UX / UI Portfolio

USER
RESEARCH

• Lack of understanding of my habits
• IoT apps are hard to navigate
• Dashboard is not very customizable

1. Control - House critical parameters
2. Smartness - Task automation
3. Security - House systems health

User priorities

Pain points

direct interview

Context-aware
Dashboard

Users need different controls over their house, depending on where they are. Homio's Dashboard senses where the user is located, and adapts showing the right controls

Behaviour

Needs

Pain Points

The persona wakes up and starts to perform the usual morning tasks. S/he will be sleepy and will perform all the tasks in “auto-pilot”, like s/he is in a state of semi-consciousness

• Wake up smoothly
• Morning repetitive tasks
• News and general info + commute info
• Get ready to go to work

Lack of automation in morning repetitive tasks. Dashboard with relevant informations is missing

Behaviour

Needs

Pain Points

S/he will take the car or some public transportation and spend, from few minutes to an hour, to reach the workplace

• Know the transportation status (like traffic or strikes)
• Know the weather
• Prepare something entertaining to listen along the journey

Dashboard with relevant information for commute is needed

Behaviour

Needs

Pain Points

The persona wants to discharge the tension of a work day. S/he relaxes, washes up and gets ready for a relaxing afternoon of leisure or jus to do some errands

• Check kids behaviour and needs
• Have a warm bath or a shower
• Check the status of a personal hobby

App doesn’t understand the right time to display the information I need

Behaviour

Needs

Pain Points

The persona starts working on a personal project or pursue an hobby (reading, DYI, sport)

• Check the status of Family members
• Check the status of the house
• Check the status of some hobby

Lack of multipurpose monitoring sensors to monitor non standard devices

Behaviour

Needs

Pain Points

The persona will prepare to smoothly fall asleep. Warming up a cup of tea and deciding what to watch on Netflix

• Overview of the TV schedule or Netflix new episodes
• Be sure the house systems are in good condition for the night

No app shows the right information at the right time of the day

JOURNEY

USER PRIORITIES

PERSONAS

at home

I bet you have different needs when you are

at work

I bet you have different needs when you are

travelling

I bet you have different needs when you are

Cerberus is a great app for security and control of mobile devices. It comes with tons of useful features, but with a poor User experience

so I redesigned it

Phone Hooked!

not connected

Now you are remotely in control of your phone

functions REORGANIZED

phone stolen?

All the functions have been organized by type for a faster and more intuitive access

Functions Organized

Try the Emergency Mode

The Emergency mode is not available in the app, I tried to rearrange the existing functions to give the user more dexterity in the chase of the thief

Emergency Mode

current Cerberus UI

More than aesthetic improvements I reorganized the functions because they were accessible through a long uncategorized textual list.

All the functions are only accessible through a long dropdown menu with no categorization

Just Eat is a popular food delivery app. I tried to redesign and optimize the UX

current Just Eat UI

Other than give it an appearance less spartan and austere, I think we can optimize the information flow by saving some user interaction.

The typical use of food delivery app is from home or from few known places, than we can save the user the first clicks assuming he/she is in the last known place and ask What you’re up to?

I also added the possibility to specify who ordered what in a group of friends (the most common use case), so everybody can easily know their money contribution to the total

my revision

update

right after I used Just Eat UI for this example, they updated their UI. I’m happy to see they fixed the Information flow in the same way I suggested in my personal redesign of their UI