Football means world for a lot of countries. In those countries football fans keep track and talk about everything of their favorite teams 24 / 7. In addition, they arrange football matches between them in pitch which is a big ritual that repeats weekly or monthly. Nike already delivered the best app to runners and trainers so how can we give real Nike experience to the football lovers while enriching the content with their favorite teams’ assets?

With the involvement of leadership, I learned that back in 2008, Nike created a football application for football fans only to present brand news; nothing more. Eventually, this lead to application to be shelved for future.

As DGTM team, we have conducted user research with a various numbers of football lovers includes consumers and football fans to find the real needs:

Because of the incapability of the very old tool, we decided to create a mobile application where all users can create pitch game tournaments with each other while living in a unique world designed only for football fans.

From the research that we’ve conducted, our first aim to focus on football fans around the world who have passion on football as a fan or as an athlete. This leads to creating new Nike+ members, therefore our second aim was Nike+ members, who have already access on other Nike applications like NRC and NTC.

To create a tool that satisfies all users need, we’ve performed various numbers of interviews and surveys with Nike+ members, football fans and employees around the world. We also created cross functional team from different departments like brand and sales to gather effective feedbacks and comments.

Everyday football feeling of stylish Sportswear NIKEFC visuals and the color look of blue and yellow Cristiano Ronaldo Mercurial Soccer Shoes were the key inspirations for the colors of the application. It was very important for this app to carry future company strategy of CR7 shoes; as a result of this Jersey Blue was chosen the represent the future experience. Jersey Yellow was chosen as a secondary sportive color in case of any addition to be added to the Nike Football X for further releases.

It was very important to create brand way, user friendly and simple menu bar for smooth navigation through mobile app. To achieve this challenge, with the help of the process flow diagrams that I created before, I did comprehensive research on brand’s and competitor’s mobile applications.