Gaming Tournaments

Creating an end to end solution for running, participating, and spectating Gaming Tournaments

Facebook Gaming Tournaments

IMPACT: Designed a mobile-first experience for running and organizing a tournament. After our alpha launch, our testers all gave positive reviews: “Better than any of the mobile interfaces so far” - Tournament Organizer

Introduction

Today there is not a one-stop place for discovering, running, participating and spectating tournaments - especially on mobile. This is a unique opportunity for the Facebook app to fill these needs.

Goal: Creating a mobile end to end solution for running, participating, and spectating Gaming Tournaments

My Role

  • Led design effort, as second member of the team
  • Move fast: designed and shipped alpha in 3 months

Personas

  • Organizer: Runs and moderates the tournament.
  • Participant: Anyone can participate - prompted next steps within the tournament process.
  • Spectator: Watches and follows the tournament.

Tournament Creation

Tournament Discovery

Tournament During

Results

Alpha Launch: Our vision was to create an end to end solution for running, participating, spectating tournaments

  • Run 10 tournaments at 10 colleges
  • Feedback was extremely positive: “Better than any of the mobile interfaces so far” - Tournament Organizer

“If you make everything important, you make nothing important.”

Yuna Kim
Product Designer