Wellness App due January 16, 2019
Setup
- Individual Project
- 3 class days (plus the weekend!)
Materials
- Index cards
- Pens
- Sketch
- Invision
- Google Docs
- Google Slides
Deliverables
- Click-through prototype
- Slide deck
- Presentation
- Report
The Brief
You will be proposing a new mobile app designed to support wellness. Based on user research, you’ll identify an opportunity for an app to improve people’s day-to-day lives. Get inspiration by choosing one area of wellness as listed HERE.
Suggestions
- Use findings from surveys and interviews to identify pain points in people’s lives to help determine a direction for your product. You should be trying to solve real people’s real problems. Don’t start with a concept!
- Interview people from outside of campus. Use your network to talk to people you don’t really know.
- Don’t forget to test and iterate! This will help you develop a prototype that has the kinks worked out of it.
- Test on paper before going digital.
- Document as you go. Take photos and collect artifacts from your work. Especially keep track of the changes as you iterate on your prototype.
Presentation (6 minutes)
Your presentation should answer the following questions:
- What did your research show you?
- What variations on your design did you explore?
- How were your design decisions connected to your research findings?
- How would a user operate your final design?
- How did you design change based on testing with users?
- What would you do differently next time?
Prototype
For this project, use Sketch and Invision to make a low-fidelity version of your prototype.
- Stick to black and white (use 1 shade of grey if needed)
- Just use 1 font (probably Avenir or Helvetica)
- Use representative text content (no lorem ipsum)
- Use boxes with Xs in place of images
Tip: If you haven’t set it up already, use the Craft plugin for Sketch to make it easier to sync your Sketch artboards to Invision.
Suggested Roadmap
Friday
- Choose a topic / type of wellness to focus on
- Plan the following days
- Prepare and send your survey
Week-end
- Prepare and conduct your interviews
- Finish your research
- Gather the results
Monday
- “Translate” your research results in features
- Paper prototype
- Test & iterate
Tuesday
- Sketch low-fidelity prototype
- Test & iterate
- InVision
- Rehearse your presentation
Wednesday
- Presentation in the morning
Report
For this project, you’ll be delivering a presentation as well as submitting a written report on Medium. The report is an opportunity for you to document your process, findings, takeaways, and iterations. It’s good practice to document as much as you can while you work, so we’re starting that practice early. This will make your life much easier later when you start compiling a portfolio of your work.
The report will also serve as the focal point for a 1-on-1 feedback session with one of the TAs.
We’ll have time dedicated after the presentations of this project to write up the report. For more information, check out the lesson on Design Reports.