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Earth Hero IA Redesign

Sprint DEMO 8 : Feb 3, 2023

FINAL DEMO PRESENTATION

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Introducing Earth Hero Mobile App

Earth Hero provide tools and ideas to empower all who want to reduce emissions, improve lives and care for our shared planet.

We believe a billion compassionate activists can restore healthy Earth where life can thrive. Therefore, we are motivated to inspire people and their communities to join the global climate movement. We help people to effectively respond to climate emergencies while strengthening their resilience and quality of life.

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Problem Statement

The Earth Hero app's main navigation information architecture could be better organized and structured. It is an opportunity to increase user engagement and retention rate, especially for new users, since it currently sits at 46%.

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Project Scope

Restructure the main navigation tabs and pages within the Earth Hero Mobile application to ensure an intuitive user flow and corresponds with UI standard mental models.

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Project Road Map

  • Refine Scope
  • Persona
  • Map the IA
  • Content Inventory
  • User Stories
  • IA Tree, Card Sort, Recruitment
  • Comp Analysis
  • Content

Inventory

  • Refine User Stories
  • Card Sort
  • Sketching and Ideating
  • Content Inventory
  • Backlog grooming & roadmap
  • Firebase Web Analytics
  • Wireframe Ideation
  • Card Sort Language Improvement

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

  • User Flows & Backlog grooming
  • Usability Test Prep
  • Prototype Mid-Fi & New Components
  • Card Sort Language Improvement

  • User Flows for Testing & Design
  • Usability Testing
  • Content Adjustment
  • Content Repository
  • Usability Testing Synthesis
  • Refining final wireframes to hand off
  • Create Final Repository for EH mobile app

  • PRD
  • Research Hand-off
  • Final wireframes to hand off
  • Final Repository for EH mobile app

Sprint 5

Sprint 6

Sprint 7

Sprint 8

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User Stories & Flows- Emissions

Figma here

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Site map

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  • Project Scope here
  • Figma here
  • Summary Doc here

Strategy Hand-off Documents

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Q&A

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Research

  • Usability Testing Reports and Hand-off Docs

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User Research Report

Author: Wanbing, Alaisha, Shunit, Anna, Steve

Date: 01/03/2023

Confidentiality Notice: This document is a confidential document. Please be aware that disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this document and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited.

Earth Hero Mobile App Phase 2

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  1. Executive Summary
  2. Goals
  3. Methodology
  4. Participant Profiles
  5. Tasks Tested
  6. Results tasks
  7. Potential Opportunities
  8. Disclaimer
  9. Appendix

Table of contents

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  1. 60% of the participants rated the tasks as easy (> 4.0) overall.
  2. 3 out of 8 of the tasks are rated as easy (> 4.0) by all participants.
  3. “Check ongoing goals” and “Mark as Achieved” are the hardest tasks.
  4. Participants liked the layout of Home page, despite minor comments on the meaning of a few modules and adjustments on fonts and colors. Users are attracted by the four shortcuts (6 / 10 users) and "Action of the Day" (5 /10 users).
  5. Most participants can successfully perform the tasks related to Actions, with some comments about making “My Actions” the landing page of Actions.
  6. Most participants found the Relative Emission and the Emission Per Category graphs the most valuable. Participants noted that the data of the pie chart is the same as the “you” bar, but appreciate the pie chart as granular view of areas to pay attention to (4 / 10 users).

Key Highlights

10 users in total, 5 new, 5 old, 8 tasks

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Goals

Evaluate the success of the new design

Reveal

friction

points in key features

To assess which part of the new AI is successful and which not

Identify parts in the new page structure and design elements work and what doesn‘t work

To be able to prioritize action items

Test the

new IA

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Methodology:

  • Screened participants using an EH mobile app notification
  • Connected with participants through Tech Fleet Slack channel
  • Conducted the moderated tests online/remotely

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Our pool of 10 testers consisted of:

  • 5 new users
  • 5 existing users

Participants were:

  • Aged 18-64 years old
  • 70% female

Of the 5 existing users:

  • 3 have been using app for 1 to 6 months
  • 2 have been using app for 7 months to a year

Frequency of use varied weekly, every few months, to a few times per year.�

Specifically, our testers identified as follows.

P5

  • 18-24
  • Female

Participant Profiles

P21

  • 25-34
  • Female

P25

  • 35-44
  • Male

P24

  • 45-54
  • Female

P22

  • 35-44
  • Female

P12

  • 45-54
  • Female
  • 7 months - 1 year

P10

  • 55-64
  • Female
  • 1-6 months

P9

  • 18-24
  • Male
  • 1-6 months

P16

  • 35-44
  • Female
  • 1-6 months

P23

  • 35-44
  • Male
  • 7 months - 1 year

New User

Existing User

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Results & Recommendations

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Summary of Tasks Tested

TASK 0: Home page overview. What are your first impressions?

TASK 1: Check settings: Please show me where you would find the account setting.

TASK 2: Browse actions and find specific action.

TASK 3: Save an action: Please show me how you would save a specific action.

TASK 4: Check saved action: do you know where to see all your saved actions?

TASK 5: Add action to goals: Please show me how to add action to your goal and set a reminder.

TASK 6: Check your ongoing goals and mark action as achieved.

TASK 7: Update Emissions: Can you show me where you would update your emissions?

TASK 8: Interpret the graphs Relative Emission Graph / Emission Overtime / Emission Pie chart

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Task 0 - Home Page overview

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

Users were unable to read yellow tags on cards, not consistent with accessibility standard

Changed tag position and color

A lot of information and text. There is no context for new users. Users didn't see clear CTA and were not sure what to engage first.

Prioritize what should be the focal point on the homepage. Make it stand out in compare to other elements and reduce visual load.

Make tutorials for new users introducing where to find stuff.

“I am attracted by the four buttons under ‘What’s your impact today’ (6 users) and Action of the day (5 users)

“A lot of information, a lot of text and functions. Seems technical and complex.. my brain says 'no! do I want to read all that?

Where would you click first? What are your first impressions?

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

Task 1 - Check Account Settings

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

Weren't sure if they should click on the gear icon or the profile picture to find account setting

Keep only one of them

3.9

“Account Setting is very easy to find.”

“It was tricky because I wasn‘t sure whether I‘d find setting when clicking on the profile picture/name in the middle/the gear”.

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

TASK 2: Browse actions and find the action “Wash clothes on cold cycle”

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

“My Actions” was expected to be on the default page of “Actions” (instead of “Browse Actions”)

Make "My actions" the default tab (rather than "Browse actions") when entering "Action" screen from navigation

Make the back/exiting button more obvious on action cards

Moving the back arrow to the profile picture place and make it bigger

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"In the action page, I would expect the default page to be my actions."

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

TASK 3: Save an action

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

The difference between “Actions in Progress” and “Saved Actions” is unclear.

Problem in the naming "action in progress"- recommend to keep consistent line with the wording "goal".

After saving, there is no indication where to go or access it later.

Would like to see some sort of notification that indicates where to go for later.

3.7

"I am not sure what the difference between add to goals and save is. They seemed the same"

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

TASK 4: Check saved action

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

User expected to find save actions under the profile picture/settings, not under “My Actions” as there are more personal and specific to the user.

EH team can decide to include “saved actions” under profile or settings.

3.8

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

TASK 5: Add an action to my goals

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

Cognitive overload - Prototype modified Reminder timing section, not in current app

Place sub-text close to each header section

Current app: place subtext closer to each section header to promote flow and readability

“Great! Goal Added” does not stand out well, not as bold as current app

Same as above

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“The Goal Added Confirmation screen has too much text/information.”

“Don‘t like to be transitioned to another screen.”�“Goal Added Confirmation screen is confusing as there is not confirmation that a goal was added.”

Prototype

Current app

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

TASK 6: Check your ongoing goals and mark as achieved

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

none

3.6

“Easy to tell action is completed”

“ Likes better in the current app vs. the prototype: viewing actions completed and emissions saved in Homepage.”

“Some kind of animation would be nice"

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Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

Expected icons and graph sections to be clickable to reveal more info/options and update emissions.

Adding styled links to the bar graph itself.

Users were unclear about what the dotted line represent

Meaning of dotted line needs to be clarified(e.g. Label, info icon, etc.)

Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

4.3

The user would expect to click on the icons or graph to update his emissions.

Task 7 - Update Emissions

User find it positive to have less information in current emission screen.

Can you show me where you would update your emissions?

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Ease of use

☹️ 1 <—> 5 😃 :

Errors

Iteration Update

Future Recommendations

Had trouble discovering additional graphs through horizontal swipe.

Add additional clues to indicate horizontal swipe option.

"Emissions over time" graph is found to be confusing and unrealistic.

Omit "Emissions over time" graph from the final wireframes.

Keep current version while ideating a new ways to track progress.

The name "Gifts" for category that represents spending for consumer good is confusing.

Review the category: spending for consumer good propose and suggest more suitable name description.

Colors are not complying with accessibility standards.

Review color styles to address accessibility issues.

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"As someone who does not know much about EH [the emissions pie chart is visually very interesting."

"I didn't notice right away there is an option to switch to more screens."

Task 8: Interpret the graphs

Relative Emission Graph / Emission Overtime / Emission Pie chart

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Additional Observations & Recommendations

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Based on findings and insights during our project period and what was left out of scope, we noticed these were often pain points for users.

Potential Opportunities

  • Idea of app to implement a Habit Tracker functionality (Noted by 3 participants)
  • Microinteractions on Goal achieved (pop-up congrats window, etc.)

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  1. Tested remotely on participants’ computer as opposed to phone/in person
  2. Prototype related issues intervene with some tasks flows
  3. User recruitment - new users and existing EH mobile app users
  4. User recruitment - UX designers (from “new user” category) and testers close surroundings

Disclaimer

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Appendix

Media

Documentation

Upon request to respect participants privacy. Contact Wanbing Zhang for details.

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Q&A

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  • Research Final Handoff Deck
    • Persona
    • Card Sort
    • Preference test

Research-handoff Documents

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Writing

  • UX Writing Handoff
    • Style Guide
    • Tech Fleet EH Phase 2 Writing Guidelines
  • Writing Handoff Findings
  • Content Inventory
  • Figma Handoff Final Copy

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UX Writing Handoff: Style Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H1ReNCDxO8q9v0WENhPZSF567bQdGeXzqKzzGJdFf4Y/edit?usp=sharing

Supplemental to the EH Language Guide

The style guide focuses more on the microcopy of the app, and is to be added to the EH Language Guide

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UX Writing Handoff: Tech Fleet Phase 2 EH UX Writing Guidelines

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OgiJYZu8Q-KU1Q7z4QzxGgVqDRko4_lAXq0Og4_R5eg/edit?usp=sharing

  • An action item checklist summarizing the copy changes that need to be carried forward under this IA redesign
    • Where to carry title capitalization
    • Where to carry sentence capitalization
    • Remove full capitalization
    • No period usage unless writing more than one sentence

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Writing Handoff Findings

Issues that Writing has found some issues that couldn’t be addressed this phase:

  • Goals on the action page; Future Actions redesign?
  • Progressive type actions vs One off actions; Future Actions redesign?
  • EH rank names suggested revision; Future ranking redesign?

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Content Inventory

New sheet in the Content Inventory containing a Country Demonym Spot Check some minor issues

  • Croat to Croatian
  • Myanmarese to Burmese (more casually used by the people there)
  • Surinamer to Surinamese

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KvBdbNo5jKxmp4iLDeNCRsSaCWAbfoVS/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106123562707554427046&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Figma Handoff Final Copy

Reviewed the copy of the Design Figma Handoff to reflect the new writing changes

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  • Style Guide here
  • EH Phase 2 Writing Writing Guidelines here
  • EH Phase 2 Writing Content Inventory here
  • Updated EH Language Guide here

Writing-handoff Documents

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Q&A

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Design - Handoff documents

Earth Hero Final Design File

  • Competitive Analysis
  • Components
  • Final Hi-Fidelity Screens and Annotations

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Homepage + Settings

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Actions + Filter/Sort Overlay

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Actions

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Actions

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Emissions

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Design Up Next

  • Phase 2 of further IA
  • Gamification

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Q&A

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Final Q&A

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