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.
Overview
Suite Spot is a mobile app designed to reduce conflict among college suitemates by making shared responsibilities visible and communication clearer. As the UX Designer, I led research, prototyping, and front-end implementation.
Challenge
College students often struggle to coordinate suite life:
Tasks like cleaning and restocking are neglected.
Guests visit without notice, increasing tension.
Communication about needs happens too late, causing conflict.
Process
Research: Conducted contextual inquiries and affinity diagramming to map suite dynamics.
Design: Storyboarded pain points, prototyped in Balsamiq → Figma → high-fidelity.
Testing: Iterated prototypes with peers, refining task flows and communication features.
Implementation: Built front-end in React with a Flask backend.
Solution
Suite Spot provides:
Task assignment and tracking.
Status sharing (emotional/physical, e.g., “studying,” “happy,” “sick”).
Important date logging.
Secondary features like suitemate requests.
Impact
These features minimize the opportunity for misunderstandings, embarrassment, and conflict between suitemates.
Balsamiq Wireframes
The precursor to the Figma mockups & the culmination of storyboarding, sketching, and affinity diagramming that preceded
