A General Manager of an arena is responsible for the financial success and overall operations of a venue. The GM needed an easy way in real-time to monitor if event sales are going well to keep on top of the financials. He is a person on-the-go, in and out of the building all day long, so getting pdf documents emailed was inconvenient and not timely.
Our high-level strategic goals were:
We studied the landscape of related apps, in particular in the FinTech sector, as well as apps from Ticketmaster and Eventbrite.
Our activities included:
"I applaud you for looking at making an app like this. You will have significant growth opportunities for users like me who want information at different points of the event cycle."
After our interview sessions we were able to create a persona for an arena General Manager, who would be the target user for the first release. View PDF of persona write-up.
Once our team had a better understanding of the business context and competitors, I organized a design ideation session with cross-functional stakeholders. We sketched the first ideas that became input for our initial prototypes.
From the many interesting sketches from the ideation session, we distilled the ideas with the Product Manager to decide on prototypes to test with customers.
The first iteration was a grayscale version used to confirm the flow and features. This is the final prototype in InVision.
The screens below demonstrate how the design iterated and progressed for one of the screens.
Every project has a few bumps along the way and this one was no exception to that.
The CTO decided to put this project on pause two different times during the creating of the MVP version.
Along the way when the project was on pause, the developers and product managers changed, I was like the glue to hold it together, and was able to get them up to speed on our research, prototypes and goals.
The first release of this new product offering was used by a small group of customers who provided valuable feedback for the subsequent iterations. The users were extremely happy and excited to finally have this product to help run their business.
I left the company before additional versions were created, but design and development did continue with a new team. This product is now live on the iOS and Android app stores for B2B customers to use. The current versions have additional features, all of which we had discovered during our research phase.
Paciolan published a press release when the app was available to a wider customer base.
This video displays the first version of the app hosted in the company’s development environment using sample client data.