Zynga Poker Private Table

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Overview

The original first ever game on Facebook, Zynga Poker introduced a viral gaming sensation 10 years ago that reached over 10 million monthly active users with its engaging, original and performant real-time online Poker game. As a Senior User Experience Designer, I contributed to the design strategy and execution in the recent 4 years for features including Leagues, Challenges, Playoffs, Tournaments, Events and many other UX improvements.



Social Center

Players can finally send private messages to Poker buddies. The addition of Social Center manages a list of Poker buddies that were added during gameplay. Social Hub also allows players to quickly find out if their buddies are online and quickly join them at their table. The Social Center marked the beginning of a series of social features in Zynga Poker.

Leagues


Poker Leagues was a feature that enables player to compete in weekly rankings in exchange for a prestige position. Players who come out on top will rise to the top of the leaderboard and be able to show off their shiny exclusive League badges to other competing players. My contributions with Leagues were the UX flow, UI design, iconography and Unity implementation. Leagues was one of the feature that contributed to the upward trend of Zynga Poker.

With the product owner in collaboration, we were able to define the Leagues feature with User Stories as our basis. I then take the requirements and sort it against the information structure we have pre-defined. At the end of the exercise we were able to create an architecture that fulfills our user stories.

Defining the Leagues feature with the Product OwnerConceptualizing user stories into digestible categoriesMapping requirements to our architecture

As usual, wireframes first before visual design:

Wireframe – Leagues MainWireframe – LeaderboardWireframe – Career

Below are the Leagues Center final comps:

Marketing PopupLeagues MainLeaderboardCareer SectionLeagues PanelLeagues Rank MovementLeagues Rank Movement Exploration






Challenges


Poker Challenges brings exciting mini-goals for Poker players to unlock great rewards. Challenges ranges from winning a targeted amount of chip stack at cash tables, winning Sit-N-Go or Shootout tournaments, provide excellent incentives to continue playing in the core loop. Poker Challenges enhances the Poker experience so much that it was the key driver in the upward trend of Zynga Poker.

Core Loop behaviors

While I wasn’t the lead designer on this feature, I contributed heavily in the prototyping, and user testing.


Playoffs

Poker Playoffs was an extension of Leagues. Players would compete in the weekly ranking promotions and offered a chance to play at the monthly Playoffs tournament.

Accessing Playoffs from the LobbyPlayoffs Waiting areaA Playoffs tab within the Leagues CenterPrizes for winning 1st place

Tournaments

With the partnership between WPT (World Poker Tournaments) and Zynga Poker, the team has dedicated an effort to consolidate all our tournament game modes into one single lobby destination – the Tournament Center. Few additional modes will be introduced when Tournament Center rolls live later in Q3 of 2018.







Stamp Card

The Stamp Card feature aimed to replicate the loyalty card commonly offered at pop-up restaurants or small specialty food shops. When a player makes enough purchases of chip packages, we would award them with a bonus chip package. The feature was a small endeavor that would make a huge impact on long-term revenue.





A quick animatic of the expected behavior

UX Improvements

Here are few other UX improvements I’ve made over the course of time I served on the Zynga Poker team.

Hand Clarity

Hand Clarity solved the long time issue with users misunderstanding the winner(s) of each hand and subsequently leaving poor reviews on the Appstore. The problem stemmed from mis-reading the make-up of the winner’s hand. By adding smaller representation of the cards at the win banner, users can quickly glance and know what the winning hand is. Upon finishing the feature, the team was recognized with the Player-Love award.

Progression

It is surprising since this game has been around for 10 years and yet we don’t have a system in place to incentivize players to stay with Zynga Poker. Hence comes forth the Progression Feature. Progression introduces a reward system that grants users a loot case once they’ve hit pre-defined milestones. For example, when users grind to lv. 20 through winning hands or participating in special event, a loot case will be awarded to them as a milestone celebration.

Using Flinto, I was able to bring our ideas to life.

Profile Progression TabXP Progression Tooltip
Buy Page

The buy page is considered the most sensitive, change-resistant, page of the entire game for obvious reasons. Therefore making major changes in the buy page requires layers and layers of approvals and testing cycles and design decisions were not made hastily.

Creating wireframes in Sketch to quickly illustrate multiple layout optionsAlways show your comps on device!





Not until recently, we were able to overhaul our outdated Buy Page. The new Buy Page features a refreshed UI featuring larger sized packages. Artwork was redone to accommodate the cards design.


Zynga poker sign in


Pay Table

This one was rather small improvement, the paytable of our slot machine always had our players scratching heads. This is an effort to combine two paytables into one screen to simplify and to explain accurately what the exact payouts are.

The existing paytableThe New Paytable
Graphics Creation

I frequently used Photoshop and its 3D capability to do really quick graphics work.

The 3D tool in Photoshop is quite elementary but is sufficientAdd the backgroundPaint more VFXZynga Poker Private TableAdding the final UI layer









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In the overall, how do you play with friends on Zynga Poker?

When you're playing at a table and pull up Zynga Live, you'll now see an “Invite” button next to your online buddies. Clicking on “Invite” will trigger a popup on your friend's screen, asking them to join your table: Your friend will receive the invite wherever they are in the game.

Therefore, can you sell Zynga poker chips? Will my account remain safe if I sell these chips? YES! Your account will remain safe at all time, the only thing we ask from you is to read properly the instructions that our staff will ask you to follow and your account will remain good at all time, before, during and after the purchase.

From everywhere, can you create your own table on Zynga Poker?

Bilge U. In Tavla Plus, you can create a private table to play with your friends and limit access to invited guests. Only invited players and friends can join the Private Table, the created table will not appear in the table list.

How do you send chips in Zynga Poker 2020?

Select a buddy you want to send chips to at the bottom of the game window. Click “Send.” Click the “Send Zynga Poker Gift Request...” button, and then click “Send” again to send the gift. You cannot specify the amount of chips to send.

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3 Related Questions Answered

How do I transfer chips from Zynga to Facebook?

It is not possible to transfer chips, XP, or any other information between the two account types. If you started playing as a Guest but later logged in to Facebook in the game, you may have progress and chips you want to continue to use in the Guest account.

How do you add friends on Zynga Poker 2020?

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You should click a player's avatar and click 'add friends' button at the pop-up window, in order to add him or her as a friend. If the user accepts your request, you become friends.

Is Zynga owned by Facebook?

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We knew that Zynga had to share virtual goods revenue and spend advertising on Facebook, but this goes beyond a tax. This is control. Facebook decides what games Zynga can launch, and when, and how successful these games will be. The Facebook Platform is not a level playing field at all.