Escape Knox

Tools: 🖌 Photoshop | 💻 Unity

I worked with a team of two other students to create an app that would help other Knox students find out more information for CS 340, User Experience.

The problem

Through contextual interviews with other students, our team found that many students at our school had little information about the services that the career center provides.

The product

Per the class instructions, our solution to the problem we found through the interviews had to involve a video game to inform students about the topic. Based on the games that our interviewees found most interesting, we decided to base our game off of escape rooms.

For this project, my team and I (everyone was involved in each step of the process):

Built user profiles
Created environmental profiles
Determined red routes
Chose qualitative and quantitative measures of success
Created a storyboard
Produced a UI flowchart
Made and tested with a paper prototype
Created low-fidelity mocks
Iterated over a couple of digital prototypes using Unity

We created low-fidelity mocks of the app in LucidChart before implementing the app in Unity:

Low-fidelity mocks of various screens in the app.

Reflection

If I were to do this project again, I might have looked more closely at what prevents students from using career center resources and targetted a solution more towards that. Additionally, I'm not sure I would have created an app to accomplish this.