2. Demographics
Name : Alex Payne
Age : 28(Male, Single)
Education : Graduate student at UCLA
Profession : Student
Computer proficiency : Advanced
Birth place : USA
Language Proficiency : English/ Spanish
John is undergraduate student at UCLA and has worked for 5 years as Programmer. He is hiker, rock climber and marathon runner. He loves to read about
the culture and psychology. He has been an avid traveller and has travelled most of the places in USA since high school. During the process he has made
several interesting friends with similar passion. His current girlfriend also loves to travel but she is not very comfortable with the places that doesn’t
guarantee the quality of service. When she travels she prefers to stay in down town and John prefers to stay at remote locations and the places which are
closer to nature.
Scenario
After the first year of the graduation John gets the internship ABC corp in France. During his stay over on France for two months internship, John wants to
travel and explore Europe, his girlfriend also promises to come over for a week and discover Europe and France. He is not sure about the places he can stay
and find people with similar interest. Since the language can be a problem hence he is looking for the places and people who have similar interest and he is
able to communicate effectively with them.
User Persona - Traveller
3. Demographics
Name : Barbara Hudson
Age : 45(Female, Single, 2 kids)
Education : MBA, Finance
Profession : Investment Banker
Computer proficiency : Expert
Birth Place : USA
Languages : English/French
Barbara is an Investment Banker and she stays in France with her boyfriend and two kids. Her kids are in hostel and they come to stay with her on
weekends or monthly if busy. Being EXPAT, she has a big house in the center of the city. She is a marathon runner and she has travelled most of the places in
Europe and USA. She in France for two years for work, she has plenty of empty space and house staff to take care of the home. She has many friends who
have travelled like and she is friends with them. She sometime makes plans with her boyfriend to travel to the places and meet new people.
Scenario
Barabara’s boyfriend has moved to London and she has plenty of time at home on weekends, when she is not travelling. She has stayed as guest to others
places while backpacking earlier in her life that she enjoyed. Her guest room is empty most of the time, hence she plans to put that up for travellers so that
she can have some interesting guests with whom she can have good time and share her travel experiences to guide them.
User Persona – Host
5. Step 01 - Start Seekr App
Alex starts the Seekr app to look for
the places in France during his
summer internship.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
6. Step 02 - Go to search place
On the home page of Search Place,
Alex can directly search for the place
he plans to visit or he can view some
the interesting places near by his
location.
User can search for a place
These two icons are
indicators of
• Notifications(Message)
• My Plans
User can search for the city
he is panning to visit.
We can recommend the
interesting places near by
the Traveller to motivate
him to go to places.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
7. Step 02 - View Navigation
On click on Menu icon user can look
at all the options.
On click of menu,
Navigation Menu opens up Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
8. Step 02 - Type your destination
When Alex types Paris in the search
box, it automatically starts to suggest
the related places.
Once the user starts typing
the city the app starts to
recommend the places and
Popular places disappears.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
9. Step 03 - Provide itinerary
details
Alex enters the check in and check
out dates of his stay in France and
enters the number of guests who will
be staying there.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
10. Step 04 - View search results
Alex can look at the search results for
France and he can view the same on
map view and filter results to find
the desired place for him.
Title shows the place name
and total number of results
for the place.
Filter allows to refine the
results
Images, address, rating,
reviews allows user to
select the place.
These 3 icons represent the
information and services of
the Host
• Type of Room(Room,
Roof, Premium)
• Pick/Drop
• Guide
Based upon the choices of
the Host it would be
enabled or disabled
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
11. Step 04 - View search results
Alex can look at the search results for
France and he can view the same on
map view and filter results to find
the desired place for him.
Title shows the place name
and total number of results
for the place.
Filter allows to refine the
results
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
12. Step 04 - View search results
Alex can look at the search results for
France and he can view the same on
map view and filter results to find
the desired place for him.
Title shows the place name
and total number of results
for the place.
On click of filter the color
of the filter icon changes
and it becomes active.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
13. Step 04 - View search results
Alex can look at the search results for
France and he can view the same on
map view and filter results to find
the desired place for him.
This list could as well be
places of interests around
the place of stay
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
14. Step 04 - View search results
Alex can look at the search results for
France and he can view the same on
map view and filter results to find
the desired place for him.
After applying the filter
total number of results
have decreased to 223 from
3000.
Change is color suggests
that the filter has been
applied.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
15. Step 05 - View place
details
Alex can view the details of
the place and history of Host
before he takes the final call.
He can directly Book the place
if he is interested and if he has
any questions then he can
send message to the Host,
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
16. Step 05 - View place details –
send message
A friend of Alex is disabled who plan
to visit him for a day and he wants to
check for the arrangement of a
wheelchair from the Host and after
getting the confirmation from the
Host he will go ahead to book the
place.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
17. Step 07 - Confirmation
Message
Once the message is sent, he gets
confirmation message.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
18. Step 05 - View place
details
Alex can view the details of
the place and history of Host
before he takes the final call.
He can directly Book the place
if he is interested and if he has
any questions then he can
send message to the Host,
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
19. Step 06 - Send Booking
Request
Alex provides the details of his
itinerary to Barbara(Host) to book
his place.
Traveller can choose to book just
Roof or Room or Whole house. Only
few of these options will be enabled
(Set by the Host)
During the booking he can choose
other services such as Pickup/Drop
and Guide.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
20. Step 06 - Send Booking
Request
Alex provides the details of his
itinerary to Barbara(Host) to book
his place.
Traveller can choose to book just
Roof or Room or Whole house. Only
few of these options will be enabled
(Set by the Host)
During the booking he can choose
other services such as Pickup/Drop
and Guide.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
21. Step 06 - Send Booking
Request
Alex provides the details of his
itinerary to Barbara(Host) to book
his place.
Traveller can choose to book just
Roof or Room or Whole house. Only
few of these options will be enabled
(Set by the Host)
During the booking he can choose
other services such as Pickup/Drop
and Guide.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
23. Step 09 - Barbara looks at the
notification
Barbara look at the notification
which is the booking request sent by
Alex.
Host (Barbara Hudson)
Receive Request & Confirm
24. Step 10 - View notification
Barbara will view all the notifications
sent to her at one place.
Host (Barbara Hudson)
Receive Request & Confirm
25. Step 12 - Accept the request of
Alex
After looking at the request of Alex,
Barbara will look at his profile and
other interest and based on same,
she Accepts booking request.
Host (Barbara Hudson)
Receive Request & Confirm
26. Step 13 - Alex stars Seekr
Looks at the notification message on
top.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search & Book
27. Step 14 - View notifications
On notifications Alex looks at the
message from Barbara Accepting the
booking request.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
28. Step 15 - Pay for the room
After confirmation from the Barbara,
Alex makes the payment and
finalizes the booking.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Search Place & Book
29. ▫ User Registration
▫ My Plans
▫ Payment Methods
▫ Current bookings
▫ My Listings
▫ Android Notification
Traveler and Host UI
31. Download and Start Seekr
User can search for Seekr from
Android app store or he can click on
the link to download application if he
received invitation from somewhere.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
32. Welcome screen
for the first time
user
After confirmation from the Barbara,
Alex makes the payment and
finalizes the booking.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
33. Welcome screen
for Existing user
on Existing device
This screen will be shown if the user
uninstalls and then reinstalls the
application.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
It is same as the welcome
screen but only message is
different, it shows up if the
user reinstalls the
application.
34. Welcome screen
for Existing user
on Existing device
Re-Install on the same device
This screen will be shown if the user
uninstalls and then reinstalls the
application.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
User will have to provide
his email address or phone
number to verify the
account. In alpha version
we will provide email
address only.
36. Same user
multiple devices
If user is installing the application on
a separate device then he is give the
option to name the new device and
add to his account.
Note : Should we allow the user to
disconnect other devices.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
All devices associated with
the same account will be
listed here.
37. Backup for
Existing user New
Device
Traveller(Alex Payne)
Signup
In case of same device, user
data will be available on the
cloud that he can sync to
new device.
42. • After importing the User Profile from Couchsurfer,
user will have the option to send invitation to his
friends from the address book of the mobile phone.
• We need to map the friends of CS with addressbook
and send them invitation automatically.
Note to Girish: I am not detailing out this screen,
this we can discuss with the social media features of
the product.
Remaining steps
44. My plans for
Traveler
Note : This screen is very basic
representation of My Plans. Since
this is the heart of the application it
should be more semantic. I have
some sketches on same but I need to
work on more options and detailing
the same.
Idea : Idea is to show the itinerary of
the Traveller on timeline and his
booking details. We’ll show the past
dates in grey-scale.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
My Plans
User will have the option to
filter the list based upon
the status of the plan.
Filter will show
• Booking request sent
• Payment Pending
• Booking confirmed
• Accepted conditionally
• Rejected
45. Detail of a booking
request
Note : Should we show the Status on
the details page of a booking request.
Traveller(Alex Payne)
My Plans
57. My plans screen will show the
details of the plans of the
Traveler
Note : Should we show the show the
filter option on the details page of a
booking request.
Host (Barbara Hudson)
Receive Request & Confirm
60. Notification
Note : We need to decide what
message we want to keep here, we
can give all the Seekr notifications
here or we can show all the
notifications in a group and user can
go the application to view all the
details.
Android Notification