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Tarot Together

Tarot apps hand you the card meanings and leave you alone with them. Tarot Together pairs you with a mentor and a group to practise with.

Concept study. Designed during DesignLab’s UX Academy, not a shipped product.

Role: Sole product designer
With: A DesignLab mentor and 8 group critiques
Project: DesignLab independent project
Tools: Figma

01The short version

I designed a learning app around mentor sessions and practice with other learners, and tested it with 7 people.

The research and every screen were mine, with feedback from a DesignLab mentor and 8 group critiques along the way.

The Tarot Together home screen with daily tasks and an upcoming group session — Home, a mentor session and a lessonFigma

An upcoming mentor session, with options to chat, book a session, open lessons or respond to feedback — Home, a mentor session and a lessonFigma

02Learners wanted company

Beginners and long-time readers kept asking for 2 things: a mentor and people to practise with.

I ran surveys and interviews with tarot learners, some brand new and some reading for years. Consistency came up too: people wanted help keeping a regular practice going.

03A gap on the shelf

The tarot apps I reviewed teach the cards well and Discord has the people, but none of them did both.

I looked at Galaxy Tarot, Labyrinthos, Golden Thread Tarot and Discord.

So Tarot Together puts lessons on the cards next to mentor sessions, and after a group session you can add the other learners to your circle.

Booking a mentor, then adding people after a group sessionPrototype

04Testing the 7th visit

I set the test on a returning learner’s 7th visit because that’s where the community part shows up.

The script told each tester they’d already met their mentor twice and joined a few group video sessions. Today they had to book a new session with their mentor, then catch up on a lesson they’d missed live the day before.

05What 7 testers changed

The time picker became a list of slots with a Confirm button.

Testers struggled to pick and confirm a time in the original booking modal, so the scroll wheel became a list of time slots, with instructions and a Confirm button.

They also felt stuck on the last screen of a lesson, so the back arrow and gem count at the top became a clear X that takes you home.

Before: the original New Session Request modal with open time fields — Booking, before testing

After: the updated New Session Request modal with simpler fields and a button to add time slots — Booking, after testing

Before: the end of a session with a back arrow and a gem count at the top — Before: a back arrow and a gem count

After: the same screen with a clear X to go home — After: an X that takes you home

“I would use this app every day!”

Heather N., one of the 7 testers

Credits

Tarot Together

Research and design: Alex Jammali
Mentor: DesignLab
Critiques: 8 DesignLab group critiques
Testing: 7 testers

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