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 take a break, so we have a separate streamlined task flow for that. This means deemphasizing navigation to this “task feed” somewhat, so I wasn’t quite sure how to represent the first box for the start of this task. I think it’s even possible that users could only navigate to the “task feed” after completing a task to make sure it can’t be a distraction before the break and also possibly serve as a reward for taking the break.
The second flow is more clear: when a user completes a task, they get to see which friends also completed the task. This is meant to serve as a small reward for taking the break, and hopefully support the “well if other people also do it then I’m more likely to keep doing it” mentality.
I made sketchy screens of the second flow because we’re more certain that it will be implemented; the “task feed” flow may be omitted either by pragmatic restraint or just because we may still decide it is out of scope of the core values of the app.
These photos are for the task: “Take your best ‘tourist supporting the leaning tower of Pisa’ photo.”
For this task flow, I wanted to show what the core screen of “friends who also did this task” would look like, and how a user would get there. One of the most important things I wanted to emphasize in the core screen was minimalism. Ideally users would spend 10–30 seconds on the screen before moving somewhere else. We want the social element for its little extra bit of dopamine reward, but without the distraction of social media. Users should be able to look at their friends’ photos and maybe get a small giggle, but they shouldn’t get caught up by comments, likes, or reactions. The lack of interaction will also hopefully constrain the expectations of a task “submission” so users will not worry about getting the “perfect photo” for the maximum number of likes. The point of this screen is simply to support the idea that other people the user knows are also going outside and doing tasks.