The project began from a small baseball card trading group consisting of 28 collectors spread across 21 states with the idea of finding a way to share their wants with other collectors to help find cards that are geographically hard to obtain. It expanded to include a broader audience of collections on Twitter and collectors of other sports.
The Problem
Card collectors want to help each other with their card collecting needs so they can fulfill whiles within each others’ collections. A solution to the problem would be to allow collectors to share and post their wanted cards through an online web application and empower them to fill requests from other collectors.
Methods
- Directed Storytelling
- Scenarios
- Surveys
- Competitive Analysis
- User Flow
- Wireframes
- Prototypes
- User Journey Map
Tools
- Google Forms
- Sketch
- Axure
Summary of Role
- Survey users and research applications
- Design product user flow and comps
- Develop interactive prototype
Survey
“Someone will pick up cards for me and I do the same when I see something I think they might need or want.”
“Same collectors send me cards for my personal collections when they don’t need them.”
“I believe every card has a home and sometimes that home is not mine.”
Journey Map
Wireframes
Prototype
Next Steps
The Trading Cards Wish List offers the following opportunities.
- Evaluate the ‘Posting-Updating’ process through usability testing.
- Explore opportunities for user profiles through interviewing and a competitive audit.
- Address the possibility of scolia media sharing through technical evaluation.