OVERVIEW
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed homes into the primary workspace for many. This shift has made it harder to maintain a healthy work-life balance, and disorganized living spaces can become a major source of distraction. This makes it difficult to concentrate on daily tasks and achieve personal, professional, or educational goals.
This project aims to empower individuals to regain control of their home environment and enhance their focus. By providing clear guidelines on decluttering, organizing workspaces, and establishing sustainable organization habits, we'll help people minimize distractions. This will foster a sense of calm and control, allowing them to thrive while working from home and successfully reach their targets.
TIME FRAME
Research 3wks
Design 3wks
ROLE
Research
System Design
Interaction Design
Visual Design
Motion Design
TOOLS
Figma
Adobe XD
Illustrator
Photoshop
After Effect
MENTOR
Nikki Kipple
Context
This project understands that everyone's home and work styles are unique. It aims to provide adaptable organization solutions that can be tailored to individual needs and preferences. The focus will be on creating personalized systems that promote long-term success in maintaining an organized and distraction-free home environment.
Research Summary
“Organized people take it upon themselves to create systems that work for them in their lives that take away any unnecessary stress/effort/time/money etc… they may otherwise be expending unnecessarily.”
Interview Responses
Interview Summary
organized living spaces. However, busy schedules often create conflicts that hinder cleaning and organization efforts. Key insights from interviews include:
Sally, 27
Operations Manager
"I crave a minimalist space, but struggle with deciding what to keep and how to efficiently store things I don't use often."
Jay, 32
Software Engineer
"Things end up everywhere, I really need furniture to get myself organized."
Rachel, 33
Sales Manager
"My clothes rarely get folded, they just take up way too much space. I need better folding and organization techniques."
Challenge
How might we make organizing enjoyable and integrate it seamlessly into users' routines.
Solutions
Personalized Organization Plans
Leverage AI-driven gamification for an engaging organizing experience, where users earn points and rewards for completing task and maintaining an organized space.
Gamification
Use AI algorithms to provide personalized organization plans tailored to their specific needs and preferences.
Community Engagement
Utilize AI to facilitate community engagement among users. Users can share their organizing tips, success stories and challenges.
Target Audience
Primary:
Remote Workers: Individuals who have transitioned to working from home full-time or on a hybrid schedule due to the pandemic. They likely struggle with blurring boundaries between work and personal life.
Busy Professionals: People with demanding careers who find it difficult to balance work commitments with maintaining an organized home.
Students: Students of all ages (high school, college, post-graduate) who are learning and studying from home, needing to create focused environments.
Secondary:
Families: Households where multiple people work/study from home, creating additional organizational challenges.
People with Small Living Spaces: Those living in apartments or smaller homes where maximizing space and storage is crucial.
User Persona
Heuristic Evaluation
Sweepy
The app that helps you to keep your house clean and organized. Create your cleaning plan to share your tasks with your family and turn your cleaning routine into a game.
#2: Match between system and the real world
The app used a commonly accepted metaphor that creates natural maps by creating green as "clean" and red "needs cleaning".
OurHome
The house is tidy. The pets are fed. The kids are studying quietly. All this without even being asked! Whether it’s housework or homework, OurHome’s gamified task system will keep your family humming.
#6: Recognition rather than recall
The app provides top and bottom navigation and labels, so the user does not have to guess what the icon is.
Room Planner
Decorate your house or apartment and furnish it with the best floor plan creator and home styler app. Get inspiration from predesigned layouts for your bedroom, bathroom, living room, etc.
#4: Consistency and standards
When users click on the search icon, the user will most likely expect to see the search bar, but instead there are drop-down options to filter.
Home Page
Users can rapidly generate tasks and mark them as completed using mobile app.
Home screen shows your upcoming tasks and suggestions.
Thumbnail images give you a glimpse of the stories from your friends.
Add New Tasks
Organize your tasks according to the rooms and track their progress.
Complete Tasks
Users can edit the photos of organized rooms and share them with others.
Share Photos
Share photos to help anyone change the space quickly and easily.
Task 1
The user wants to enter rooms and add tasks that need to be done in each room.
Task Flows
Task 2
The user wants to enter rooms and add tasks that need to be done in each room.
Task 3
The user wants to upload photos of organized rooms.
Lo-FI Wireframe
Usability Testing 1
Participant #1 | Jay, 25 | Duration: 30min
Confirmation Page: "I'm confused why there is a message about completed tasks. There should be a warning of adding tasks, and it would be helpful if there is an option to add more tasks.”
For the final page for Task 1, change the screen to inform users of the tasks they have added. This encourages users to add more tasks to the room they have chosen.
Change the icon to check the mark to make the confirmation more intuitive.
Usability Testing 2
Participant #2 | Jenny, 27 | Duration: 40min
Landing Page: “The bottom nav is clear, but the line that comes across looks a little unusual.”
For the landing page, added preview of tasks and suggestions. (It will be leave it blank if there are no task for the day) Added today's story section to view photos from other organized places. Camera icon is to upload pictures.
Today's story is about a preview of the story of other people.
Usability Testing 3
Participant #3 | Terri, 29 | Duration: 30min
My Page: “I don't think the photo editing page is necessary, there's a way to skip it?”
My page: profile info added including the connections and the current rewards points.
My story section is added where the user can view preview with an image and hashtags.
For the uploads, the user can categorize according to the rooms for users to organize the uploads easily.
Usability Testing 4
Participant #4 | Hailey, 30 | Duration: 30min
Task Page: “Can I control the task completed percentage on the task list page?”
Add task page: The circle-shaped button from the progress graph, as it can confuse users to control from the graph.
The user can now see the graph for progress, but will not try to control it manually.
High Fidelity Wireframes
Next Steps
Added two potential next steps pages.
These features offer practical solutions to common organization challenges. Users can visualize how to arrange their space with inspiration from others and find the right furniture with a simple click, streamlining their journey to a clutter-free home.
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