Miner Perks

Design New Application
Project Overview
The The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Miner Perks Employee Discount Program (EDP) is a place UTEP employees and retirees can find discounts and special services offered by different businesses via the Miner Perks app.
Role
Visual Design, Interaction and Prototyping.

November 2022 – April 2022 (five months)
Background
I was a solo designer on this project, and I worked on this project from gathering requirements to final visual UI.
The Process
  • Understanding
  • Define
  • Ideate
  • Test
Goal
After gathering the requirements from the stakeholders and worked on ideas the following were the goals of the project:  

Create two responsive applications one for the university employees and retirees to search for discounts and another one for the HR Department to administer the discounts the employees will have access to when accessing the app.

Employees Application‍
  • Search for perks.
  • Add perks to your favorites.
  • Download coupons.
  • Refer a business to be added to the perks.
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HR Administrator Application
  • Add categories, business and perks.
  • Edit categories, business and perks.
  • Delete categories, business and perks.
  • Review business referred by the users (employees).
Employees App Flow
Employees App Visual Design
Desktop
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Mobile
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Administrator App Flow
Administrator App Visual Design
Desktop
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Mobile
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Test Prototypes

To test the applications prototypes, I decided to conduct an in-person usability test using a prototyping tool.

Personas: Faculty, Staff and HR Employee (Admin)
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The test was conducted with 5 participants for each persona.

A test for each application prototype (mobile and desktop) was conducted. We captured each participant’s navigational choices, task completion rates, and comments.

After analyzing the findings the prototypes were updated with the possible solutions and retested. Text and small layout changes where made to improve the user experience.  A total of 60 participants were part of the research.


Develop Designs

Once the possible solutions worked and the prototypes were updated. The designs were presented and handed-off to the web developers’ team and QA team to start with development of the two applications.
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