ShoBizzy is an all-in-one production staffing and networking solution for the entertainment industry and all its players - the LinkedIn of entertainment for production companies, small businesses, freelancers, and more.

ShoBizzy is an all-in-one production staffing and networking solution for the entertainment industry and all its players - the LinkedIn of entertainment for production companies, small businesses, freelancers, and more.

Overview

Services

Agile Methodology

Design Ops

Project Management

Design Systems

Interactive Prototyping

Product Design

User Testing

UX Design

ShoBizzy was looking to create “the LinkedIn of the entertainment industry” - a social and business product that would allow studios, networks, and production companies to seamlessly staff productions with top-tier talent, while also creating a centralized platform for industry networking that would be tailored to Entertainment needs. While at Rapptr, in my capacity as the Director of Design, I was brought onto ShoBizzy to complete initial requirements gathering, feature prioritization, product roadmapping, and to work on the product UX (alongside another designer) before handing the project off to another designer for UI and engineering.

ShoBizzy, initially intended to be a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), quickly outpaced this categorization and would become the largest product in Rapptr's history due to the number of platforms, user types, and the scope of the V1 feature set.

Users of ShoBizzy would include 1) Studios, Networks, and Production Companies (SNPCs) looking to manage company profiles and to create and manage ongoing entertainment productions (e.g. a current season of a television show, a movie, etc.) 2) Supporting Businesses and Vendors (SBs) working on these productions (e.g. catering companies, equipment rental companies, studio rentals, etc.) and 3) freelance talent that would work on these productions as sole individuals (e.g. actors, makeup artists, cinematographers, etc.). Each user group presented unique needs within the context of ShoBizzy that prompted a highly tailored approach to feature implementation across platforms, which included iOS and responsive web across desktop and mobile. Below is a more expansive breakout of platforms, user types, and feature set.

Overview

Services

Agile Methodology

Design Ops

Project Management

Design Systems

Interactive Prototyping

Product Design

User Testing

UX Design

ShoBizzy was looking to create “the LinkedIn of the entertainment industry” - a social and business product that would allow studios, networks, and production companies to seamlessly staff productions with top-tier talent, while also creating a centralized platform for industry networking that would be tailored to Entertainment needs. While at Rapptr, in my capacity as the Director of Design, I was brought onto ShoBizzy to complete initial requirements gathering, feature prioritization, product roadmapping, and to work on the product UX (alongside another designer) before handing the project off to another designer for UI and engineering.

ShoBizzy, initially intended to be a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), quickly outpaced this categorization and would become the largest product in Rapptr's history due to the number of platforms, user types, and the scope of the V1 feature set.

Users of ShoBizzy would include 1) Studios, Networks, and Production Companies (SNPCs) looking to manage company profiles and to create and manage ongoing entertainment productions (e.g. a current season of a television show, a movie, etc.) 2) Supporting Businesses and Vendors (SBs) working on these productions (e.g. catering companies, equipment rental companies, studio rentals, etc.) and 3) freelance talent that would work on these productions as sole individuals (e.g. actors, makeup artists, cinematographers, etc.). Each user group presented unique needs within the context of ShoBizzy that prompted a highly tailored approach to feature implementation across platforms, which included iOS and responsive web across desktop and mobile. Below is a more expansive breakout of platforms, user types, and feature set.

Overview

Services

Agile Methodology

Design Ops

Project Management

Design Systems

Interactive Prototyping

Product Design

User Testing

UX Design

ShoBizzy was looking to create “the LinkedIn of the entertainment industry” - a social and business product that would allow studios, networks, and production companies to seamlessly staff productions with top-tier talent, while also creating a centralized platform for industry networking that would be tailored to Entertainment needs. While at Rapptr, in my capacity as the Director of Design, I was brought onto ShoBizzy to complete initial requirements gathering, feature prioritization, product roadmapping, and to work on the product UX (alongside another designer) before handing the project off to another designer for UI and engineering.

ShoBizzy, initially intended to be a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), quickly outpaced this categorization and would become the largest product in Rapptr's history due to the number of platforms, user types, and the scope of the V1 feature set.

Users of ShoBizzy would include 1) Studios, Networks, and Production Companies (SNPCs) looking to manage company profiles and to create and manage ongoing entertainment productions (e.g. a current season of a television show, a movie, etc.) 2) Supporting Businesses and Vendors (SBs) working on these productions (e.g. catering companies, equipment rental companies, studio rentals, etc.) and 3) freelance talent that would work on these productions as sole individuals (e.g. actors, makeup artists, cinematographers, etc.). Each user group presented unique needs within the context of ShoBizzy that prompted a highly tailored approach to feature implementation across platforms, which included iOS and responsive web across desktop and mobile. Below is a more expansive breakout of platforms, user types, and feature set.

Overview

Services

Agile Methodology

Design Ops

Project Management

Design Systems

Interactive Prototyping

Product Design

User Testing

UX Design

ShoBizzy was looking to create “the LinkedIn of the entertainment industry” - a social and business product that would allow studios, networks, and production companies to seamlessly staff productions with top-tier talent, while also creating a centralized platform for industry networking that would be tailored to Entertainment needs. While at Rapptr, in my capacity as the Director of Design, I was brought onto ShoBizzy to complete initial requirements gathering, feature prioritization, product roadmapping, and to work on the product UX (alongside another designer) before handing the project off to another designer for UI and engineering.

ShoBizzy, initially intended to be a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), quickly outpaced this categorization and would become the largest product in Rapptr's history due to the number of platforms, user types, and the scope of the V1 feature set.

Users of ShoBizzy would include 1) Studios, Networks, and Production Companies (SNPCs) looking to manage company profiles and to create and manage ongoing entertainment productions (e.g. a current season of a television show, a movie, etc.) 2) Supporting Businesses and Vendors (SBs) working on these productions (e.g. catering companies, equipment rental companies, studio rentals, etc.) and 3) freelance talent that would work on these productions as sole individuals (e.g. actors, makeup artists, cinematographers, etc.). Each user group presented unique needs within the context of ShoBizzy that prompted a highly tailored approach to feature implementation across platforms, which included iOS and responsive web across desktop and mobile. Below is a more expansive breakout of platforms, user types, and feature set.

Product details

Platforms

iOS (future Android release)

Web - Desktop, Mobile

User Types

Studios, Networks, Product Companies (SNPCs)

Supporting Businesses & Vendors (SBs)

Freelancers (Talent)

Feature set

Security

Single Sign On

Two Factor Authentication

Production Management

Create & Edit a Production

Production Dashboard

Add & Manage Admin Users

Manage Admin Permission Tiers

Staff a Production

Org Chart Creation, Customization, & Export

AI-Powered Staffing Suggestions

File Upload & Management

Group Messaging within Productions

Collapsible, Anchored Sidebar

User Calendar

Collapsible Messaging Windows

Social

Social Feed (including local discovery, Featured tab)

Social Posting & Commenting

Photo & Video Upload

Messaging

Account Creation

New User Onboarding (distinct flows for SNPC, SB, or Talent)

User Dashboard (distinct for SNPC, SB, or Talent; separate from Production Dashboard)

Company & User Profile

Create a Profile (distinct for SNPC, SB, or Talent)

Upload & Edit Media

IMDB Integration

User Calendar & Availability Management

Networking

Add Connections

Follow Profiles

Write a Review

Write or Request a Referral

Message Requests (Approve/Deny)

Search & Filtering

Location-Based Search & Discovery

Search Filtering

Account Management

Premium Subscription Tier

Payment Processing (separate ApplePay & web payment flows)

Push Notifications

UI completed by separate designer

Design process

Design process

Design process

Design process

We commenced initial legwork on ShoBizzy through a full-day client product & design workshop, from which we distilled user personas, a feature wishlist, and began the process of scoping and prioritizing those features using a MoSCoW method. From there, we spent additional sessions with the ShoBizzy team further honing the feature set through Effort/Impact Matrices. Each feature was individually weighed and prioritized on a matrix consisting along two axes: 1) level of impact on users (how critical is this feature to the product’s value proposition for each user type?) and 2) engineering and design lift (based on consults with engineering on frameworks, integrations, and dev time). Features that were desirable, but not feasible due to constraining factors such as budget and/or launch target were tabled for a later V2 release or beyond. Selected features were additionally filtered based on which platforms they would be accessible on at launch (i.e. SNPC users could create org charts on desktop web, but not mobile web), with the intent that all features would eventually be extended across all platforms where possible. Based on the feature set, I worked with ShoBizzy to map each user flow by user type and worked in sprints to then complete the UX phase, beginning with high fidelity wireframes, interactive prototyping, and user testing completed on both the agency and client sides. During the UX process, an additional designer was eventually brought on to aid with completion of the wireframes and to assist with handoff to a separate designer working on UI and engineering handoff.

User personas (Studios, Networks, Production Companies)
User persona (Supporting Businesses & Vendors)
User persona (Freelancer)
Feature prioritization
Feature environment mapping

Product architecture & entity relationship mapping

Product architecture & entity relationship mapping

Product architecture & entity relationship mapping

Product architecture & entity relationship mapping

In order to fully iterate and finalize a user flow across each platform of the app, a number of relationships first needed to be defined as they impacted areas of the app related to networking, production management, and the act of assigning admin roles. Consulting with engineering, I assembled Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and minor user flow maps to ensure an accurate hierarchy of user and admin permissions. Once these details were sorted out, we were then able to assemble full user flow diagrams for each user type and for each subcategory of admin types.

Example of user flow on mobile app

Example of minor user flows representing different use cases of admin invitations

UX design

UX design

UX design

UX design

Please note that designs below are intended as examples and are not exhaustive. I created all UX components shown below, apart from native iOS components sourced from open source community files

Desktop web design

Desktop web design
Platform onboarding

Platform onboarding

Production dashboard

Production dashboard

Create production

Create production

Org chart editor

Org chart editor

Production details

Production details

User profile

User profile

Social feed

Social feed

Mobile app design

Mobile app design
Log in via SSO

Log in via SSO

Onboarding

Onboarding

User profile

User profile

Social feed

Social feed

Messages

Messages

Compose, accept messages

Compose, accept messages

Search

Search

Calendar

Calendar

Settings

Settings

Example of fidelity of full app prototype interactivity (mobile UX)

UI design

UI design

UI design

UI design

As mentioned, UI on ShoBizzy was handled by a separate designer. Here are a few side-by-side examples of how UX designs translated to the UI phase before entering engineering. More examples of the final UI can be found on the ShoBizzy website or in the App Store, both linked in the Overview section of this page.

User profile

User profile

Social feed (mobile app)

Social feed (mobile app)

Social feed (desktop web)

Social feed (desktop web)

Org chart

Org chart

Messages

Messages

Search

Search

UI completed by separate designer