YouTube

Vid-Con Drive Thru

34,000 videos and 184MM views: Creating the ordering experience for an interactive experience worth sharing

Agency

MAS Event + Design

Role

Lead Product Designer

Overview

At VidCon 2022, YouTube hosted a drive-thru for 17,000 visitors to order snacks from their favorite creators.

The activation was to both introduce Shorts and to encourage visitors to share their own.

Goal

Our objective was to design an engaging and intuitive ordering experience for 3-foot ordering screens (mounted on 2-foot stands) that encouraged guests to capture and share the moment on social media.

The ordering process itself was part of a larger activation and needed to incorporate related Shorts content seamlessly. In addition, we had to map out a smooth and efficient drive-thru experience that could accommodate 17,000 visitors over a 3-day period.

While guests ordered in groups or with their party, we wanted to ensure each user enjoyed a personalized ordering experience that was easily shareable across social platforms.

Scope of Work

I started with mapping the user flow of the ordering platform to identify the best way to include videos, ordering, and individual flows.

While the YouTube team had started iterations on the Drive-Thru logo, I put together visual concepts, using a few sample screens.

These sample screens led to a final direction that was bright, playful, and full of movement.

When users started the experience, they watched three shorts of the three featured Creator snacks.

From there, I began to create additional states, like creating a wheelchair accessible version with lower buttons and controls.

Back of House Design

After designing the ordering screens, I worked with the MAS team to create the back of house design. I began with a user flow to label and group the information that would be needed by BoH staff, such as the car number, the time since the order was placed, and the status. Outside of these elements, the BoH design also needed to have the ability to modify meals, change the creators that were shown on screen, and edit stock and availability.

Functionality

Here is a piece of the high-level architecture to understand the functionality.

The Complete Experience

It was wonderful working with the team at MAS, who also handled the event design itself, the development, and the set-up of the experience. 



The end result was a well-received and exciting portion of VidCon 2022.

Driving Massive Reach:
148M Views

The experience inspired 34,000 unique Shorts creations and generated 148 million views, 13 million likes and 1.5 million hours of watch time on the YouTube platform.

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