Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Principal Designer
As a Principal Designer on the Harry Potter team, I took lead on a number of tasks most of which revolved around pitching, designing, and implementing features. My process generally starts with a product goal and by understanding our players perspective, I create a feature that tackles our initial goals, is true to the Harry Potter band, and is fun for our players.
My responsibilities included:
Roadmap collaboration with Product Team
Partner communication and approvals
Feature work
Pitch decks
Mood boards / Storyboards
Technical spec writing and system design
Economic tuning
Templatized documentation
UX mocks including asset lists and copy
Unity prototype builds (C#)
User testing
Feature testing
Post mortem and review
Sample of the following features I pitched, designed, and led the implementation of
![Magical Milestones - a monthly season pass event](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/54910f02-4e13-4cb0-b411-4c75e2566fcc/HP_magicalmilestones.jpg)
![Romance & Dating - repeatable date encounters](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/3b431eec-b397-44b1-9bee-9a93c3b56e9d/HP_dating.jpg)
![Robust Avatar Creator - a completely customizable character](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/b201168f-f027-4214-abc9-1f196c156f50/HP_avatar.png)
![Assignments - thematic and story driven content](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/77914342-3d65-43a8-bdf3-71d24c3333f4/HP_assignments.jpg)
![Max Friendship - ongoing rewards to keep players engaged with the system](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/df3139e4-e179-4322-90e8-7fea97543202/HP_friendship.jpg)
![Charisma - daily login feature that provides a bonus to Friendship and Romance points](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/c65bfeee-357c-46b4-9c66-92e1139acbfc/HP_charisma02.png)
![Study With a Friend - Earn stats and friendship by using notebooks](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/09710e38-6d77-4144-b843-73c7dbd09861/HP_library.jpg)
![Study Sessions - Clarity on player progression that rewards the player for full star completion](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/1bae1b78-d2f2-403a-8a34-c0b416177adf/HP_studysessions.jpg)
![HP_puzzlingpotions.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/9eeb956b-b664-4de1-9a7b-e54806fbbbe6/HP_puzzlingpotions.jpg)
![Event Page - stacking of events that doesn't clutter the main UI](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608ef89cac5df725b42a0de3/f3e7d96d-cf60-453c-a6e6-be42877e2ec1/HP_events.jpg)