Product:
AirAQ App
Timeline:
June 2021 – September 2021
My Role:
UX Research, UI/UX Design
Tools:
Figma, FigJam, Notion.
Platform:
Hybrid
Team Collaboration:
Product, Business, and Tech.
AirQI provides real-time and forecast air pollution and weather data. Our main challenge is to design a hybrid app that provides an intuitive customize experience to its users.
Design a conversion-friendly user flow.
Get more efficient, functional, and scalable apps with more efficient, and functional.
Our main challenge was to design a web app that facilitates its users to know about air quality and weather information.
It has to be easily used by non-tech people.
Users can get air quality and weather updates through notifications for saved & current locations.
Users can get air quality and weather forecast.
Users can also request air quality information data.
The UX Process
When we have minimal time and resources, selecting an efficient, sustainable, and flexible design process is always challenging. I have chosen the approach to the Lean UX process. It is an iterative process with three simple steps.
Think
Make
Check
...and keep repeating the steaps.
The Discovery
The discovery phase was a quick, high‐intensity effort that allowed us to -
Define project goals and milestones
Review the existing solutions by other similar products
Understand business visions
Empathize the users' needs, behaviors, and pain‐points
Understand technological feasibility and constraints.
Here are three considerations that help me to understand and prioritize the issues.
How satisfying is the solution for users?
How well is this solution for users' problem solving and also good for business?
How challenging would it be to build from the technical feasibilities and limitations?
The Findings
We have sessions with 10 targeted users. We also had brainstorming discussion sessions with our internal cross-functional team members. So what we found-
I analyzed IQAir, BreezoMeter, Plume Labs, Airveda, and other popular air quality information provider apps. I analyzed their user journey flows, information architecture, and information presentation flows.
Idation & Testing
The following steps were to sketch wireframes based on the user flow maps and built the flow and low-fidelity prototype for a series of testing sessions.
Creating wireframes helped me to visualize the ideas and gave us the basic structure for how users would use the app.
When creating these wireframes, we kept the user needs from the earlier findings and research in mind.
I have done several testing sessions with a close group of users.
Design System & UI Design
Initially, we built basic style guidelines. Afterward, we built a highly customisable design system to create a design language. Based on it, we move forward to designing high fedality design screens.
I have designed a design style guideline and reusable components.
Testing & Validation
The goal was to assess the app's overall usability and identify areas for improvements that could facilitate the completion of the tasks. The participants were given the same set of jobs.
Due to the NDA issue, I've only shared the information authorized by the authority.
Refine & Deploy
Based on the usability testing sessions, we refined and updated the design. Then, we created deliverables for development handover. I maintained continuous communication with the developers during the development period.
After the successful deployment, it is time to collect feedback from the user.
Results & Future Iteration
As it was an one-time client project, I don’t have the opportunity to messure the results.
Although, I always prefer to follow mixed approach of Design Thinking and the Lean UX design process for continuous product development.
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