Incuvers
Mobile Application
UX/UI Design
OVERVIEW
Project Brief
The company Incuvers is specialized in selling incubators for growing cell cultures in Biology Labs. These incubators provide capturing time-lapse videos of the experiments and monitoring their status remotely using the smartphone. As a part of the team, I elaborated an interactive prototype for the application controlling the cells growing incubator IRIS from the smartphone. IRIS lets to connect the smartphone to the incubator to see live cell’s imaging of the project while the worker is away from the lab. And workers can control the incubator’s conditions from the smartphone as well.
The Problem
The most challenging point was that the app needed to be simple and intuitive clear that the person can work with it by the left hand while he is writing or holding other equipment by his right hand.
The Solution
To check the functionality of the application, we used iPhone and Adobe XD app for user testing. After testing we did a few minor corrections, and the project was finished.
Team
I worked as a part of the cross-functional team. As the main UX/UI designer, I was involved in all phases of the project, from defining the problem to user testing.
Responsibilities
Research, Personas, Moodboards, Wireframes, Prototyping, Testing, Refining.
Define
Define the User
Understanding the user's goals and needs with User Research and creating Personas
My fist work stage is defining the user audience and creating personas. What are personas and why we need them? Personas are archetypical users whose goals and characteristics represent the needs of a larger group of users. Usually, a persona is presented in a one-page document. The description includes behavior patterns, goals, skills, attitudes, and background information, as well as the environment in which a persona operates. Using the type and direction of personas’ thinking, you can compose the alleged scenarios of their actions and understand how they would use this product.
Design
Moodboards
A picture is worth a thousand words
A mood board is extremely useful for establishing the aesthetic feel of a web site. It usually fits into the process somewhere after wireframes and before design mockups. Things that can be explored in the mood board include photography style, color palettes, typography, patterns, and the overall look and feel of the site. Soft or hard? Grungy or clean? Dark or light? A rough collage of colors, textures and pictures is all it takes to evoke a specific style or feeling. The mood board is intentionally casual; it lets the designer start with broad strokes and get feedback before too much time is invested in the wrong direction. Think of it as rapid visual prototyping.
Develop
Potential Solutions
Low-Fidelity Wireframes
The research made it evident how different users would use the app. After summarizing the information from user interviews and data analysis, It was time to sketching different solutions to help business and users.
Prototyping
Prototyping is the key element in User Experience Design. It helps to test the product before spending too much time and money on the development stage. It helps to correct in time the design and flow of the product.
Interactive Prototype
To check the functionality of the application, we used an iPhone XS and Adobe XD app for user testing. Adobe XD allows recording a video from the interactive prototype.
Deploy
Final Solutions
User Testing
Usability testing is a technique used in user-centered interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it on users. In other words, we test our product to see if it is intuitively simple, logical, visually clear, easy to understand. The testing of the prototype allows testing the elaborating product on the design stage before you spend too much time and effort in the wrong direction. So, user testing allows us to see our mistakes and correct them.
