Young Designers '13

Diploma Project

Re-imagine Search Experience for Bing Sports on Windows

Keywords

User interface design
Sports
Information visualisation
User experience design

Student

Sagar Nagaraja

sagarnshastry@gmail.com
http://sagarshastry.com

Guide

Mamata N Rao

mamatarao@nid.edu

Sponsor

Microsoft India Dev.Centre, Hyderabad

Synopsis

Windows 8.1 will feature smart search, which can integrate search results from cloud, devices and file search to provide relevant results. The search feature extends to a Bing apps suite, Bing Sports, Finance and others. The objective of the project was to make exploring and searching for tail queries simple, intuitive and engaging in the Bing Sports app for the target group of sports junkies and casual sports fans.

Design intervention opportunities were identified and ideas were generated. These were further evaluated based on business priorities and search experience improvements. Interactive search results for tail queries were finalised as the area of focus. The final visual designs after explorations with appropriate colours and type were later translated into user interface prototypes.