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About Me

Hi! My name is Eric Zhu.

I am currently living in Dallas Texas.

• B.A. in Animation

• MFA in Web Design & New Media

• Passion in making things come true

• Love painting and video games

The Motivation ?

You don't have to be great to start,

But you have to start to be great

- zig zagler

I was poor in soccer back the day in college. Since everybody is better than me, I always played as goal keeper and my skill set doesn't get improved at all. But I enjoyed the time that I spent with my friends. For now my friends only play pick up games. Because there is no opportunity for them to join official matches. I really want to make something new to help them and also wanna give myself another chance to play the sport that I used to love.

Inspiration

User Research

This statistic illustrates the number of soccer players within the last 12 months in the United States (USA) from autumn 2009 to spring 2015.

This statistic shows the number of social network users worldwide from 2010 to 2015 with projections until 2019. In 2018, it is estimated that there will be around 2.55 billion social network users around the globe, up from 1.87 billion in 2014.

The Problems

• Soccer games require 22 players not even including the backup players.

• The positions that players play are quite random.

• Solo players are hard to find formal games to play.

• Players’ skill sets don‘t match.

My Solutions

• Team - Matching the game as a team is way easier than finding the solo players

• Position - Let players set their perfence positions

• Games - Provide formal 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 game options

• Ratings - Evaluate team level and players skill sets to increase the quailty of the match

Concept Video

Target Audience

• Primary

Age From 16 To 35

Soccer players

• Secondary

Age From 25 To 44

Soccer coaches

Key Competitors

Team APP

Team App is a platform that allows any sports club, social group or organisation to create and manage their own smartphone App.

Pros

Fully customizeable and very functional mobile app. Easy for users to communicate with each other. Users are notified immediately of a change in schedule & games are added automatically into your cell phone calendar. There is also a map you can click to determine how far your game location is.

Cons

It takes time for users to set the team up and use it to invite other people in. It also limits the target audience in those who have already known each other. In term of user experience, the menu panel is too crowded to be clicked.

Extractable Features

• Mini map for the upcoming game location

• Push notification

• Customizeable team logo

Key Competitors

Team Snap

TeamSnap is an application for group or team management help. Focus on team development and coaching, and let this management app help with the day-to-day organization and communication of a team or group.

Pros

Very well organized events schedule and teamsnap also syncs with users Calendar, so they don't have to worry about updating multiple calendars. Users can share the photos with the entire team.

Cons

It uses more and more capability of your mobile storage as long as you stay in the team since the photos are automatically saved in your phone and it only can be used for one team.

Extractable Features

• Stats options for events

• Buttons that used to contact users via email or phone and provide direction to their address

Key Competitors

Meetup

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face.

Pros

The Meetup platform will allow your group to have ability to announce your event and send out messages to your members. Meetup will promote your new group to all Meetup Members who have expressed an interest in your topic.

Cons

• Meetup is not free

• Meetup is constantly promoting other groups to your members right on your Meetup group page and via email. People see a Meetup group as less professional, less trustworthy, and less deserving of their money.

Extractable Features

• Track RSVPs

• Event Calendar

• Collect online dues and event fees

Persona + User Story

• Roy Hinkley

• New User - soccer player

Roy is always a solo soccer player. Finding a spot sometimes can be time consuming and need some luck. Although he really loves playing as a forward, it has rarely happened for him since he is always asked to filled the position that those random teams need.

• Peter Parker

• Returning User - soccer player

Peter has installed Team Builder and used before. He joined a team last week and had a good time with the game. Even more he made some friends in the team that he joined. Now he really wants to join soccer games with his team again.

• Simon Mc Fall

• Returning User - school soccer coach

Simon is a high school soccer coach. He chose Team Builder to manage his players and schedule so that he can make sure every player knows the information of the upcoming game. Inner tactics feature also helps him to switch player.