Navmii

Navmii is a free community-based navigation and traffic app, available in 197 countries and used by over 30 million users. Their mapping, navigation and location technologies are trusted by companies including Microsoft, Ocado, Aviva and Shell.

Challenge

The user interface of the existing Navmii iOS and Android apps hadn’t been updated in a few years, and the team at Navmii gave a challenge: create a clean, modern up-to-date UI, in addition to tackling some key user experience problems whilst laying the foundations for further feature additions.

Impact

Working within a 5-day UX Sprint, we modernized the entire Navmii interface across iOS and Android, delivering over 60 screens with a fresh, contemporary design language. We solved critical UX issues around route planning and real-time navigation while creating a flexible component system that would accommodate future feature additions. The redesign brought Navmii's interface in line with current mapping app standards while maintaining the familiar experience their 30 million users trusted.

How we helped

User research
Market Research
Wireframing - Low-fidelity, high-fidelity
UX design
Design system
Prototyping
User testing
Icon design

Approach

Pre-flight

We had a four hour meeting the week before the sprint to meet the team, discuss the project brief, walkthrough the product, confirm the deliverables and obtain any necessary assets before the first day of the sprint.

Daily calls

Every morning we had a 15 minute stand up with the Navmii team

Show & Tell

At the end of each day we sent an email with a link to a prototype plus a video screencast of us presenting our work to the Navmii team

Prototyping

Prototypes not presentations - we prefer to show prototypes instead of screens. This allowed the Navmii team to walk through user journeys instead of a set of static screens.

Handover

We performed three rounds of user testing which were all recorded. The video recordings, feedback and results all made available to the Navmii team, and written up into a user testing report.