LooSche was ideated at a family restaurant on August 2020. Even though digitalization is expanding to all kinds of stuffs, there are several things which have “paper-or-digital wars” such as magazines, albums, and schedule-notes. A friend in from of my seat at the restaurant was using a paper schedule-book, a question came up into my mind.
Is it possible to turn paper users to digital users?
As a kick start we start with comparing the paper schedule notes and popular schedule apps to define the gaps. As a result, we found two factors: flexibility and time costs.
Paper notes can be scripted any ways we want in seconds with a pen but apps don’t. In a nut shell, schedule apps lack of “loose-ability”. So, we decide our goal as,
Bring loose to our schedule app.
These three are the end-user image of LooSche.
To understand the problems which users are currently facing with LooSche3.30, I analyzed the reviews on AppStore. Then I conducted a usability studies to people who never used LooSche before to measure the user experiences of the app beginners.
After synthesized all data collected, I prioritized them into P0 and P1 to understand what users really need. Then, instead of creating specific personas I built abrupt target statues to clarify what and whom this update for.
Before create specific designs, I create 2 types of user storyboard. Then, based on the storyboards I listed up as many possible ideas to fix each problem.
With this update, Home Screen was the new designing, so I created possible 8 home screens first. Then, I combined each favorite parts and draw up a wireframe. After that, I created a simple design mockup using Figma.
Just before start developing, I create the simple information architecture related to the Home Screen to enhance my understanding of new systems. Also, I created a simple plan of how to process the development.
This is an iOS app, so I developed with Swift using Xcode. This is the screen shot of iPhone11’s storyboard on Xcode. There are totally 40 screen designs and 78 files.
Before submit the app to AppConnect, I created 6 splash screens for AppStore with using the screenshots of completed app.
To expand user experiences I added a widgets page where users can access to each functional pages. Also, guide screens have been introduced.
LooShe’s original tab-bar was just single alphabets, therefore to improve straightforwardness each alphabets are replaced to icons from Material Designs.
Before LooSche 4.0, the icons on registration were kind of messy. Therefore, I introduced similar design icons, so that users will be able to differentiate between each icons’ meaning easily.
