UXD TASK MANAGER
A concept project based on user research, to help freelancers accomplish their work smoothly
THE CHALLENGE
Coronavirus situation has taken many jobs from offices to home, and organizations have faced a new experience of working with their own employees. Also, staff are seeking to acquire the necessary skills to perform telecommuting tasks and maintain the former effectiveness of trying to adapt to such conditions.
This space was also an opportunity to experience freelance projects and prepared more designers to work in terms of cross-sections.
This requires the development of skills needed to advance freelance projects for designers, such as effective communication with the employer, time management, task and outputs management.
I was asked by my instructor Mr Ali Babaei(instructor of UX design at Amanj Academy) to help improve the implementation of freelance design projects through a digital platform that helps them to control and manage their tasks, processes, time and communication to increase their productivity.
USER RESEARCH
I used the interview as my research method for understanding the user needs and empathy with them.
I asked the users the questions about :
0-100 processes of a freelance project including finding a project, set the contract, set the brief of the project and ...
How they interact with the employer and other members of the group
The format of the final works that they send for the employer.
The application they use for managing their tasks.
...
I used the interview as my research method for understanding the user needs and empathy with them.
PERSONAS
KEY FEATURES
HOME PAGE
•Time tracker of 3 active projects
•Icon of projects
•Add new project
•Tab bar (home, notifications ,comments ,output)
TASKING PAGE
•Brief phase
•Research phase
•Ideation phase
•Prototype phase
•Getting task report output for each phase
•Insert the link of prototype and flows and ...
TEAM WORKING
•Add member to the project
•Editing task
•Comment
•Time tracker of all projects on the same page
•Choose time for the start and end of each phase
TIMING BOX
•Total Time tracker
•Time tracker for each phase
USER FELOW
WIREFRAME
paper and digital wireframe
USABILITY TEST
The primary prototype was given to several freelance UX designers to accomplish the task below.
User should do these actions in the order he/she wants:
•Creating an account
•Creating a project
•Add the product manager
•Admission him to change to define a story idea for a project
•Determine a period of time to accomplish brief
•Uploading a link or an image on the story idea page
•Getting the output of brief as PDF
The result of the test showed some errors:
•Misunderstanding about the time icons (3/4 of users)
•Delay in recognizing the creation of new project icon (3/4 of users)
•Misunderstanding about the output icon location (2/4 of users)
the changes according to the results of the test applied in the interface design phase.
