Recast Sports

Recast is a subscription-free, live and on-demand streaming platform powered by microtransactions. It gives fans affordable access to the sports and entertainment they love and pays content creators and rights holders for every view.
Objectives
Set up and run frequent user research sessions to either validate user experience designs and positioning

User experience design of both the consumer and business facing sides of the platform to make Recast a compelling proposition for users and ensure partners could easily supply content
Scope of Activities
Line management & mentoring: 1x UI Designer, 1x Content Designer
Establishing design team & hiring
User research plans and execution
Wireframing
User flows
Persona generation
Workshop facilitation
Hi fidelity UI design
Motion design

User Research

I established a process for research and then have continued to provide this to Recast in a freelance capacity. My process for this is to recruit via Respondent and then use Lookback to conduct moderated tests. This is then supplemented with quantitative surveys where needed to be able to validate the objectives of the test. Findings are then presented to the product team with a shareable document providing key takeaways and recommendations.

As Recast’s business model can be unfamiliar to users we spend a lot of time honing the messaging.  Using this tight feedback loop we have gone from a place where about 20% of people understood the prospect to closer to 80%.

User testing a new payment model

Recast is disrupting the video content space by using micro-transactions instead of subscriptions. This presented a significant challenge for new users to be able to understand the service on offer. We tested various messaging consistently for this reason.
UI Design for video content
We made most prototypes in Framer so that we could play video directly in the design prototypes, affording a more realistic feel for the end result than would be possible with static content. Hover over the cards below to see an isolated example.

Outcomes

With all elements of the experience in place (landing page, consumer web app, and publisher platform) Recast was able to secure £5.9m in Series A funding.