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Volt Smart Soccer Ball
Volt is a smart soccer ball designed for coaches to improve their immediate feedback to players. Use the Volt AI assistant to ask any question about how your team and players are performing. Volt also uses kinetic energy harvesting to make the balls self-charging.
Mobile App Prototype
Commercial
Field Research
Class Soccer Match
As a class we got to do some drills and scrimmage with help from one of the women’s soccer coaches at KU. It was a great experience to dribble and feel the ball. This was great real life research to see how I could make the soccer ball better.
KU Women's Soccer
I was able to go to a soccer practice at the University of Kansas to make observations and talk to the players. This interview was very beneficial because I got to learn what was most important to track in an app to improve their skills. It was also very helpful to see how the practice was run and how I could apply this to features within my app.
Meet Jeff
- College Soccer Coach
- 48 Years Old
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jeff coaches the Milwaukee Panthers Women’s soccer team and has practice almost every day. Jeff has loved coaching for a long time and he is very passionate about helping his players get better.
Data Comfort
Tech Speed
Detail Level
Comparison
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DribbleUp
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Super iBall
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User Research
Usability Testing
I did usability testing for the app, in which I gave the user a task to complete. I learned that my AI swipe up was busy and hard to read. and that there needed to be black added to the text and outlines for readability.
A/B Testing
Doing a simple A/B form with 10 questions helped to fine tune my app. This helped me a lot with spacing and sizing of buttons. I found that less is more in this case. I was able to change the images of the balls and players and also change the weights of some outlines thinner and make them more subtle.
User Flow
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