SpeedShop App

There is no convenient place on the internet or app store where you can seamlessly buy and sell pre-1975 car parts for restoration, hot rods, customs, and motorcycles without getting scammed. To buy and sell car parts today, one would need to scour lots of websites, post on social media, and risk getting scammed.

SpeedShop creates a space where buying and selling vintage car parts is easy. The ease is in part with making secure transactions on the app, messaging sellers and buyers, and enabling a sort and search function to find a car part quickly. The hope is to eliminate many hoops for buyers and sellers to get the right amount for their car. The app intends to have a simplistic design, so older and younger folks can use it quickly.

My role with SpeedShop is to visually create an application that solves the inability to buy and sell vintage car parts and conduct user research. Although the project was over several weeks, I was able to interview two car enthusiasts for user research. In my research, I learned that I must create an inclusive and straightforward design accessible to all generations and curate a hot spot for buying and selling vintage car parts.

I established the applications main goal as to buy and sell pre-1975 car parts on a secure platform. After conducting the research behind the app, I found that there is no other platform like it on the app store, and the only other websites that provide the service of buying and selling vintage car parts need to be updated, updated, and are difficult to find. Making an empathy map helped me realize how to solve common issues in buying vintage car apps. I used this information to create an impact effort matrix by laying out features that would make the app more helpful. The essential elements in the app came from creating the matrix and collecting user research, such as the filter and sort option in search, making user profiles, and having a seamless checkout. Each order will be from an approved reseller, which eliminates scammers from stealing money from innocent people. Overall, conducting research for SpeedShop made the design process smoother because I had a clear direction of what features I wanted to implement in the app.

My main takeaways from this project have been that it is beneficial to conduct user research before diving into a project. The research helped me form the application in a way that I would not have designed it if it wasn’t for the new information I learned. I think asking people in-depth questions allows for better user research results because I could tune the app to follow future users' desires. I thought the entrepreneurial aspect of developing an app that could help people was helpful because now I have the skills to invent an app confidently.