TOURNAMENT MANAGEMENT MVP DESIGN
SportSync helps tournament organizers stay on top of every match by making it easy to manage teams, schedule games, and update tournament progress—all in one smooth and hassle-free platform.
TOURNAMENT MANAGEMENT MVP DESIGN
TOURNAMENT MANAGEMENT MVP DESIGN
SportSync helps tournament organizers stay on top of every match by making it easy to manage teams, schedule games, and update tournament progress—all in one smooth and hassle-free platform.
SportSync helps tournament organizers stay on top of every match by making it easy to manage teams, schedule games, and update tournament progress—all in one smooth and hassle-free platform.
My Role
My Role
Product Designer
Product Designer
Duration
Duration
2024-Present
2024-Present
Client
Client
DigiAxix
DigiAxix
Tools Used
Tools Used
Figma, Miro
Figma, Miro
PROBLEM STATEMENT
PROBLEM STATEMENT
During tournaments, organizers struggle with managing teams, updating match results, and tracking progression efficiently. Manual processes and scattered tools cause delays and miscommunication, frustrating team owners and affecting tournament flow.
During tournaments, organizers struggle with managing teams, updating match results, and tracking progression efficiently. Manual processes and scattered tools cause delays and miscommunication, frustrating team owners and affecting tournament flow.
SOLUTION
SOLUTION
A centralized platform enabling team owners to manage rosters seamlessly and organizers to assign teams, schedule matches, and update results through an interactive bracket system. This streamlines tournament operations, reduces errors, and enhances the user experience.
A centralized platform enabling team owners to manage rosters seamlessly and organizers to assign teams, schedule matches, and update results through an interactive bracket system. This streamlines tournament operations, reduces errors, and enhances the user experience.
Easy Team management
Tournament Organizers will be able to invite Team Managers, who can easily add their team
members.
Tournament Organizers will be able to invite Team Managers, who can easily add their team members.
Tournament Organizers will be able to invite Team Managers, who can easily add their team members.
Flow of adding players to a team
Interactive Brackets
A simple & interactive click-and-select bracket, which will enable easy scheduling, updating of matches within a tournament.
A simple & interactive click-and-select bracket, which will enable easy scheduling, updating of matches within a tournament.
Flow of creating a tournament with interactive brackets
Research
Due to constraint in budget allocation, we decided to proceed with a secondary research.
Secondary research methods—competitor analysis and user listening via open communities like Reddit—revealed key pain points. Three user groups were identified and placed on a scale from most to least important to our project goals, as shown below:
Due to constraint in budget allocation, we decided to proceed with a secondary research.
Secondary research methods—competitor analysis and user listening via open communities like Reddit—revealed key pain points. Three user groups were identified and placed on a scale from most to least important to our project goals, as shown below:
Overview
Unlike existing solutions that bundle unnecessary features like payments and score tracking, this app focuses solely on tournament structuring. The overall process of this project is not from point A to B, but a constant iteration from one point to another.
Overview of the project’s Figjam board.
Structuring
The app structure was organized to reflect user needs, ensuring:
Organizers could create and manage tournaments easily.
Team owners could update team details without friction.
Players had a clear, accessible way to view their team’s journey
Information Architecture for Organizer user group
WIREFRAMING & REFINEMENTS
WIREFRAMING & REFINEMENTS
Initial Concepts
Initial Concepts
During the ideation phase, low-fidelity wireframes were created to visualize core functionalities and user interactions before committing to high-fidelity designs. These helped refine the user experience by allowing quicker iterations based on feedbacks from team, potential users before moving to detailed UI design and there were multiple changes where even some concepts were discontinued.
During the ideation phase, low-fidelity wireframes were created to visualize core functionalities and user interactions before committing to high-fidelity designs. These helped refine the user experience by allowing quicker iterations based on feedbacks from team, potential users before moving to detailed UI design and there were multiple changes where even some concepts were discontinued.
Overview of the Low-fidelity wireframes
Refinement to High-Fidelity
Refinement to High-Fidelity
Taking into note the challenges imposed by previous designs, the team came together to help refine the designs better to fit the intended users, taking into note time & budget.
Dashboard for organizers
Log In and onboarding
Team and team member adding
Creating a tournament
NEXT STEPS
NEXT STEPS
Early User Testing: Conduct usability tests with tournament organizers and team owners to refine workflows.
Refine Mobile UI: Further optimize the mobile experience based on feedback.
Enhance Developer Handoff: Improve design documentation to streamline the transition from UX/UI to development.
Launch MVP & Gather Feedback: Track real-world usage and iterate based on user needs.
Early User Testing: Conduct usability tests with tournament organizers and team owners to refine workflows.
Refine Mobile UI: Further optimize the mobile experience based on feedback.
Enhance Developer Handoff: Improve design documentation to streamline the transition from UX/UI to development.
Launch MVP & Gather Feedback: Track real-world usage and iterate based on user needs.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Cross-functional collaboration is crucial: Working with different teams reinforced the need for structured design handoffs and clear communication.
User research should include larger samples: While secondary research was helpful, direct user testing would have provided more accurate insights.
Tournament management is more complex than expected: Organizers currently use fragmented tools, and a centralized solution significantly improves efficiency.
Scalability must be considered early: The initial design was too feature-heavy. Focusing on an MVP first helped streamline the approach.
Cross-functional collaboration is crucial: Working with different teams reinforced the need for structured design handoffs and clear communication.
User research should include larger samples: While secondary research was helpful, direct user testing would have provided more accurate insights.
Tournament management is more complex than expected: Organizers currently use fragmented tools, and a centralized solution significantly improves efficiency.
Scalability must be considered early: The initial design was too feature-heavy. Focusing on an MVP first helped streamline the approach.
I had the fortune and privilege to work with Joute in projects that were both, demanding and highly valuable. Joute was always the person that brought sense to many parts of the design.
As a designer, he is excellent. As a team player, outstanding. He was always ready for changes and took most of the sudden requests with ease. He is definitely a designer you want to have working with you.
I had the fortune and privilege to work with Joute in projects that were both, demanding and highly valuable. Joute was always the person that brought sense to many parts of the design.
As a designer, he is excellent. As a team player, outstanding. He was always ready for changes and took most of the sudden requests with ease. He is definitely a designer you want to have working with you.
Edy
Founder@DigiAxix
Edy
Founder@DigiAxix
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