- Design and Development
- Mobile Application
- Nov 10, 2020
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Mala3b launched as the biggest sports venue app in Qatar, covering more than 10 venues and over 20 grounds. What made the brief unusual is that Mala3b runs every one of those venues itself. That changed the design problem: this wasn't an aggregator pulling availability from third parties and hoping it was current — it was a booking app where the calendar could be the actual truth of what's free right now.
The product was built around three steps.
Book. Venue pages show what's available near you, with filters by sport, because a padel player and a five-a-side team are looking for very different things. The booking flow narrows down in four taps: pitch, spot, date, time. No calling a venue that doesn't pick up.
Shop. Order refreshments to be waiting at the venue before you arrive. It sounds small; it removes the supermarket stop that delays every casual game. Customers can save a card for faster checkout or pay cash on site.
Play. The feature that does the most work. Share a booking straight to a WhatsApp group, and when friends tap to confirm, the game appears in their own bookings with reminders 24 hours and one hour before kick-off. Organising a game is the real friction in amateur sport, not paying for the pitch — so we built the invite flow to live where people already organise: their group chat.
Underneath: a booking and calendar system, secure payment handling with saved card details, and location-aware venue discovery.
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