By AJ Picard — founder of Sauce Designs & Clava App

I’m currently living in Baltimore and if you live in Baltimore you know about all of the scooters people are flying around on throughout the day 🛴 .

I recently came across a new brand of scooters called Bolt, what drew me to Bolts brand was color scheme on their scooters.

Yellow & gold.

I know it’s not on everyone’s favorite color scheme list but for some reason, if done right I’m drawn to it. I think Bolt displays their brand colors perfectly.

For those who don’t know in order to unlock a scooter, you have to download the app, find a scooter near you on the map, click the ride button and scan the QR code… you’ll hear a message or sound depending on the scooter indicating you unlocked it (there are some little steps I didn’t cover like setting up payment options, etc).

Back to the point, when I found Bolts scooter I had to download their app to unlock their scooter. When I was going through the app I didn’t get the same emotional connection I got when I was looking at their scooter.

Some of the app's pages didn’t correctly display Bolts branding. I don’t know why but whenever I discover/download a new app or website I’m always looking for ways it can improve.

Instead of just saying “Oh this ‘brand’ could have done this better inside of their app”, discovering Bolts app encouraged me to try and start redesigning apps/websites.

With that being said let's dive into Bolts app and look at areas I think they could improve on.