P97 Networks provides a mobile payments and marketing platform for convenience retail, energy and auto equipment manufacturers.
Sole Product Designer
Interaction Design
Visual Design
Research
Ben Hirvela
Project Manager
Figma
Android
High-Fidelity Mockups
High-Fidelity Prototypes
User & Task Flows
6 Months
The P97 Petrozone app was already in service to a large portion of the fuel industry. However, with the electric vehicle industry on the rise, it was time to integrate EV charging into our platform.
During this initiative, I operated as the sole product designer, conceptualizing, researching and producing the final prototypes.
The Petrozone app currently has no support for EV transactions.
EV charging services are new and lacking consistent standardization.
Integrate EV charging into the Petrozone app, including a full EV charging prototype and system wide updates to support.
In earlier iterations, the EV charging flow included two steps to select the charger followed by the plug type. In my final design these steps were combined into one reducing the number of taps in the flow.
During a charging session, a user couldn’t be expected to leave their phone on the charging screen, so I designed functionality to minimize the charging screen while still tracking progress.
At the end of the production cycle I was able to produce a prototype displaying the functionality of our new EV integration.
This project allowed me to push my skills across multiple areas of the design process, from research and requirements gathering to prototyping and visual design.
In addition I learned a lot about an industry that I had no prior knowledge in, and appreciated the challenge that came with it. There were many questions around EV practices that I could not answer on my own, but thankfully I was able to reach out to those with more industry expertise to fill in the blanks.
