Case study · Betting UI / Desktop & Mobile
Instant Racing a race whenever you want one
An on-demand racing product where every race is real footage and starts the moment the player is ready. Shown here with Instant Greyhounds, the first title in a lobby that also holds a second track and horse racing.
Racing without the wait
Scheduled virtual racing makes players wait for the next off. Instant racing removes the timetable: pick, place and the traps open. The interface has to make that speed feel calm rather than frantic.
It also had to serve two very different bettors: the newcomer who backs a name to win, and the regular who builds forecasts, tricasts and swingers.
A race card you can read at arm's length
Each runner gets one row: trap colour, name, recent form, a star rating and two large prices for win and place. Tapping a price is the bet; there is no second screen. Exotics and odd/even markets sit behind a three-way switch so the default view stays simple.
During the race the product behaves like a broadcast with a personal ticker. The running order updates live, each bet is tagged winning, in reach or behind, and a caption calls out when the player's own runner hits the front.
Six steps from lobby to podium
The same journey on a desktop browser and a phone. Every screen below is captured from the working prototype.
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Step 01
Pick a game
The lobby presents each track as a poster with its sport, field size, distance and surface. A game in progress shows a resume button; balance and bet history carry across all of them.
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Step 02
Read the card, tap a price
Form, rating and odds are on one line per runner. Selected prices turn green and go straight to the betslip, which shows the total stake and maximum return as it builds.
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Step 03
Go deeper with exotics
Forecast, tricast, quinella, trio and swinger share one pattern: pick finishing positions per runner. A one-line explainer under the tabs says exactly what each bet needs.
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Step 04
Stake and place
Stake chips set every bet at once and each line can still be adjusted. On mobile the slip rises as a sheet over the card, with the place button in thumb reach.
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Step 05
Watch it live
Real race footage plays with distance to go, the leader and a live running order. The player's bets update in place, so there is never a doubt about what is winning.
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Step 06
Podium and payout
The result opens on the amount won, then the podium, then every bet with its return. Next race and rebet sit side by side to start again in one tap.
A bet in one tap
Prices are the buttons. The fastest route from race card to placed bet has no intermediate screens.
Room for the expert
Five exotic bet types and auto play are built on the same row pattern, so depth never changes how the card reads.
A product family, not a single game
The lobby, card, slip and race view are a shared system: a new track or a new sport is content, not a redesign.
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