This master thesis focuses on the development of a redesign of a real estate application in order to improve usability and user experience.
Thesis covers theoretical and experimental part. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of mobile applications, user experience, user interface, usability, and information architecture. The experimental part includes the analysis of user preferences by conducting structured interviews, the design and creation of a wireframe model, the design of a prototype, the evaluation of the usability and user experience of the existing application and the newly designed prototype.
The results of the interviews showed that users desire more functionality in real estate applications. The most important features users mentioned are: filtering by price, location, number of rooms, good photos of the real-estate properties, clear and easy display of results, saving individual properties in favourites and notifications. This information later helped us to plan the design of the newly designed app prototype.
Most users pointed out that they prefer to use a mobile app to search for real-estate listings, therefore it is important that the app is well designed and provides a good user experience.
The usability and user experience evaluation we carried out after the successful prototyping tells us that the redesigned app provides a better usability and user experience than the current app.
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