Soltar

USER RESEARCH | UX & UI DESIGN
Role
User Research | UX & UI Design
Tools
Sketch | Figma | Miró | Notion
Time
4 weeks
Team
Individual
Year
April | 2020
About the project
As my final Project for the boot camp, I had to identify a problem and apply all knowledge gained to find a final solution. I focused on stress from work, which has become more common due to expectations in the workplace and overtime.
Objective
Find an optimal solution that satisfies the user needs and permits them to experience the world of meditation step by step from the beginning. Therefore, they can have a short disconnection from their usual work tasks.

PROBLEM

Work stress is caused by a high level of tasks to complete and the excessive demands, which create a lot of tension and pressure for office employees that tend to work extra hours to fulfill assigned tasks.

DEFINE

Defining Soltar
After an in-depth investigation, it was more clear about what I was going to do, so I made a survey canvas. It allowed me to better focus the questions that I could use for the surveys and the script to carry out interviews; then, I could have more accurate data and better understand the problem and the needs of my prospective users.In order to understand more deeply about the topic, I researched using blueprint as a tool in order to dive into the root of the problem.
Empathize with the problem and capture the needs of the user, always placing it as the central point for the elaboration of a user persona

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

Benefit the user
Since the focus is work stress, I did an analysis of the competition. There are several options of mobile applications that offer meditation learning, a situation that is becoming more known, more commented, and applied by more people.

Recent popularity is due to the fact that devoting a few minutes to our mind and interior, even if it seems strange, helps to calm our interior and control the stress caused by our work or other personal issues.

In order to have a clear business approach, I made a lean ux canvas that helped give me an idea as to how to benefit the user.

IDEATION &
MVP

Functions & utilities
I prioritized aspects that the application had to possess and which ones it did not, in order to have a better vision of the approach that would be taken into account as it progressed in the ideation process.

The main functions and utilities of the app are a selection of short guided meditation, and recommendations of activities with other members of the community to disconnect from the daily routine to be more conscious of realizing other things that help us to be more meditative.

DESIGN &
STYLE GUIDE

Designing Soltar
After defining the functionalities of the application and searching for different types of visual references of digital product, I created a style guide which includes colors, fonts, components and other UI elements to continue with the product brand strategy.

FEATURES

High fidelity prototype

Short guide meditation to learn how to do it.
Recommendations of activities with other members of the community to disconnect from the daily routine.

CONCLUSIONS

Pandemic lessons
The challenges encountered in this project began because we were about to finish the boot camp, and the pandemic affected all of us; therefore, the whole learning dynamic changed to online mode, which was difficult at first, given that we had to apply everything we learned in this final and individual project.

However, the difficulties in such a situation, and in my particular experience, made me trust my knowledge, lose the fear of committing an error, follow my intuition, believe in myself and be confident with the decisions that I made. It allowed me to go with the flow of the process, because it was a learning process that I was developing on my own. When the moment came to present it to the class, I shared it with them in front of a screen, and I simply did the best that I could, with great pride for having successfully completed the boot camp.

The issue of stress is a somewhat complex and increasingly common amongst professionals, especially when reference to experiencing stress and not knowing how to manage it, both professionally and personally. Given the many applications that offer a related service, I was able to focus and better understand office workers, understand their needs, and find a product that mainly suits their needs and long working hours, so that they can dissipate a bit of the work routine, learn to connect with their mind and body for a short period of time and develop this routine into a habit.