The Royal Cinema Reserve

The critical development of the movie reservation app is to help improve the experience of arranging movie events. The significant advantage of our competitors is the offering of paid membership, which provides additional price benefits for the users. Our goal is to create a platform that focuses on sharing movie information for users to customize their movie experience and further improve the sales of movie theaters.

Project Duration:

September 2022 - May 2023

Project Member:

1

Role & Responsibility:

UX researcher/Designer, UI design, Research, Wireframe,

Prototype, User Testing, Visual Design

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

The Problem:

Most current movie apps are associated or developed with a mother organization of movie broadcasting. The information that appears on the movie apps often favors their associated organizations.

Project Goal:

To decrease the unequal information between movie apps and extend the app service from only ordering tickets to a complete service line of the experience of watching a movie in theaters.

DESIGN SOLUTION

Extending Service

Allow users to include optional food/drink purchases ahead of the movie in a linear user flow.

Sharing Information

A function for sharing tickets and payment requests to help organize larger size movie events.

Route Navigation

Provide information on location and commute services to all participants.

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

Market Research: Competitive audit

Paint Points

  • The physical path of entering the event is lacking.

  • Lack of connection with associated services.

  • Third-party apps do not have full access or complete control of the event.

Design Opportunities

  • Designing a complete loop for users.

  • Extending supporting navigation outside of the core event.

  • Increasing the benefit of third-party organizations.

USER RESEARCH

Survey/interview data collection:

Affinity Analysis

Movie Reservation Function

Pattern Identification

Movie Reservation App Design Insight

Affinity Diagram for social platform

Social platform design insights

USER IDENTITY

Pain points:

  1. Frustration using the movie app for organizing group events. 

  2. Users passively receive movie information and might miss potential movies they are interested in. 

  3. Users cannot know the physical facility setting of the theater room they use for the experience. (i.e., doesn’t know the screen size, so they might not choose the most comfortable seat)

APP DEVELOPMENT

Storyboard

user flow draft