Week 15: New Homepage Design

This week we made a significant change. We created a new home page!

After getting honest feedback from our mentors, we decided to create a new home page that will be more focused on our main features.

First, in the UX section, we opened our minds with inspiration from apps from different fields. Each of us (Communications & Psychology) has created her mood board with inspirations that can fit our app. We did the Mood Board in order to make a UI research and a UX elements research. In addition we made another academic research to discuss the colors valued and decide a color pattern for our app.

• We found that using shades of purple can form a background for the screen.

• We found that using shades of red and orange can form a background for buttons or frames.

• We found that using white and black can form as a color for the text.

We met together in order to create an updated draft for the app's main homepage, according to our users' comments from our last Guerilla tests and our mentors' feedback. We wanted to make a new attempt and we redesigned the homepage for our app and make it relevant to the MVP before moving forward to specific features.

Second, in the UI section, we started to think about the color palette to design the application. We thought about shades of orange, orange-pink, peach, cream, brown, and purple, which symbolize intimacy, creativity, surprise, friendship, belonging, and optimism.

After that, we took a new Guerilla test with our new home page to 3 users.

Insights:

• The gesture was perceived as a memory by the user. He sees it as an option to attach an album and not create a gesture.

• Scheduling was perceived by the user as impersonal. It was considered a degenerate option.

• ‘Pin by location’ button in the 2nd screen is perceived as an option to add a location to the gesture, rather than as a way to send it.

• Drawback- In order to receive a gesture based on location, users must leave the location sharing option open in the background.

• Users readily realize that this is an app that contributes to the presence of the partner.

• The examples of gesture creation are clear to the users.

• We should change the copy for the word gesture because it is not clear.

• We should make it more clear for the user that the schedule is only one week ahead.

This week we also did great work on the programming side:

In the first week of the semester, we started working on the app. We were working on getting and sending notifications through firebase cloud messages. But we had doubts about it.

As we read more and more about this service we realize that using this service will probably not be good enough. We noticed that firebase cloud messages cannot be timed with location as we need, and we also didn't want to be dependent on network service at the right time.

So Dotan came in friday especially to meet Eran in the lab and talk to him about it.

We discussed for one and half hours. We checked many different services and ideas untill they came up with a solution. In the end we created an amazing architecture that is easy to build and debag, have all the features that we want and isn't dependent on the cellular network as much.

Here is our architecture: for more information about it please check the link