A Smarter, Simpler Way to Build Better Habits & Stay Accountable
Organyze • 0 to 1 • Productivity UX • Habit Tracking • Social Accountability
Deliverables
High Fidelity Prototype
Low Fidelity Design
User Research
My Role
UX/UI Design
Low-Fidelity Wireframing
Project Scoping
Project Context
Fall 2022 (11 Weeks)
Course: HCDE 418 @ UW
Tools: Figma, Photoshop & Miro
Team: Rajbir Singh, Anahita Gharai, Tejus Krishnan
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Organyze helps users establish daily routines and build positive habits by leveraging their social circle to create accountability and meaningful connections that support a healthier lifestyle.
Vision Statement
Helping users take control of their time and build lasting habits!
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Throughout the day, people juggle multiple responsibilities—balancing work, education, and personal life. Whether maintaining routines or adapting to new lifestyles, habit formation is the foundation of daily success.
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Organyze empowers users to build and sustain positive habits by providing the structure, accountability, and social support needed to create a healthier, more organized life.
Research
Understanding the psychology of habit formation to create a smarter productivity tool!
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Studies show that habit formation is most effective when reinforced through consistency, cues, and rewards. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted daily routines, confining many individuals to a single environment—home—which made sustaining healthy and productive habits even more challenging.
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To address this, our team set out to design an intuitive and structured way for individuals to plan their day, track progress, and stay accountable—helping them build long-term, sustainable habits.
Personas
Designing for diverse productivity styles and habit-building needs!
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After conducting three user interviews and 60 survey responses, we developed two personas that represent a composite of our findings. Each persona was crafted with contrasting characteristics, reflecting variations in productivity levels, technology adoption, and attitudes toward habit formation.
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These personas helped us tailor our design decisions to accommodate a diverse range of users, ensuring Organyze remains intuitive, adaptable, and effective for different productivity styles.
User Journey Map
Mapping the habit-building experience through user behavior!
To better understand the user experience, we created a user journey map focused on Lillian, one of our key personas. This helped us explore how a tech-savvy but intentional user navigates a social media-driven routine experience—tracking how her thoughts, moods, and behaviors evolved as different actions took place.
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This journey map provided valuable insights into user engagement, motivation triggers, and potential friction points, helping us refine Organyze’s habit-building approach.
Design Process
Translating research insights into actionable design solutions!
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Based on user interviews, personas, and journey maps, we identified key design requirements to help users prioritize tasks, build habits, and stay accountable. Our goal was to create an intuitive and accessible experience that empowers users to establish consistent, productive daily routines.
🔹 Key Design Requirements:
✔ Prioritization – Help users focus on their most important tasks first.
✔ Clear Routine Visualization – Intuitively display daily routines & tasks.
✔ Habit Tracking – Provide a system for monitoring progress on new habits.
✔ Accountability – Implement features that encourage users to stay on track.
Design Goals:
✅ Reinforce a structured daily routine to boost productivity.
✅ Ensure accessibility for all users, including those with disabilities.
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By focusing on clarity, accountability, and inclusivity, Organyze empowers users to seamlessly integrate new habits into their daily lives.
Ideation + Brainstorming
Exploring innovative solutions to reinforce daily habits!
​Based on our design requirements, we conducted multiple team brainstorming sessions to generate and categorize solutions aligned with user needs. We explored a three-pronged approach, integrating software and hardware to help individuals create and manage their daily routines
🔹 Core Solutions:
​✔ Mobile App – A centralized tool for habit tracking and routine management.
✔ Smart Home Integration – Leveraging systems like Amazon Alexa for voice-activated habit reminders.
✔ Specialized Wall Projectors – Displaying daily routines in key home areas to reinforce habit formation.
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Our broader goal was to enable users to embed habit cues within their home environment, making routines more intuitive, visible, and actionable.
Storyboards
Visualizing real-world interactions with our habit-building system!
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Using our design requirements and proposed solutions from ideation, we developed a series of storyboards to depict how users would interact with both the mobile app and physical hardware in their daily routines. These scenario-driven pathways allowed us to illustrate ease of use, accessibility, and integration into real-world environments.
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Our goal was to communicate the convenience and effectiveness of Organyze, demonstrating how it effortlessly fits into users’ lives to reinforce positive habits.
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Project Scoping
Refining our solution to balance feasibility, accessibility, and user needs!
As we approached the prototyping stage of the design, we realized that our combined digital/physical solution would be too broad for the scope of our project and that we didn’t have a feasible way to represent the hardware component of our solution as a deliverable.
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To ensure feasibility, inclusivity, and user trust, we narrowed the focus to a mobile app, which provided:
✔ More feasible implementation within our project timeline.
✔ A more intuitive and accessible experience for a diverse user base.
✔ Greater alignment with user needs while addressing privacy concerns.
By shifting to a mobile-first approach, we ensured that Organyze remains inclusive, effective, and adaptable to a wide range of users and environments.
Product Features
Turning habit-building into a social and engaging experience!
By focusing solely on a mobile app, we had the time and flexibility to develop features that set Organyze apart from conventional calendar and task-management apps.
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Our most impactful addition was a social component, enabling users to share their routines with friends or the public through a "marketplace" of habits. Inspired by the popularity of morning routines from high-performing individuals, we designed a system where routines could be shared like social media posts, transforming the abstract world of self-help and productivity advice into a thriving, community-driven ecosystem.
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🔹 Core Workflows:
✔ Routines – The core function of the app, allowing users to create, edit, and share their tasks and habits.
✔ Social – A space to view and message friends, as well as engage with their routines.
✔ Featured – A public hub where users can share, discover, and curate routines for inspiration.
By integrating social engagement with productivity tools, Organyze reinvents habit tracking, making it collaborative, interactive, and motivating.
Information Architecture
Structuring Organyze for clarity, efficiency, and engagement!
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To establish a clear and intuitive user experience, we created an information architecture diagram in Figma, serving as a roadmap for key pages and functions. This structured approach ensured that our low-fidelity prototype effectively balanced usability, accessibility, and navigation, setting the foundation for a streamlined habit-building experience.
Wireframes + Low-Fidelity Prototype
Using our information architecture as a blueprint, we developed wireframes to visualize key layouts and interactions. We then converted these into a low-fidelity prototype, incorporating annotated screens to guide design decisions and ensure a seamless user experience in the next iteration.
Evaluation
To validate our low-fidelity prototype, we conducted user testing with high school students, allowing us to identify pain points, workflow inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement. Observing their interactions and gathering direct feedback helped us refine key aspects of the design.
🔹 Key Improvements Based on Feedback:
✔ Reorganized navigation – Switched the ‘Social’ and ‘Featured’ tabs to better emphasize community engagement while making the app feel less like a social media platform.
✔ Automated accountability messages – Introduced auto-generated reminders (e.g., “Don’t forget to meditate tomorrow when you wake up”) to encourage habit consistency.
✔ Enhanced real-time interaction – Added online status indicators to improve messaging efficiency and boost engagement.
By implementing these refinements, we ensured Organyze remained intuitive, engaging, and user-driven, enhancing both accountability and productivity.
Final Design
Reflection
Points of Growth 🌱
Organyze gave us the opportunity to answer a universal human need - creating healthy and productive habits - during a time when daily life has been upended to an unprecedented degree. In the process, we each gained experience implementing all stages of the human-centered design cycle, which reinforced our skills in our individual areas of expertise while sharpening our abilities outside our respective comfort zones. In particular, we gained a firmer knowledge of design tools such as Figma and learned how to adapt our deliverables to user feedback.
Challenges 💪
As expected, the biggest challenge we faced throughout the project was staying coordinated as a team while working remotely. It was also surprisingly difficult anticipating which stages of the project would demand the most time and effort relative to the others. If we had control over the timeline of the project, we would definitely allocate more space toward refining the high-fidelity prototype.
For Next Time 🤔
If presented with the chance to do things differently, we would certainly devote more time to engineering the finer interaction details of the high-fidelity prototype, particularly when it comes to the routine editor workflow. We could not dive as deeply into these interaction mechanics due to time constraints; therefore, we would consolidate some of the early deliverables (particularly the personas, storyboards, and user journey maps) to make more time for refining the prototype. As a team, we would also delegate tasks more strictly in order to get a clearer sense of the scope and time commitment of each deliverable. Nonetheless, we are proud of how our product turned out, and believe we laid the groundwork for genuinely improving the lives of others while receiving plenty of educational benefits ourselves.
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Thank you for reading 👋