Park Me!

Park Me! is an automated parking system that allow users to search and reserve a parking spot near their destination and compare parking availability, distance, hours and price.
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The Problem

Finding available car parking near a destination may bring different challenges to drivers even before hitting the road. Users are not guaranteed to find a spot convenient to park, and timing plays an important role considering different factors while driving such as traffic, accidents, weather and distance. Drivers nowadays are looking for easier ways to reserve their parking in advance so that their commute to their destination is smooth and convenient.

Users & Audience

We built this solution targeting mainly users who are looking to find their best option for parking their car in advance, with a flexible timing and price based on their desired end location, and are worry that they will not have a guaranteed parking spot once they are at a location. This application will also allow users to locate their vehicle in a parking lot much faster.

Starting Point

Our team began establishing the structure and flow of the system from start to end on how the user should interact. We focus on functionality, layout and navigation to make the design easier to use, produce and test.

Use Case Diagrams

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Architecture Modeling

Wireframes

For the front-end of our system, we sketched different layouts of our initial interface and how we were idealizing the visuals and placements of our features such as the Map view, payment . It was interesting to see the differences between the changes

Takeaways

While we encountered different challenges finding an optimal API to provide real-time data, we succeeded in emulating a full stack application using Mapbox, and Google service to provide an automatic parking website.