A work project adopting desktop application's features to iOS and Android environments. It is a communication software built for teams and companies who value safety of their chats' and audio or video calls' data.
There are well studied benefits of setting goals in life. People, however, don’t usually feel they are making progress towards their goals or that their daily tasks have any effect on them. Often many of us have troubles staying motivated or focusing on the important.
A customizable task manager that could make noticing goal's progress easier. The ambition was to create a strong basis for different productivity needs and a possible competitor in the market.
High level goals were to:
1. Make it fun and easy to use daily for everyone.
2. Give users more control over the app’s behaviour.
Only crucial components of the desktop app were ought to be transferred to mobile platforms. Some good-to-have features, if allowed by mobile experience, could also be added. The mobile design had to be clear for new users, while still being familiar to existing desktop users.
Straightforward messaging with advanced features for better team communication
Clean and easy to use interface
Encrypted audio/video personal and group chats with few hundred simultaneous users
Circumstances could've been better, but enough for practice. I experienced the importance of key UX research method – user interviews. Extensive secondary research helped me see some productivity issues or problems in productivity apps, but primary research is irreplaceable when it comes to understanding the user. Without it I might have been solving problems people didn’t actually have.
Main UI screens' have been finished, but only a few were built before the company ran out of money and halted most of the development. I've learned few things during -- and experienced the importance of clear product's strategy at first hand.
