How will you mind your time?

With Mind Your Time, I want users to be able to:

1. Track their time and activity spent doing whatever activity they want to track—hours worked freelancing, studying, or volunteering.
2. Record their mood in relation to the event—customized or pre-defined—as empowered, happy, satisfied, defeated, neutral, or ecstatic.
3. Observe trends and learn whether or not they feel certain moods along with certain activities and view amount of hours spent.

I also want to ensure that the app enables more customizations that what I outlined above, so if the user wants to include a different kind of activity or mood, they can.

For navigation, I was heavily influenced by two apps I use regularly, Instagram and Clue. I use both nearly every single day and I’m a big fan as to how the designers focused on content first. Inspired by the top and bottom framing of both apps, I thought through the steps a first-time user will take when they open the app and a regular user once they are logged in to use the app potentially multiple times a day. I spent a lot of time thinking, “What is the first thing a user will want to do when they open the app?”

I learned quickly I wanted the user to be able to add a new post immediately when opening the app. Combining that idea with my calendar integration plan made adding a new post irrelevant, if Mind Your Time already knows what you did, it just needs a little bit more detail from you. So I chose to make the calendar the first focus. All other navigation ideas flowed easily from there.

Categorized in: How to Use, UX Design