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The project challenge and goal

In awake of the need to have a more sustainable future, technology has a key role to play in seeing that that future gets achieved.

Vehicles in idle lines at gas stations emit pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and particulate matter (PM).

From research conducted by different entities, on average, vehicles waste 7 minutes per stop at gas stations around Africa and drivers approximately stop 9.2 times per month a number that goes further up in different parts of the continent.

With almost the whole continent still running on fossil fuels, devising means to control this are a priority.

The goal

Gasfilup App provides a new perspective to this by allowing users to order fuel from the comfort of their home, offices and even when struck in traffic or travelling.

This helps to save the amount of time wasted per stop thus allowing users do more important things with their time.

Through the established technology, the system gives the user updates about their order status, fuel quality and helpful information on how to improve the lifetime of their cars.

The system as well uses different modes of payment to allow users of all types to effectively and efficiently clear their bills.

As noticed in the above images, the app uses both dark and light mode so as to meet accessibility standards.

Questions and product development

While setting project goals with the different stakeholders, the main question was "How can we make ordering fuel frictionless?"

From the question, we developed project goals, carried out user research, tested and continued to iterate on the project.

Being a fully remote team, this was somewhat challenging to align the whole team and brainstorm different ideas but with an agile setup, we were able to make it work.

I carried out numerous interviews with car owners in different parts of the city (Kampala) as its where we were launching first. The interviews gave us more insight into our user base thus leading to the creation of new features such as the cashless payments which from the research we realized most foreigners prefer to use as compared to locals who prefer using cash.

Challenges

As per now, the product is still under government scrutiny but if it comes to life, I believe the way we use time and fuel will greatly evolve and it will have a great impact on the environment.

What I learnt

During the project lifetime, I was the only product designer and also in charger of product management. This gave me a chance to interact with different teams from business to development.

I was also able to learn to use new tools such as Protopie which add interactivity to the designs to ease hand offs to the dev team.

Product photography