Breakout
Mobile App, UX/ UI
Role
UX Research, UX / UI Designer
Overview
This page will take you on a journey through the design process of building a collaborative workout app to relieve body aches and pains while working as a team.
Project
Ironhack UX/ UI Bootcamp gave us 2 weeks to complete all UX research and UI design. It was an individual project with the aim to produce a high fidelity app based on wellness.
Problem Statement
Given the COVID Pandemic and the recent shifts of lifestyle habits, most users are now working or studying from home. This is great news in many ways, however, there are some negative side effects. People are moving less than ever before and have reported physical aches and pains due to sedentary routines. They are also experiencing social isolation and say that they lack social interactions in their day-to-day lives.
My mission was to solve both problems at once. And it was time to do some research.
Procedure
Complete user surveys and interviews
Perform market research and a competitive analysis
Create a user and develop their User Journey and Scenario
User Flow, Wireframing, Prototyping, and Testing
Focus Areas
What do users need to solve their current pain points?
What are competitors doing and how can the app distinguish itself against the competition?
How to create an experience that allows the app to succeed?
Key Customer Needs
Structure
Users expressed the need of an app to be structured to allow them to customize according to their needs.
Ease of Use
Creating workout events in an easy and intuitive way.
Tailored Workouts
Customizing workouts to target users’ physical pain points to ease their aches and improve their lifestyle habits.
Collaboration
Adding team members to motivate users to do workouts and be able to see results.
Solutions
Given user research and extensive investigation, the app Breakout was created with the following solutions resolving current pain points and needs:
Create Workout Event
With this feature, the user can create a workout event with the recurrence of their choosing, at a date and time that works best with their schedule. Perfect for work breaks. It can be personalized to add a workout according to the users bodily aches and pains, so they can improve and ease them and create a healthy lifestyle by scheduling workouts that brings them out of sedentary habits. It also allows the possibility of adding team members to the workout, to create a sense of work or study community and motivation to perform the exercises as a team.
Event Alarm
When it is time to carry out a workout, a notification will appear to remind the users. It can be tailored to their schedule, as they have the option to postpone the alarm to a later time or date. This allows flexibility with users’ busy schedules and a constant reminder to complete workouts so that users don’t forget.
Results
The results page informs the users of their progress at every step and also has a collaborative feature so that they can see event results and results of their team members. They can also react or message users to keep motivation levels high and reinforce collaboration efforts.