Adventures in Time Tracking Prototypes, Round 2

Old home screen (L) vs. new home screen (R)

 After a brief pause in designing, wherein we received user feedback on the heuristics of our design, we sat down to evaluate the changes and refinements necessary to our time tracking prototypes. There is a lot to be said for bashing heads with your team members to create efficient, minimal prototypes, and the arduous process of slowly whittling away at unnecessary details to bring out the most important features of our application. 

We spent much of the day with this whiteboard after touching on necessary fixes to the prototype. Mapping out the flow of each screen was extremely helpful to help us realize how each section of the app would interact with others. We figured out what was needed to contribute to the flow, and more importantly, what elements were redundant and/or unnecessary to the application.

Stay tuned for the latest prototype images!

Adventures in Time Tracking Prototypes, Round 1

These prototypes are far from perfect but they were a great learning experience. So many things became necessary to consider once sketching started. Even more ideas of what needed to be communicated arose when testing it out on classmates.

Contextual Inquiries, Affinity Diagramming, Persona Generation, Oh My!

User Interface Design, Info 213, has a fair number of my fellow first years in attendance. Professor Tapan Parikh really wasted no time getting us to pitch ideas and form groups of 3-5 people. My group includes Naila al Khalawi, Sean Chen, Donghjuk Jung, and Chan Kim. Through contextual inquiries, diagramming our findings, and generating insights we came to ask the question:

How might we help people create efficient scheduling habits that integrates their work and life to achieve greater balance between the two?

Our proposal: To create an application which allows users to track their time so as to get a better view of how it is actually spent versus how they think it is spent. We think that having an overview of actual time spent would better help people make the necessary adjustments to balance out and schedule their activities.