Sleep machine_live

Project Description

Sleep Machine is a professional ambient sound and white noise player that helps users sleep and relax by allowing them to mix sounds and play them together as a single track. App supports other features like alarms, digital theme clocks, sleep timers and more.

Platform: Windows mobile app

Duration: 2 months

Client: SleepSoft LLC

Team: 4 designers

My role: I closely worked with the UX lead to ideate and create final designs. Some of the major deliverables included interactive prototypes, documentation, some of the UI screens & specification sheets. I also collaborated with the client, development team and project managers to successfully ship the product.

Client brief

Using the universal Windows design guidelines, redesign and migrate the existing iOS Sleep Machine mobile application to Windows platform.

Process

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Current state analysis

We documented detailed evaluation of the current application’s architecture, interactions, navigation flow & UI and shared it with the client to discuss the areas of improvement.

Proto personas

To have a deeper understanding of the target audience and their behaviour, we created personas of users with unique needs, motivations and expectations from the app.

Competitive analysis

The ambient sound player space is a crowded one, so we conducted research on the top 4 iOS and Windows most relevant competitors.

Ideation

Keeping all the features and the use cases in mind, I worked on multiple ideas before finally landing on the final design.

Wireframes

After defining the IA, I created low fidelity wireframes using Balsamiq and then the high fidelity wireframes were created in Axure.

Interactive prototypes

I worked on interactive prototypes which were then used to discuss the new design of the app with the product manager, developers and the client.

Documentation

I documented each feature and flow within the app.

Specification sheets

During the project, I worked on designing visuals for some of the screens and worked on creating detailed specification sheets for the developers.

UX & UI Buglist

I worked on creating a UX/UI bug list document to ensure the correct implementation of the suggested UX & UI in the developed state.

Key features

Dashboard

Save composition

Other screens

Set timer

View compositions

Dashboard

Sound control

Alarms and timers

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What I learned

It was my first live project. During this project, I learned about the process of creating a complex app, along with hands-on experience with various design tools and processes.

I also learned to communicate with the client, within the team and also with other departments to effectively execute the project on time.