Overview

Bizaar is a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects users with Instructors in their area. It is a marketplace where skills, talents, expertise and craft of all creed and kind, are not just part of an exchange between customer and provider, but something to be celebrated and shared in a well-lit online community. I've talked about developing Bizaar's brand, and booking/discovery process here.

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Main Objective

Create dashboard for both Instructors and users

We decided that Bizaar would need a more complex Dashboard unlike most other marketplaces that would allow Instructors and Users to keep track of their schedule, their transactions, their clients, their messages and more.

Initial Research

Open Card Sorting

On Optimalsort, I put down all of the features that we were planning, and had users sort them into: Settings, Inbox, My Planner, Transactions, My Profile, one blank one, and one titled Essentials.

Project Insights

It was extremely useful having an "Essential" category. I was able to find features that I could put on the dashboard home page. I've found in the past that users have a set expectation when labeling things in "Home"- they put things that they think should go on home, not things that are essential to see.

I decided to name the last one "My Class", as the odd features out related to information review about classes that users created.

Bizaar uses Sharetribe, so to make the Dashboard design, and fit in all of the features, we put "Account Settings" and "My Profile" under a different navigation area.

IDEATION: PROTOTYPE

You can find a full prototype of the site here

IDEATION: MOCKUPS

For a write-up about creating the Bizaar brand, and booking process click here.