Smart City App

Bhubaneswar Me is a Smart City initiative, providing a single secure portal that acts as a window to the various ... services which is beneficial not only to the government of Odisha but also to the citizens of Bhubaneswar

Overview

Bhubaneswar Me is a Smart City initiative, providing a single secure portal that acts as a window to the various services which is beneficial not only to the government of Odisha but also to the citizens of Bhubaneswar.

It provided services like City Wifi, Public Transport, Post Grievances, Visit Bhubaneswar, Citizen Services, City Events, Public Amenities, Emergency Alert, Smart Card.

Problem

Before this the citizens did not had any app which would allow them to avail all the services in a single application.

Some services were manual and for some they had to visit the site separately. People were unaware of the nearby events that were happening. They were separate sites for each services so user had to login separately which was not a good experience.

Solution

I surveyed around 1000 users knowing their requirement in a closer manner. Also I discussed with the business regarding their needs. After hearing from both sides I mapped out all the problems that people are facing and provided solutions based on that. Creating personas, journey maps helped me to better understand their needs and pain points.

Client

Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited(Government Agency)

Team

Project Manager
Business Analyst
Design Manager
2 UX/UI Designer

My Role

User Research
Conducting Workshops and Interviews
Sketching & Wireframing
Prototyping

Design Process

Test

Test with users

Define

Ideate

Prototype

Empathize

Understand Requirement

Define Problem Statement

Think of Solutions

Create visual mockup

Conduct Interviews

I sat down with the stakeholders, had discussion knowing their vision and goal. What are the services that they want to offer. After knowing the business requirement I conducted online surveys for around 1000 users, asking them about various services, knowing their pain points and getting their feedback. It helped to ideate solutions.

Why this project?

Competitors ?

Business worries

Connecting citizen with city services
Helping citizens to resolve their issues

It was the first time government was taking an initiative for a app like this

Gaining people's trust
To be able provide all possible services in one app

Business Goals

Target Audience

User Expectation

Connecting citizen with city services
Helping citizens to resolve their issues

The target audience were mainly all the citizens of the city.

To be able to easily access all the citizen services.
To be able to post a complain and get it solved.

Affinity Diagram

After collating the feedback from our users, we were able to synthesise our findings using affinity mapping. We observed several patterns and were able to group our findings into similar categories. Among the groups of data collected, we noticed users’ behavior played a pivotal role in our research. We were able to coordinate the findings and define the problem statement.

Problem Statement

To create an app as a smart solution to all problems of the city. The key features should :

1. post grievance when face a problem

2. explore the city

3. e-municipality services

4. alert an emergency

5. know current weather

6. read latest news

7. get to know events organised near you.

8. track all amenities near you from map

User Personas

After defining the problem statement, we spend some time synthesising and were able to come up with three personas. Two personas are categorised generally under high involving users, low involving users