For my task flow, I made flows for the two different areas of our app with social aspects. One of them is the ability to find new tasks by seeing which tasks your friends have completed. We wanted to avoid “decision paralysis” for task choice when a user wants to…

Mood Board We tried to go for a minimal aesthetic with a lot of soft greens (to inspire a casual going outside vibe). One source of inspiration was Forest because of how minimal the app is. It feels useful to have this kind of aesthetic when trying to make it as frictionless…

Brainstorm Filtration We started with chaos: Then we tamed it:

Intervention When designing our intervention, we started with some of the more intuitive, obvious ideas. From our personal experience, we knew that push notifications telling people to go outside would never work in practice. While the first couple might catch our attention, we knew notifications (like all context prompts) eventually become…

We’re team Go Outside. Naturally, we’re trying to encourage people to go outside more. Our interviews and journey maps focus on young adults who are eager to go outside more but for personal or external reasons just don’t find themselves doing so. For these journey maps, we went more in…

Assessment Criteria Since the pandemic started, we all realized that we’d like to be going outside more often. We thought about the apps that we’d used or seen others use that encourage them to go outside for our comparative research. We brainstormed a number of apps / services and came up with…

Go Outside: All team members must go outside for at least 30 minutes per day Every team meeting must have at least one member outside Every interview must be conducted with all team members outside Clear communication Respond to group messages (<6 hours roughly) In response: confirm task will be…

Recently, I haven’t been eating enough, basically out of laziness. I know it makes me feel bad the next day but somehow I haven’t been able to tackle it. It’s the first time I’ve been responsible for feeding myself without a dining hall. …