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 that their suite situation begins to unravel within the first week of the semester.
Trash quickly accumulates, the floors are overdue for sweeping, toilet paper mysteriously disappears, and the fridge sits nearly empty. One roommate’s boyfriend shows up—again—without any heads-up, while tensions rise as someone tries to sleep or study over the sound of another blasting 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 ability 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 include:
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
