Mobile App, UI/UX Design & Human-center Design
OnePicker

Taking the Human-center Design course, I follow the process of the needfinding, creating problem statement and create the solution, and finally I made the app help people to make decisions in double choices.

  • Role
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Sort
  • Individual Project
  • Date
  • 9/2021
  • Duration
  • 2 Months
  • Problem
  • Abstract Influcing Elements

People are hard to pick one if they have two choices. Why? They do know the influencing elements. The problem is that these factors are abstract, discrete, and cannot be measured in some way. It is not like a mathematical algorithm, which can be compared by calculation.

  • Solution
  • Quantify influencing elements

Users rate all the factors that influence the choice, rated as matter, maybe matter, and not matter. Assigned according to each level, 20, 10, and 0 points. According to users’ customized labeling system, matching similar user choices and factors, the application provides related reference for the user to make choice.

Needfinding & Interviews
Needfinding & Interviews
Analysis

I have a friend who got married soon. He discussed future plans with his wife, such as life stages, having children, etc. There were always disagreements, and each discussion went nowhere. Among my friends who happen to be my age, there are also several who are just married, so I do the next interviews.

Analysis

I also analyzed the interviews of several interviewees who were greatly affected by the issue of marriage urges. I found that these women wanted to show their independence to their parents, so that parents could understand that pushing for marriage would do nothing but make them annoyed, or that they also had enough independence to keep a good life themselves.

Then

After my interviews with multiple friends on the topic of marriage. I found that for Chinese people, getting married is a big turning point in life. For post-marriage, pre-marriage problems are more common. The matter of urging marriage is a very common problem in the age group of 25 to 30 years old. Among the interviewees, women are the most affected by this issue..

Need Statement

International Chinese graduated female students around 25 years old needs to fill their respect needs because they want to be treated as an independent adult can make their own decisions.

Persona
Brainstorm

What are indenpent abilities?

Brainstorm

How to show?

Be treated by their parents as independent adults
Show their parents signal
Signal= What they get after they review their decision --> Efforts and Responsibility.
How Might We
How might we help International Chinese graduated female students in the U.S.to be treated by their parents as independent adults through showing their parents what they learned after making their own decision?
Final Idea
I want to design an app that can help users make their own choices by quantifying the influencing factors when faced with two choices, and referring to the decisions made by users similar to the user in the database. After making decision, maybe 1 week or 1 months later, user can review the decision that recording what efforts they made and what responsibilities they took.
Main Functions
1. Build your own tag system.
2. Quantify influencing elements give the decisions number value.
3. Refer to the decision history of similar users.
4. Record efforts and responsibilities.
About tag system
Tags:
About community Reference
System will connect the words with relationship. Like MFA and graduated students that different words but have similar meaning. Like if u search buying a car, it will show the summary of similar question of similar users. This is about database algorithm.
About quantifying influencing Elements
  • All influencing elements are dividing into 3 levels: Matter, might matter and not matter.
  • Converting levels into score is 20 points, 10 points and 0 points.
  • Every problem have 5 default elements and users can add more.
  • For example: Should I buy a car?
    • YES or NO
    • 5 Elements: Distance, Cost, Parking, Car maintenance, Usage frequency.
      • Cost is not a problem, so add YES 10 points, and NO 20 points.
      • Live away from school, so for distance, add YES 20 points, NO 0 point.
      • School and house have parking, add YES 0 point, NO 10 point.
      • Car maintenance, wash car once a month, NOt a problem, add YES 10 points, NO 20 points.
      • Always go out for fun, add YES 20 points, NO 0 points.
      • Final: YES 60 points, NO 50 points
Flow Chart
Information Architecture
Prototype
Mockup
Check Interactive Prototype
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