Role

UI/UX Designer

Duration

9 months

The challenge

Design and develop a mobile app that simplifies the process of finding the best availability between friends to hang out and spend time with each other. Create the best solution for selecting an event time between people with busy schedules while designing supporting features that help with user retention.

Introduction + background

A challenging but incredible project to work on has been my senior capstone project–a nine month group mobile app development project where we experienced the ideation, research, design, development, and establishment of our creation. Posed with the opportunity to create any app of our choosing, we decided to focus on a common problem in social and professional spaces–having an easy, stress-free way to find common availability between busy people so they can find the best time to hang out.

Juncture is a calendar app designed to make planning social events easier, allowing users to create events with friends, automatically find the perfect time by syncing with their existing calendars, and share their event photos within the app.

My role

As one of two UI/UX designers on the team, my role throughout the process has involved ideation, designing, prototyping, branding and marketing, and ensuring a smooth dev-hand off.

The core problem

Through an initial survey, we found that the biggest challenge in scheduling events with friends was, overwhelmingly, finding a common time. The scheduling platforms already on the market do an inadequate job of resolving this problem, often being more business focused or fail to provide support for the users’ existing calendar platform. Additionally, a lot of event planning happens in group chats, which tend to be unreliable at best.

This posed a great opportunity to find the best solution which eases the experience of finding a common time for friends to spend together.

Timeline

As a nine month project, designing and developing this app was quick-paced and challenging. This meant we had to have a diligent cycle of iterating on design, outputting deliverables for user testing, synthesizing testing results, and making design decisions for each design sprint.

Design: Sketches & Ideation

Below are a few sketches I did to explore possibilities of features for our app, including what clicking into a calendar event could look like or what your profile could feature.

Design: Lo-Fi prototype

Lo-Fi prototype.

Design: Mid-Fi prototype

Mid-Fi prototype.

Design: High-Fi prototype

High-Fi prototype.

Get in Touch

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