To-Do

There is nothing more important in these days than having a good app where you can organize the activities that you will do during the day.

To develop it, I used diversed methods used in the company UXMA for UX-Design.

In the first phase of the project, the problem was defined: How can I work the best im Home-Office and not be distracted by the household to do’s?

In order to do this, we answered the following questions:

1. What is the problem or question? What is it about?

2. Why is this problem important?

3. What is to be achieved? Why it’s worth to solve this problem? What would change?

This information is basic to start the research of this project.

Afterwards, the analysis of the problem continued with the Five Why’s Method.

Through repeated “why” questions, deep-seated causes of problems can be determined and analyzed quickly and flexibly. Sakichi Toyoda cultivated the method as part of the lean manufacturing approach.

The method helps to develop causality chains for problems with low to medium complexity. The “Circle of Whys” as a method extension encourages the user not only to proceed linearly.

Who is affected by the Problem?

This method helps to know which people are affected by the problem and with what severity. In the center we can see the people that get more affected and in the perimeter the less.

To get to know better the user of this app, we also created a Persona, through who we analyzed the necesities and costums of the user.

Aftewards, a Problem Statement was made. The problem statement is a concise description of the main problem that needs to be solved. It is a focus aid.

In the “Was wäre, wenn?”

Method (“What if” Method in english) the process is questioned on the basis of common stereotypes about the status quo. The participants consider what the consequences would be if the stereotypes were reversed.