Company: Continental Automotive
Role: Contract - UI/UX Designer
Date: March, 2020 - June, 2020
Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Proto.io
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In 2020, Continental Automotive in Santa Clara, CA came to me to design the Virtual Key app for Nissan Cars. I worked with Product Manager Patrick Muggler to design screens and interactions for their first ever mobile application to control different operations of their vehicle lineup across six models totalling close to 2.1 million vehicles with up to 7 users per vehicle in the United States alone. |
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The Product Management Team at Continental already had the product requirements established and had some initial wireframes created. My job was to:
- Create a whole new visual design, with respect to the existing Nissan Brand Guidelines
- Improve and refine existing flows, while adding additional administrative capabilities for Nissan/Infiniti dealers
- Design simplified interactions and methods to manage different levels of access to each vehicle for different users
- Provide all graphical assets and libraries to support engineering development
| THE PROTOTYPE I used Proto.io to create this prototype. I was designing a feature where users wanted to be able to unlock and enable the start button of the vehicle in one action. Proto.io has this level of detail and programmability. | |
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ONE ACTION, TWO OPERATIONS
Users wanted a simpler way to both unlock the car and enable the start button. This would allow the driver to swipe once, get into the car and press the start button, rather than press both buttons separately
HISTORICAL VIEW
View all historical events among all users of the vehicle
UP TO 7 DIFFERENT USERS
Add family and friends--all with different combinations of access and on custom schedules
CUSTOMIZED PERMISSIONS
Access can be customized per user. The goal was to make these screens as user-centric as possible.
TRANSFER THE VEHICLE
Transferring mobile app access to the vehicle upon sale needed to be an easy process. Rather than directing users to a URL to sign in and do it there, we used QR codes--one on the seller's phone for the buyer to scan.
