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Timer

Mobile APP

Service Design

UX/UI

B2C

Timer is a mobile application designed to help users keep track of every product they already own, especially time-sensitive items, and to gather information and give them timely feedback so they can better avoid waste.
It is a personal project inspired by neighbours and personal experiences.

Roles & Responsibilities

· Research: Research: Field investigation, User Interviews, User Interviews

· UX Design: Sketches, Wireframing, Usability Testing

Project Context

· 2020

· 10 weeks

Tools Used

· Sketch

· Principle (Prototype)

Challenge

The modern city dweller spends a lot of energy on work every day, and so his or her energy for life is reduced to a minimum, often not noticing changes at home or forgetting small things such as what vegetables and fruit are in the fridge, or whether the medication he or she keeps at home is effective. This can lead to a lot of unnecessary waste or trouble due to the lack of information.

· How can users manage time-sensitive items in their homes with little effort?

· How can users use what they already have in a more appropriate and secure way?

Challenge

· How can users manage time-sensitive items in their homes with little effort?

· How can users use what they already have in a more appropriate and secure way?

Research

By recording and observing the items and foods in my own home, I have found that fruits and medications have a relatively short expiry date and each has appropriate storage conditions that are likely to cause storage problems or use problems when the user takes them home.

Date Support

At the same time, I have learned from collecting online hospital data that the number of people suffering from drug misuse and food poisoning in China is increasing every year.

Interview

After 2 rounds of open structured interviews with young working people, I found that most of the keywords that resonated with the conversations revolved around expiry dates, medication use, and food storage.

After compiling all the key information from the research, I created an affinity diagram to analyse the key issues and ways to solve them, and merged ideas based on the mind map.

Design

Work-flow

Create a suitable flow framework based on the solution, corresponding to each function and logic of the app to make it as logical and easy to use as possible.

Low-fidelity

User testing

Give the low fidelity to 10 users for separate user testing.

Does it work?
The position of each function is clear and easy to get started.

What's redundant?
Home page alerts are a bit confusing, the settings page is not user-friendly to operate.

Score: 8.5/10

High-fidelity

Reminder of expiry time and quantity

The multi-dimensional content arrangement list is clear and intuitive.

Quick purchase & Shopping recommendation

Don't worry about the shortage of items, buy the required items with one click.

Item information entry

Scan the product barcode or manually enter the item information to easily enter the list.

Item details summary

Each item page will have detailed usage criteria, recommended storage methods and specific expiry dates.

Add location

This is for users who must aggregate information about items from various locations and compile all available data.

Reflections

· Details can drive product creativity

There are actually many small things around us that can go on to trigger a design that may require us to break out of a lot of our otherwise fixed thinking to recreate it. Even though the changes may end up being small, I always have to maintain a willingness to innovate to think things through.

· Be more developmental in my thinking

I had shared this project of my own in a communication and one of the teachers at the time gave me a very visionary suggestion: you could try to incorporate the IoT theory. This immediately opened my mind because now the concept of smart home technology interconnection is applied by many manufacturers.