Sandbox Smart R2 Coffee Roaster ☕️

Sandbox Smart is a company that designs and manufactures coffee roasters. My responsibilities include creating content for the Kickstarter page, responding to FAQs, managing Facebook posts, communicate with our in-house graphic designer, and identifying user ambassadors through Reddit and collaborating closely with them.

PROJECT NAME

Focus Areas

crowdfunding | consulting | marketing

year

2022

Role
User research, interview and UIUX Design.

Team
Akah Fu, Adeline Li, Ashlyn Luo, Cecilia Lu and Yubo Fan.

Tools
Figma, Google Docs and Google Slides.

Scope
UI/UX, Wire framing, Prototyping, Personas and User Testing.

Duration
Jan. 2024 - Mar. 2024 (3 months)

Overview

Azi is an innovative AI-powered time management tool tailored for the fast-paced lifestyle of today's university students. With Azi, juggling academic responsibilities, campus engagements, and career preparations is simpler than ever before!

Azi serves as the ultimate time management companion for college students. Leveraging users' Canvas data, Azi streamlines schedules, prioritizes tasks, and provides personalized study plans. This ensures students can effectively balance academic commitments, personal goals, and recreational pursuits, thereby enhancing their university experience.

Let's delve deeper into our intelligent AI time management assistant: Azi!

The Probelm

"I am so stressed by my overloaded schedule..."
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University students often find it challenging to juggle a packed schedule of classes, homework, extracurricular activities and job searches. The manual task of scheduling and rescheduling, alongside the challenge of prioritizing tasks without neglecting personal time, can result in stress and inefficiency.

How can we help university students manage their schedules effectively?

Solution

Azi, an AI-powered scheduling app designed to transform university students' time management. By automating goal organization and optimizing time allocation, Azi customizes planning to fit individual lifestyles and priorities, easing the stress of time management. It streamlines academic and personal commitments, fostering a balanced, productive college experience. Azi is your AI-powered personal scheduling ally, unlocking the full potential of your university years.
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Product Highlights

Seamlessly Syncing Canvas Data & Easy Onboarding

Azi's fast log-in that connects to the student's university Canvas allows Azi to import the schedule and courses more efficiently and conveniently, helping Azi understand the student's daily routines. Also, once logged in, Azi will automatically initiate a tutorial to help students quickly learn how to use audio to create events.

Azi also offers a step-by-step onboarding tutorial, guiding students to effortlessly create his first personal schedule.

Resolving Conflicts

When there's an unexpected event a student wants to add, Azi can assist in rescheduling and also help in quickly creating a new schedule by providing different time slots for the student to choose from. Since Azi is intelligent, it can also predict the locations students are heading to based on their schedules.

Personal Time Protection & Heat Map

With a busy schedule and a desire for quality personal time, users discover Azi's Period Protection feature. It scouts for available free slots in their agenda, assessing activities that can be rescheduled and proposing optimal times for them. This feature carves out uninterrupted periods for users to unwind, rest or spend time with family.

Azi employs a heat map in the Monthly View to visually display the intensity of each day's schedule. This helps users achieve a holistic oversight of their personal planning, ensuring balanced time management.

Meet the Users

To really understand our target users, we interviewed over 10 students to deepen our understanding of their needs and challenges. We created personas based on both undergraduate and graduate students. This helped us uncover their needs and prioritize features effectively.

Goals & Assignments Breakdown

Upon setting a goal, Azi can divide it into smaller and manageable tasks. It organizes these tasks based on the workload of the goal, current schedule and past work patterns. Users can swiftly adjust the workload and timing of these tasks using straightforward plus and minus icons.

Additionally, for assignments imported from systems like Canvas, Azi can break them down to help users complete them efficiently.

Scenarios, Steps & Stages

We outlined multiple situations in which our users may need to communicate with Azi. Based on these situations, we defined every action a user may take to reach goals, including 'Resolving Conflicted Plans' and 'Setting & Editing Goals.' We then divided comparable steps into stages, each with a distinct name.

For each step, we brainstormed potential features to meet the user's needs and held a vote to determine the most successful suggestions.

User Journey Map

We chose Jack as our user journey model, representing the typical student who frequently checks their phone for schedules, messages, and meetings.
Azi is designed to be your all-in-one assistant for these tasks.

Information Architecture

Wireframe

Future Outlook

In the future, Azi plans to become indispensable for university students globally. Initially focusing on refining algorithms and integrating with systems like Canvas, we aim to expand to colleges across the US, offering workshops and new features such as mental health tracking.

Our goal is to establish Azi as a global standard, adapting to diverse educational needs and enhancing student life worldwide through continuous innovation and strategic partnerships.

Retrospective

More to explore!
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This journey has been incredible, and we've dedicated considerable effort to perfect the presentation of our three core concepts. Our goal is for our users to manage their time effortlessly and efficiently. We hope that by utilizing Azi, users can develop solid time management habits that will benefit them long after they've graduated from college.

The intuitive and organized nature of Azi's calendar, are designed to help students navigate their busy schedules with ease, ensuring they can make the most of their academic and personal lives. Here's to building a future where time management becomes a cornerstone of success, both in and out of college!