Expedia, Inc
Mobile Business Travel
Mobile · UI · UX · Hardware
Overview
Egencia’s mobile and watch app make business travel easy to plan, book, and view updates. The watch app was a short sprint project done with a small team across Seattle and Chicago.
Info
Egencia App Time: 4 weeks Shipped: April 2017 Team: Justin Danks
A sprint to the finish
The native mobile team had some open bandwidth before the annual GTBA conference and decided to pitch the work of creating apps for wearable devices to the design team. I was brought on to co-design the app alongside Justin Danks, Sr. Designer at the time.
Off to Chicago
Once we started talking logistics and breaking down the work, Justin and I decided that it would be best to break apart platforms and each of us would focus on just one, while working together to keep functionality & brand consistence across both. Justin took Apple Watch and I designed for Android Wear. From there we digested the brief and helped to define the scope, since the project would have to be done quickly we decided to work in a sprint style to rapidly design, get feedback and iterate until we were ready to start building. Our developers for android were based in Chicago so we flew out to be able to focus and be as efficient as possible.
Results
The presentation at the GTBA conference was a success and really showed off the value that the mobile products that Egencia has to offer. The products have been utilized since with a 4.6 stars rating on iOS and 4.8 stars on Android. This project also showed the design team that utilizing the spring method in small projects like this is an effective way of bringing value to various teams without costing too many resources.
