Gaia Dressing Room & Inventory
Oct - Dec 2008
Project Description
Dressing up avatar is an essential task for GaiaOnline users. Users constantly go through their inventory, sometimes it consists hundreds of assets, to find the best match to express their mood for the moment. At Q4 of 2008, Gaia decides to redesign the feature in order optimize the experience, and potentially modulize the experience for other features.
At the beginning of the project, my team went through the process to brainstorm and concepting. I conducted competitor analysis to understand the market. Quickly within two weeks, my team came up numerous of concept UI. Since it was still at the stealth mode in term of our new feature, we decided to collect user feedback internally. We posted the concepts of the environment and the basic interaction in the dinning hall, where people line up to get food. We collected enough data and felt confident to make preliminary decision before we present it to the executive team.
Contribution
- Actively explored multiple aspects and ways to interact with avatars including dressing up, changing poses, and avatar expressions.
- Solved fundamental information organization problems while designing the avatar inventory.
- Designed 2D avatar inventory environment to mimic an interactive, engaging 3D environment in order to enhance the user experience.
- Actively sought internal feedback on designed interactions in progress while formalizing plans to obtain and compile external feedback.
- Designed features and products intended for Flash environments.
- Wireframe for UI/UX:
- Exploration of layouts of the screen:
- Exploration of modes:
