YouBike
Mobile Application Redesign & Development
YouBike is the most popular public bike-sharing service in Taiwan and is well acknowledged by the public with its penetration and convenience as the last mile of public transportation.
In late 2015, YouBike started planning to launch its first oversea service branch on a contract with Quanzhou City Council in China. Due to the differences of business requirement for Quanzhou area, YouBike decided to build its next-generation
system for future global franchise.
Redesigning mobile application is one of the necessary portions of it. YouBike Quanzhou service went live in June 2016.
Role
Interaction Designer
Mobile Developer
Skills & Tools
Wireframing
Xcode / Objective-C
Android Studio / Java
Zeplin
Team Members
Eason Hsiao
Problems
There are usability issues can easily be found in the original mobile application released in Taiwan. Not only the doubts of application stability, users also have critiques on interface design and user experience from many perspectives
-
Complex & confusing user flow
-
Excessive & redundant information
-
Outdated visual interface design
Solution
Along with overall interface redesign, we emphasize on several feature for bring better user experience.
Station Map & Station List
Display map primarily, supported centralized bike station list module and search function.
Bike Station Map
Station List Module
Station Info Banner
Navigation Menu
Centralized navigation with hamburger menu
General Functions
Map, News, Service Center, Instruction, Lost & Found
Advanced functions
Sign up, Sign in, Card Management, Maintenance
Map Marker
As requested of using “Smile logo” for map markers, we came up a design of displaying smile logo as default and switching to detail map marker as user zoom in.
Development
Realm
As local database storage on device to save a station data for offline access
Development CocoaPod
Encapsulate all api services as an development pod
Access pod via git repo or submodule
Networking
AFNetwork for iOS
Retrofit for Android
Use JSON as the format of requests & responses
Google Map & Baidu Map
Flexible design to incorporate different map frameworks for future requirement
Use BaiduMap in Quanzhou, China
Use GoogleMap for the rest of the world
Version Control
GitLab
