A collage of multiple smartphone screens displaying various app dashboards, schedules, assignments, and notifications related to student activities, classes, and task management.

Swiftly

Atlanta, GA

2023

Direction: Professor Holly Quarzo

UX Research and Interface Design: Aditya Kumar

Swiftly has a nurturing appraoch towards managing a college student’s demanding workload while taking care of one’s personal life commmitments and goals. It intuitively adjusts academic schedules by understanding assignment priorities, assignment load and personal life needs.

A hand holding a smartphone displaying a timer app on a black screen with blue accents, showing 2 minutes and 12 seconds remaining, with control buttons for adding time, pausing, and exiting.
Five smartphones showing different app screens: goal setting app, focus mode app, community app, communication app, and timer app.

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Swiftly UX Research and Design: Addressing Pain Points with Design Solutions

Title slide of a mobile app design plan presentation for Swifty, with a logo of five overlapping circles in blue, red, yellow, and green. The slide includes credits for the visual design plan by Aditya Kumar, interface design by Professor Holly Quarz
Slide titled 'App Goal' with a paragraph describing Swiftly's approach to managing college students' workload and personal life through an app, emphasizing self-care, proactive communication, and a harmonious college experience.
A visual design plan for a mobile app titled "Pain Points" featuring four stylized, colorful icons representing emotional and mental struggles, each accompanied by a description and personal quote about managing workload and stress.
Slide titled 'Brag Points' with four colorful flower-shaped icons representing different features of a mobile app, with detailed descriptions underneath.
Text describing a visual design plan for a mobile app, including flow, pain point, brag point, and summary.
Series of five smartphone screens showing the Swiftly app. The first screen displays the iOS home screen with app icons, including the Swiftly app. The second screen shows the Swiftly splash screen with the logo. The third screen displays the Swiftly
Screenshots of a mobile app onboarding process showing multiple screens. The first screen displays the app's name, 'Center for good health,' with a description about health and guidance. The second screen asks 'Are you a student?' with options, and t
Series of screenshots demonstrating the login process for a university portal app, including selecting a university, logging in with username and password, and two-factor authentication.
Series of five smartphone screens showing a user onboarding and course confirmation process within a mobile app, including identity verification, course selection, and goal setting.
Screenshots of a mobile app interface for setting smart goals, showing options to select current or future plans with various goal categories, such as participating in community service and maintaining a high GPA, with different options selected acro
Screenshots of iPhone app permissions prompts, showing user granting access to Calendar, Mail, Microphone, and microphone, with explanations for each.
Five iPhones display prompts by iOS for app permissions and user preferences. The first three are permission requests for notifications, Siri access, and health data, each with options to Allow or Deny. The last two screens show a questionnaire askin
Screenshots of a mobile app dashboard showing upcoming events and tasks, a user inputting a voice event, and responding to the event with voice commands.
Screenshots of a mobile app in five steps demonstrating email composition and sending. The first screen shows a voice message and option to agree to a note. The second shows prompt for email generation to a professor. The third displays a draft email
Text explaining a visual solution inspired by Brag Point 3 for Pain Point 3, emphasizing task prioritization, deadline proximity, and difficulty levels, with a summary of user workflow in a mobile app
Four mobile screens showing a daily schedule app. The first screen displays a morning briefing with events and a focus on architecture assignment at 4 pm. The second screen shows a detailed view of the day's schedule, including classes, a report, lun
Text explaining visual solutions inspired by Brag Point 3 for Pain Point 3, including focus modes to help reduce digital distractions and analyze assignments, with a flow summary about the user's focus on architecture assignments.
Screenshots of a mobile app showing architecture assignment details, focus mode welcome screen, timer interface, task completion prompt, and calendar reschedule screen.
Mobile app screen showing a green checkmark icon with the message "Rescheduled successfully!" and a blue button labeled "Go to dashboard."
Text from a presentation slide explaining Flow 4, Pain Point 4, Brag Point 4, and Flow summary related to a health and fitness app.
Series of mobile app screens demonstrating dashboard updates, activity task tracking, health monitoring, and trending features with a black background.
A mobile app screen showing a list of communities with trending topics, including food, fitness, and forums, with options to add items to a dashboard. The screen indicates an action of adding an event to the dashboard with a confirmation message and
Color palette with primary colors: navy blue, soft teal, warm gray, muted coral, goldenrod and secondary colors: purple, light blue, pink.
Visual design plan for a mobile app showcasing color palette usage. The left side features color swatches labeled Navy Blue with hex code 00579E, connected to a screen displaying a form asking if the user is a student, with options to select 'I am a
A mobile app design with a black background showing a dashboard screen. The screen displays today's schedule with color-coded events: a teal circle for a 11 AM advertising class, a yellow circle for a 2 PM lunch, each labeled with their respective co
A mobile app screen showing an architecture assignment, with a pink color palette named Muted Coral and a gray shade named Warm Gray, indicated by color labels connected to the screen.
Mobile app screen displaying health activity and meal suggestions, with a color palette box showing a light blue color code 7DC5FF.
A mobile app interface displaying a dashboard with a greeting, schedule, and activity tracker. The schedule includes events at 11 AM, 4 PM, 5 PM, and 9 PM. The activity section uses a color palette with purple, yellow, and blue. The bottom navigation
A typography style guide showing the font names Montserrat and New York with sample uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.
Mockup of a mobile app dashboard with various sections and labels describing typography usage, color, and layout elements.
Mobile app design screen showing a question about how often to reach out, with three options: once a day, few times a day, and all the time. The 'Few times a day' option is highlighted as recommended. The screen features heading 'How often would you
Three screenshots of an iPhone home screen, showing app icons, a notification about updates, and Siri suggestions for ChatGPT.
Two screenshot images showing app icon searches on a smartphone. The first screenshot displays a spotlight search with icons for Swiftly, Snapchat, Speedtest, Safari, Settings, and Starbucks. The second screenshot shows the Settings menu with icons f
Illustration of a girl with brown curly hair studying at a desk, resting her head on one hand, surrounded by a mug and a container, with a book open in front of her.
Illustration of gradient shapes like flowers, diamonds, and hearts, representing feelings behind solutions, with three smartphones displaying app screens about organization, prioritization, and focus.
Slide showing gradient backgrounds and mobile app onboarding screens for a university app. The left side features two blurred gradient images. The right side displays two phone screens: the first for signing into a university account with options for
Digital design plan showing the brand elements of navy blue in a mobile app interface. The plan highlights three features: task input headings are always navy blue, swift responses are always navy blue, and the listening interface is always blue, wit
Two mobile phone screens showing app interface tips on brand elements, focusing on navy blue. The first screen displays a selected navy blue search field labeled 'SCAD Atlanta' with a verified check, and the second screen shows checkboxes with navy b
A visual design plan for a mobile app showcasing three screenshots of the app's interface. The first screenshot displays a dashboard with a greeting and scheduled activities listed by time, with a grid overlay. The second screenshot shows a communiti
Screenshots of an app showing instances of spacing between items, with notes explaining each item's breathing room above and below it in pixels.
A guide showing different types of active buttons for mobile app design, including small primary, rounded primary, default primary, small secondary, rounded secondary, default primary with chevron, default secondary with chevron, and circular symbol
Design plan for mobile app showing various button styles: primary with chevron, rounded primary, default primary, secondary, and circle buttons, each with descriptions.
A digital design plan for a mobile app, featuring sections on checkboxes with different states, a circular progress bar, a scheduler, a progress bar, a player interface, tabs, and tags, all set against a black background with white and gray text and
A visual design plan for a mobile app showing different types of cards. The first card is red with a title 'Architecture Assignment' and has content about an essay, with labels 'Easy' and 'Due in 2 days'. The second card is blue titled 'GRDS Assignme
A screenshot of a mobile app's visual content dashboard, showing icons labeled Suggestions, Timer, Trending, Walk, Add/Input, Microphone, Done, Pause, and Stop on a black background.
Comparison of mobile app screens showing a user survey question 'Are you a student?' with multiple choice options, highlighting enabled and disabled button styles.
A presentation slide showing an iPhone screen displaying a mobile app with a list of courses and an 'Enabled' toggle for a secondary button at the bottom.
A mobile app screen showing a countdown timer with a circular progress bar, a play button, pause and stop icons, and a noise control toggle at the top, all labeled with descriptions of their functions.
A digital presentation slide showing three smartphone screens with an app interface. The first screen displays a dashboard with a greeting, scheduled classes, and activity progress. The second screen shows content that is being curated, with a loadin
A mobile app screen showing a goal-setting interface with light mode active tabs, checkboxes indicating selected options, and a 'Next' button at the bottom.
Visual content examples showing mobile app screens for tags, cards, schedules, and icons. The images display a dashboard with scheduled tasks like architecture assignment, GRDS assignment, dinner suggestions, each with content, due dates, and icons f
Slide showing example screens of a mobile app. The left screen displays a dashboard with a greeting, warning, scheduled activities, suggestions, and a bottom navigation bar with icons for Dashboard, Courses, Communities, and Settings. The right scree
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