Dancerpedia

Role: UX/UI, Interaction and Visual Designer       Year: 2022       Tools: Figma, Usability Hub, Photoshop, Adobe XD
Project Overview
Due to limitations in dance studios, learners want the ability to find resources easily on the go. Dancerpedia features built-in programs and easy genre searching in this innovative mobile app to help dancers get started.
My Contributions
Dancerpedia is a self learning web app that I developed, from conception to execution. I was the main designer working on this app in Spring 2022.
High-Fidelity Prototype
Learning to dance can be very daunting on your own. There are so many resources that it’s often difficult to figure out where to start. Giving dancers the ability to filter videos available for free online and follow a training schedule required a lot of innovative thinking to make this process as simple as possible.
The Problem
Goals
User: Learn how to dance online
Business: Increase the opportunity to learn dance for those who don’t live near a dance studio
Product: Design a responsive website for finding and viewing dance tutorials
Design Process
Dance is inaccessible to a lot of people. The most complex part about designing a website of this caliber was addressing all the potential filtering possibilities and how to go about approaching the best filtering method. To ensure ease of use for people wanting to learn dance, an organizational system was put in place by genre.
Research
To make sure the basic user flow of finding classes to take functioned as it should and was straightforward, two rounds of user testing took place. 

There are plenty of paid services that have dance classes, but there isn’t a service that catalogs and makes free resources more digestible. Some features that are in the most demand are genre sorting and making it less daunting to find a place to start learning.

How it works

Filtering
The process of sifting through hundreds of thousands of videos is time consuming and overwhelming. We made it easier to find and filter through dance videos available on websites like Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.
Before this web app was created, dancers had to go search through hundreds of thousands of videos with no guidance of where to start. With genre search, dancers can search by genre and filter results within that genre to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Playback and Suggested
Video tutorials are displayed in an interactive way and recommended videos in the same series are underneath for ease of continued learning.
Results
The feedback we received from dancers was extremely positive with many noting that the filtering helped a lot with finding where to start. The main factor for success for this app would be high sign up rates daily and the completing of videos/programs.