Rescue Pets: Play and Save Real Animals

Hello, my name is Melody and I am currently enrolled in a UX design course. I am conducting a survey on the user experience of a mobile app I am designing for a portfolio project. I am conducting research on the creation of a mobile app that specializes in pet adoptions and animal shelters. I hope to find new and helpful features that will not only help the user when navigating the app, but also help shelter pets find their forever homes more seamlessly.

Some of my research goals include:

Understanding users' needs and frustrations while using a mobile app to search for pets to adopt.

Find creative solutions for users who want to support their local shelters without being required to adopt a pet.

Find intuitive and engaging ways for users to search for their ideal pet that may have been overlooked by other pet adoption apps: i.e. filter selections, location, home style preference, size, or physical preferences, taking a short quiz to place recommended pets first.

Understand what features connect to a users’ emotions or behaviors when looking to adopt a pet, so more adoptions are successful: i.e. show how long a pet has been at the shelter, any special needs, highlight the positive qualities of the pet before clicking the profile, images or videos of the pet.

The demographic for the survey is as follows:

Participants between 18-65.

Participants that have used a pet adoption app in the past.