Suite Spot
Designed to encourage harmonious living, Suite Spot is an app that allows suitemates to communicate about tasks for them home including cleaning, grocery, and scheduling needs as well as suitemate statuses.
Prototyped in Figma, Implemented in Code
Problem
Many college students find their suite situation deteriorate within the first week of the semester.
Trash piles up, the floors need sweeping, toilet paper is missing, the fridge needs restocking, someone’s boyfriend came over again without anyone being informed, and someone keeps yelling that they’re trying to sleep or study while someone else blasts music.
Research & Design Process
Conducted contextual inquires & affinity diagrammed to understand nuances of design problem & develop a clear design solution
Storyboarded to demonstrate design solutions
Prototyped low-fidelity mockups in Balsamiq
Smoke-and-mirrors prototyped to work with time-incurred implementation constraints early on in the process
Prototyped fidelity 1:1 wireframes in Figma
Implemented code in HTML, CSS, JS & Jquery
Ran app using React & Flask
Solution
Suite Spot was created to eliminate the issue of suitemate conflict by clearly outlining suite tasks, logging the scheduling of suite space and important dates, and allowing users to express the status of their emotions and needs in a way that minimizes embarrassment and miscommunication.
Key features include the ablity to:
Assign tasks to other suitemates
Keep track of your own tasks for the suite
See the emotional and physical status of your suitemate
Whether they’re feeling sick/depressed/happy/irritable
Whether they’re asleep/away/studying/cooking
Mark important dates
Secondary features:
Room status updates
Make requests of suitemates
Check the notifications of these features
Preference changes in Settings
Balsamiq Wireframes
The precursor to the Figma mockups & the culmination of storyboarding, sketching, and affinity diagramming that preceded
