Link to the “About” sectionAbout
Belot scoring is fiddly. People still reach for a notepad. A wave of App Store apps tried to replace paper. Most barely beat pen and paper. We keep using them anyway.
Recently, the app we used most got removed from the App Store. The developer stopped supporting it. Time for a change.
Link to the “My Role” sectionMy Role
Solo project: visual identity, UI/UX, and implementation.
Link to the “Current Solutions” sectionCurrent Solutions
The most-used Belot score app is still the benchmark. It is the least bad option, not a good one.
- It takes up to two taps to start score input.
- The score input screen mixes two score categories into one number. That confuses people.
- The app targets smaller phones. Most of the UI does not scale on the bigger phones we have today.
Link to the “Objectives” sectionObjectives
Existing apps pair weak UI with confusing score entry and hard-to-read chrome. I wanted to rethink input and clean up the interface.
- Halve the taps to start score input.
- Make score entry as frictionless as possible.
- Design for iPhone SE and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Link to the “Prototype” sectionPrototype
The final score input flow:
Link to the “Solving Challenges” sectionSolving Challenges
Link to the “Starting the Score Input” sectionStarting the Score Input
- Pick the team to score for right from the home screen.
- Score fields read as tappable at a glance.
App homescreen
App homescreen with annotations
Link to the “Simplifying the Score Input” sectionSimplifying the Score Input
Declarations are just combinations of 20, 50, 90, 100, 150, and 200. No need for a number pad. Separate buttons work better.
Score input screen
Annotated elements of the score input screen
Link to the “Mockups” sectionMockups
App mockup
App mockup 2
Link to the “iPhone SE (1st Generation)” sectioniPhone SE (1st Generation)
Mockup on the original iPhone SE:
iPhone SE 1 mockup
Link to the “What I Learned” sectionWhat I Learned
Do not accept tools you dislike. I use an alpha build of this app daily. It makes scorekeeping a little easier. I'll close with my favorite Steve Jobs quote:
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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