Redefining Your Relationships
Angelic Software is a small startup attempting to change the way people navigate social interaction.
My role as lead UX Designer was to design user flow and interactions, production of wireframes and prototypes, as well as conducting research into the market receptivity of the product. I conducted 2 surveys and built prototypes on a weekly basis over 6 months to be discussed and reviewed.
Product Hypothesis
This project started from the concept that we do not give as much time to the significant people in our lives as much as we should. Dead bedrooms and forgotten family members seem to be commonplace stories in our modern world where technology affords us instant gratification and distraction. Our team wanted to address this by using technology to improve our relationships with the people in our lives.
To see if our theory that people have trouble maintaining relationships, we distributed a survey to friends, family, and Reddit. The results were conclusive: people have trouble staying in touch. Whether it be from being too busy, to merely not remembering to call, we have many reasons why we fail to keep in touch.
Lean Product and MVP
With our mission goals defined, we needed to figure out what would be the quickest and simplist implimentation of what we were trying to acheive. Initial developer goals were crude, essentially building a conversational engine to generate nice things to say. The other designer and I felt that this would be received poorly by family and friends, on the grounds that people receive enough spam today, they don't need it from their loved ones.
So we issued another survey regarding the reception of such canned lines, and people were not as offended by the thought as much as we initially predicted. I conceded to the data and we decided to maintain some generational features.
First Edition Mockup
We concluded that our MVP would consist of a relationship manager where the user can set interval reminders, take notes, and bookmark anniversaries and other special dates.
Priority and Prototypes
After discussing the potential of our product, we decided we needed to prioritize communications with people. For example, we wanted to be able to ensure that we never miss a birthday or anniversary, so events of that nature would be shuffled to the top. Subsequent messages would be sorted only by last message sent, in reverse chronological order(most recent at the bottom).
Second Edition Prototype
Prototyping in Adobe XD
All mockups were produced with Sketch and prototyped in both Invision and Adobe XD. This project is currently on hiatus.