Jumpstarting mornings on a positive note.
For this two week design sprint, I worked with the fabulous Jaycee Masucci to create a smart tv design that delivers digestible and useful content to make mornings enjoyable.
For this two week design sprint, I worked with the fabulous Jaycee Masucci to create a smart tv design that delivers digestible and useful content to make mornings enjoyable.
Concept, Visual, UX/UI
2 weeks, Fall 2018
00 ─ PURPOSE
With set schedules and limited downtime in the morning, we wanted to leverage design to help users make the most of their mornings in an enjoyable and interactive manner.
01 ─ RESEARCH
As our design was to leverage the capabilities of smart television technology inside our user's home, extensive research was conducted in order to best understand the limitations and considerations involved with the tech.
The AppleTV is an entertainment focused device that allows users to access a large assortment of applications, all through their personal television. AppleTV presented us with not just an unorthodox technology to design for, but allowed us to explore how we could design for environments beyond our mobile devices.
As users would be viewing our design at an average distance of 10 feet, we had to take into heavy consideration the accurate scaling of typography and interactive elements to keep usability consistent throughout our design.
Because the AppleTV is a focus-based device and the remote is built to reflect that, we had to consider how to effectively design the way our users would navigate through our design using the limited gestures of the remote. The AppleTV remote allows a user to swipe and tap to navigate. As well, we had to consider the menu button also functioning as a "back" button, and pulling in the Play/Pause button as a trigger for specific in-application functions.
To better understand what sorts of activities our users were doing during their mornings, we conducted a user survey of 41 people that were practicing a consistent morning routine.
As our users routines were short and to the point, we had to focus on the limited points of downtime during a routine.
However, we realized no two mornings are the same, so we had to consider the existence of a personalized onboarding setup for our design.
Let's face it, morning routines are busy, and have limited opportunities for interaction with technology. Because of this, we designed in mind with targeting the time of waiting a user may have while waiting for their morning cup of coffee or tea to be ready.
02 ─ WIREFRAMES
Because of the short timespan of this project, we decided to go straight into rapidly producing high-fi wireframes in order to better learn the potential gaps between our designs and the overall goal of our project.
After our first round of wireframes, we realized that our designs were much too complex for a morning routine application. We decided to tweak our designs to rely on expandable, card-based content.
When looking at our wireframes, we felt that they had a cold nature to them. Because we wanted our user to feel motivated and energized for their morning, we decided to implement an amiable and fun companion into our design.
He’s an aussie cup’a’brew who wants to make a user's morning routine more personalized and efficient. Our design for Joey plays off of the "cup of joe" saying and adds an amiable and personal feeling to our design.
He’s an aussie cup’a’brew who wants to make a user's morning routine more personalized and efficient. Our design for Joey plays off of the "cup of joe" saying and adds an amiable and personal feeling to our design.
03 ─ OUR SOLUTION
After working through the kinks of our wireframes, we set to designing an effective solution to our purpose and research.
The morning summary is populated by real-time, up-to-date information cards displaying digestible and glanceable content about the day. A user can then tap into the card to expand it into a full-screen experience.
As a user swipes through their morning summary, Joey provides them with friendly, conversational updates about their day, as well as some general information that would be important to the user.
To give the user another level of connection to Joey, we made our illustrations visually responsive to the news Joey is delivering, adding another layer of personality into our project while still maintaining our informative tone.
As consistent as mornings may be, there's always the chance of a wrench in our plans. With this in mind, we designed a mobile flow that allowed a users morning summary to be sent directly to their phone, allowing an on-the-go experience (PS, the car is called the Joeyota Camry).
FINCONCLUSION
As my first experience with a project sprint, Jaycee and I were forced to think on our feet and come up with practical and realistic solutions in a timely manner. Moving forward, we want to dive into the onboarding flow of the application, as well as how a user would add sections to their morning summary through the application.
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But here's more about me! I'm a user experience designer who isn't afraid of the hustle, but is terrified of the Goliath Birdeater Spider. I'm an early 2000's pop lover, and I make a mean buffalo chicken dip. Wanna talk? Get in touch!
But here's more about me! I'm a user experience designer who isn't afraid of the hustle, but is terrified of the Goliath Birdeater Spider. I'm an early 2000's pop lover, and I make a mean buffalo chicken dip. Wanna talk? Get in touch!