Making chore management easier

01. Introduction

In this project, I was challenged to create an app to solve a fictitious problem related to the management of day-to-day chores between parents and children. At the beginning of the piece, I provide an in-depth description of the proposition, but I would like to highlight that this was an amazing project in which I fully leveraged AI capabilities to accelerate my processes. For example, the research process that could have taken quite a while to figure out was greatly simplified through deep discussions with the GPT model, which generated different scenarios for me to consider and illustrate possible outcomes and solutions.

02. The challenge

Summary

You were just hired by Company X to design a mobile product experience that makes it easy for parents and their children to track household chores. Design the experience from the perspective of the parent and the children.

Pain Points

Parents

Regularly complain that household chores aren’t completed on time
Don’t know which chores have been started, and which haven’t
Get frustrated when their children forget regularly-repeating chores

Children

Don’t know when their parent expects the chore to be completed by
Often finish a chore, only to be told by their parents that another chore was more important
Don’t have an easy way to tell their parents they’ve started or finished a chore

Task

We’re looking for you to recommend flows that address the pain points for parents and children. We expect to see a user flow or information architecture that represents the UX, some lo-fidelity designs/sketches, and some hi-fidelity designs with a consistent visual identity.

The App

Tracker

Object: Chores
Time-frame: Chore completion, guardians give the task’s end date
Users: Guardians and kids
Problem to be solved: Inability to keep track of current task progression, as well as create incentives for the children to follow up with tasks
Proof mechanism: Tasks that require further proof for the parents to consider done will have an area for the children to provide the specific proof
Possible edge-cases:

Overdue tasks
Accidental task completion
Multiple guardians managing tasks

Give visibility to guardians on children’s progress

Create new chores
Chore progression:

Overdue tasks
Which chores are open to be done
Which chores were already done

Assist children in completing their tasks

Task priority
Task completion component
Notifications
Reward system

03. The user journey

Two complementary experiences, each tailored for each user type, and how they will interact with the app.

The Guardian’s app includes many tools for creating and managing tasks. It's easy to follow the progress for separated kids and create and manage different types of reward systems for each kid in the household.

The Guardian app also has a complete dashboard on the home page, allowing a quick check-in on progress daily.

For the kids' app, the focus is on giving them easy-to-use tools to organize their tasks, track their progress, and see how completing them affects the rewards they can earn.