VR Design Collaboration
Help VR users document, assign, or tack design feedback
Improving concentration levels by implementing non-stressed features
Statement
Design Collaboration and Management VR tool aims to create a collaborative platform for design professionals and product managers to create, manage, and resolve design issues in an immersive space, stopping time waste and budget loss in a long remaking process.
Existing Problem
There is no tool to document, assign, or track design feedback.
AR/VR design collaboration and management require a more robust form of communication and documentation. Project managers require a tool where it is possible to create, manage, and resolve design issues.
Key Accomplishment
Started the collaboration VR tool
With a background in both Design Engineering and UX Research and Design we wanted to take a route that would benefit both our industries.
My deliverables in this project
Develop assets
Interaction Flow
UI Design
Process & Challenges
Research
Goal
Create a design collaboration tool in the VR environment
Constraints
If designers can flag and signal parts, then they can avoid wasting budget and time remaking a design.
The current experience includes co-existence in a dedicated virtual room, with voice chat. All drawing tools of shapes, surfaces, and text are available to use. There are no design documentation tools on the market that help to view all noted elements on a 3D VR interface/model in a hierarchical-role fashion.
Context
The collaboration offers a common virtual design environment. Design collaboration and management requires a more robust form of communication and documentation
Domain
The domain of this project lies in the collaboration space. The users are design professionals who create, edit, and collaborate in Virtual Reality
Competitive Analysis
Essential functions
Document Feedback
Manage design steps
Visualize points of interest in design
When feedback is received in the design stage, there must be a way to document it with a title, and describe its nature.
Once recorded, there must be ways to assign tasks, set goals, and finally consolidate all tasks in an easily reviewable format.
Google Forms
Users easily end up disappointed with focus applications
12 interviewees
The majority of users cease using it after giving it a try
Design
1st
Based on the previous design principles, starting to make designs
1
Interaction Flow
Detailed sitemap with lo-fi prototypes
2
Prototypes
Detailed sitemap with lo-fi prototypes
Homepage: minimalism design style
Planning Page: a place for users to plan their tasks first
Pain Points
For current solutions
1
Contradiction
Focus applications require users to put phones away while our goal is to keep users stay on the app
2
Hard to keep users stay
If users have not established trust in the app, they may leave the page and never go back
3
Challenging to establish trustworthiness
From the previous summary, users lack trust in the Focus app's ability to assist them
Research
2nd
Goal
What makes users focus along with anxiety? How users manage their anxiety while focusing?
Method 04
Contextual Inquiry
Concentration ties to anxiety
These four points tied to the difficulty of concentration
4 Questions Raised:
how to solve anxiety?
how to help users control their lives?
how to increase self-evaluation?
how to improve confidence?
Method 05
Surveys and Questionnaires
Goal
Finding more users to test their experience in concentration
Knowing their thoughts on the relation between concentration and anxiety
Plan
Quantitative survey over 20 users
Method & Tool
Testing and knowing the information through behavioral and attitude questions
Sending out surveys through Google Form
Define & Design
2nd
Based on the previous design principles, starting to make designs
1
"HMW" Ideation
Question: How might we make users feel less anxious while concentrating?
Ideation stage with 4 other designers
2
Design Change
hi-fi prototypes
Designers' Veiw
Simple information but focus on Planning
This design offers straightforward information with a minimalist design style, while still emphasizing the Planning system to encourage users to reflect on their focus time independently.
Provide stress level monitor feature
Create user-centered clean and organized design
Organized user interface elements
PMs' View
The right amount of information on each page
Placing the planning within the setting page reduces the task space and avoids highlighting it to prevent escalating users' stress levels.
Provide stress level monitor feature
Create user-centered clean and organized design
Organized user interface elements
Choose the role
Click in the clock page by clicking the clock button, see the details for start a focusing time.
Design Issue Dashboard
Click in the clock page by clicking the clock button, see the details for start a focusing time.
Impact & Results
Based on the previous design principles, starting to make designs
Take Away
Conducting qualitative research precedes any design process
Without undertaking two research studies on our social issue, discerning the correlation between concentration and anxiety is impossible
It becomes imperative and crucial to determine the precise direction before initiating the design process
Turn into actionable insights
As a UX researcher/designer, I have to bear the bad news. In this particular case, the design solutions don't seem to be working effectively to address the issue at hand. I am aware that this issue is a significant problem globally. However, it is crucial to keep the communication lines open for further constructive dialogue and to engage a team to achieve better results.
Increasing trust from users
Add a team
We are planning to include more collaborators in our team, including designers and modelers.
Physical Models
We plan to create a physical clock that aligns with the app to help users concentrate better.
New main goal of app
Promoting user involvement in the physical setting
Quick Summary
My Role
I started this study in concentration, created qualitative surveys by Google Form, FigJam and Miro.
Used Figma to analyze data and implement design solutions.
Impact
My findings confirmed the approach taken to address the issue of concentration in society.
My design solutions increased user retention on the homepage.
Next Step
I've reached out to another engineer and UX designer to work on a physical clock model to support the application's focus by creating a physical and realistic tool.
Repeat the same manual process for every client