this niche. Later, we talked to volunteers and coaches, asked them about the ways they conduct classes and sessions. After a few brainstorming workshops, we came up with some ideas on how the app could look like.
Look and feel
Since our target audience consists mostly of volunteers and sports coaches, we diced to choose green as the main color cause it can be associated with energy, life, and sports area. We had also created unique custom icons set that makes interaction much easier.
Final designss
It was extremely important to keep the simplicity of user experience since coaches will use the app right on training sessions, so we came up with minimalistic layouts and a straight sign up flow.
Each sports coach should set up the activities he is performing and select preferable centers’ locations, so the algorithm could prepare a future schedule and add it to the calendar. On a certain date, the coach just needs to click on the activity and the session will start automatically.
At the end of each session, the coach will be able to indicate the group’s attendance and leave personal feedback for each certain participant. The app will also be providing the coach with the statistics of the whole group, single-member, or summary data by types of activities.
We have also developed a responsive single page web application for all the administrators that will manage the whole program, sessions, and groups.
Final thoughts
The designing mobile app for a social volunteer project might sound much easier then it actually is. As a designer or developer, you should think about lots of features and characteristics that will work independently with your intermediation in the future.
