Scheduling App Draft Phase

Our app streamlines scheduling social events by synchronizing pre existing calendars and presenting times when all members are free.

Users/Persona:

Name: Drew

Age: 20

Occupation: Student

College Junior majoring in computer science. Recently assigned a group for a project in his software development class. All of the group members have a lot on their plate and finding a time to meet is often a lot of work and a frustrating process. 

Name: Naomi 

Age: 31

Occupation: Internet Journalist

Naomi has a busy group of friends who struggle to find a time to meet up. Work schedules and commute times make it difficult to find times that work for everyone. Extensive coordination attempts are frustrating for all parties involved.

Job to be done:

• Issue: People have a hard time scheduling in groups, even among friends. There are often too many schedules and preferences to efficiently plan, which can lead to frustration (or even worse, growing apart and not seeing friends)
• Question: How might we eliminate the frustrations of coordinating plans with multiple people?
• Solution: An app that integrates with google calendars, and allows people to pick their top free times within a date range, and then spits out a time that works for everyone (+ dynamically adds it to your google calendar).

Box and Whisker Diagram: https://www.figma.com/proto/CoIHPxC2N9Ujj79L0Xp4qE/Scheduling-App?node-id=1%3A4&scaling=scale-down

Reflection on process so far: So far I am enjoying this process a lot. My other group members are both engaged and easy to work with, and our prototype is coming along well so far. Creating the box and whisker plot seems to be a valuable step before going into prototyping – I have impatiently skipped this stage before and regretted it later.