INTAGROW
An interactive time management app, INTAGROW: cultivating gardens, nurturing focus.
Having trouble putting your phone down and staying focused? With INTAGROW, users can cultivate virtual gardens by setting timers and staying off their phones, fostering mindfulness, and a lovable green space.
Team
Neharika Sidda, Greta Yu
Role
User research & synthesis, Documentation, Visual design
Timeline
April 2021; 3 weeks
Deliverable(s)
Client facing presentation & mockups
The Problem
Since the COVID-19 pandemic's shift to online learning, students have been struggling with their management of time and productivity.
The Solution
Changes made to the interactive technologies used by students can make a space for students to better their time management habits.
The Outcome
A gamified time-management mobile and desktop application (UI concept). Built based on user research collected from students facing unproductivity during online learning.
Ideation
We began this project by assigning tasks to a prioritization matrix. This made delegating roles/tasks much easier and also allowed us to identify areas we need to dedicate more or less time to
User
Research
The following is a series of questions posed to gain insights on online learning students' experiences with time management and usage of platforms to help them with managing thier workloads.
Students identified poor time management and not being able to make friends as some of the worst aspects of online learning.
When asked whether online learning was as effective as face to face learning, nearly 94% of our participants answered no.
The information collected through our survey helped formed the direction our solution would take.
Synthesis
Using the research we collected I was able to synthesize most of it into a series of personas, empathy & journey maps to better understand our user base.
User Persona
Journey Map
Empathy Map
After having decided on the direction for our project (a mobile application) it was important for us to work out the feasibility of building the application.
To do so, we organized our thoughts into Questions, Assumptions, and Insights, based on our ideation phases and our collection of user research
Reasoning
User research helped us pinpoint users' pain points as well as identify when they experience them in their journeys.
I brainstormed design solutions for each of the users' pain points to see where they would take us.
Solution
INTAGROW is a mobile & desktop application in the genre of 'idle-games' it allows users to set a timer for as long as they wish and as they stay off of the app, they have a garden growing in the meantime.
Our aim is to provide users with a productive and rewarding way of staying on task and a rewarding method of holding themselves accountable for that.
With a simple and relaxing layout we hope to keep our users engaged through rewards while maintaining minimal involvement to allow users to complete their goals.
As the user completes goals they set for themselves, the user is able to advance levels and collect points which they are then able to redeem for plant variations to beautify their gardens.
Future
Steps
To further refine the app there are a couple areas we'd have to shift our focus to such as:
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Continuously collect & implement user feedback for all aspects of the app & building user research.
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Consistently work with end-users to develop app interface & experience to cater directly to userbase.
© 2024 Neharika Sidda | Made with ♡ in Vancouver, BC
© 2024 Neharika Sidda | Made with ♡ in Vancouver, BC
INTAGROW
An interactive time management app, INTAGROW: cultivating gardens, nurturing focus.
Having trouble putting your phone down and staying focused? With INTAGROW, users can cultivate virtual gardens by setting timers and staying off their phones, fostering mindfulness, and a lovable green space.
Team
Neharika Sidda, Greta Yu
Role
User research & synthesis, Documentation, Visual design
Timeline
April 2021; 3 weeks
Deliverable(s)
Client facing presentation & mockups
The Problem
Since the COVID-19 pandemic's shift to online learning, students have been struggling with their management of time and productivity.
The Solution
Changes made to the interactive technologies used by students can make a space for students to better their time management habits.
The Outcome
A gamified time-management mobile and desktop application (UI concept). Built based on user research collected from students facing unproductivity during online learning.
© 2024 Neharika Sidda | Made with ♡ in Vancouver, BC
© 2024 Neharika Sidda | Made with ♡ in Vancouver, BC
Ideation
We began this project by assigning tasks to a prioritization matrix. This made delegating roles/tasks much easier and also allowed us to identify areas we need to dedicate more or less time to
User Research
The following is a series of questions posed to gain insights on online learning students' experiences with time management and usage of platforms to help them with managing thier workloads.
Students identified poor time management and not being able to make friends as some of the worst aspects of online learning.
When asked whether online learning was as effective as face to face learning, nearly 94% of our participants answered no.
The information collected through our survey helped formed the direction our solution would take.
Synthesis
Using the research we collected I was able to synthesize most of it into a series of personas, empathy & journey maps to better understand our user base.
After having decided on the direction for our project (a mobile application) it was important for us to work out the feasibility of building the application.
To do so, we organized our thoughts into Questions, Assumptions, and Insights, based on our ideation phases and our collection of user research
Reasoning
User research helped us pinpoint users' pain points as well as identify when they experience them in their journeys.
I brainstormed design solutions for each of the users' pain points to see where they would take us.
Solution
INTAGROW is a mobile & desktop application in the genre of 'idle-games' it allows users to set a timer for as long as they wish and as they stay off of the app, they have a garden growing in the meantime.
Our aim is to provide users with a productive and rewarding way of staying on task and a rewarding method of holding themselves accountable for that.
With a simple and relaxing layout we hope to keep our users engaged through rewards while maintaining minimal involvement to allow users to complete their goals.
As the user completes goals they set for themselves, the user is able to advance levels and collect points which they are then able to redeem for plant variations to beautify their gardens.