Overview

In the summer of 2017, after Playphone had launched msports, our team was manually sourcing games for the msports platform. With scale in mind, we sought to build out a game developer portal for developers to seamlessly submit and manage their msports games on their own.

Working with product and engineering, I headed the design of the msports developer portal and saw it through to deployment in September 2017.

Outcome

I designed a developer portal that kept the focus on developers, and was built for scale. By creating a 5-step workflow for developers to submit their games, we reduced friction and ambiguity in the game submission and management workflows.

Designing the portal

Game submission
I distilled the game submission process down to 5 steps, addressing technical, legal, and visual requirements. User progress is tracked by a universal progress bar, and game submission information is autosaved should they exit the developer portal. 

Reports
Game developers need to track a variety of data for their games on the msports platform. In the msports developer portal, I included a reports section which provides detailed information on gamer activity, engagement, transaction (if the user bought any in-app products, for example), and payout reports. Each report can be filtered and exported. 

Multiple users, roles & permissions
With many game developer companies having multiple users touching various aspects of their games on the msports developer portal, we added a roles & permissions functionality. Game dev company admins can invite, assign, and manage users on their account, as well as add and manage subsidiary companies.

Visual design language