Auri

Providing solutions for missed messages and notification overload

ACADEMIC PROJECT
Desktop Application

TEAM
Maxine Ancheta

DURATION
6 weeks
Feb—Mar 2025

SOFTWARE
Figma

IDEATION
This assignment brief was left intentionally open-ended, leaving us to explore a variety of avenues for problems we wanted to target and solutions we wanted to create. Drawing from our own experiences of message and notification overload, we found that billions of people worldwide utilize various messaging applications, receiving hundreds of notifications per day across platforms. This often causes important messages to be buried or forgotten.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
Individuals struggle with managing their incoming messages across multiple platforms, leading to missed and delayed responses. How might we help overwhelmed individuals to respond to messages so that they can maintain timely connections in their personal and professional lives?

Figjam BRAINSTORMING

Utilizing a variety of brainstorming methods to kickstart ideation and concept development

Assumption Prioritization

Categorizing assumptions in order to structure and direct our research

Competitor Analysis

Targeting both direct and indirect competitors to get a better idea of market demands, competing features, and what gaps we can fill with our own application

USER PERSONAS

Splitting our potential users into four personas with the intent of concentrating our research, as well as designing a customizable experience that is useful and applicable to each of the groups

Contextual inquiries & Empathy map

Observing our two main user personas to get a sense of wants, needs, and how to apply these into our application

User Survey

Gathering information from real-world users on their messaging habits and preferences

Journey Map

Structuring a hypothetical customer experience to better understand emotional responses, pain points, and opportunities

User Journey

Focus on creating an flow that supports the user, guides them through the process, and allows them to reverse mistakes

Lo-Fi Sketches

Initial concept development for overall app layout, with focus on organizing locations for potential features

Mid-Fi wireframes

Further development of inbox, messaging space, and dashboard, in addition to some components

DESIGN SYSTEM

Typography and color systems (note that workspace color systems would be more extensive than the five included, as further color options are customizable for each user workspace)

Final Solutions

Giving users access to every tool they need, in a single application that allows them to personalize their entire experience

ONBOARDING
Allows users to link accounts and create initial workspaces. Everything done in the onboarding stage is editable later on through dashboard or account settings

CUSTOMIZABLE WIDGETS
Allows users to tailor their home dashboard to their individual needs, adding or removing widgets as they desire

EXPANDABLE WORKSPACE MENU
Menu is expandable to view workspace titles, as well as preset keyboard shortcuts

DASHBOARD

The dashboard is the default opening page of the application, giving users an overview of their notifications within all workspaces