Role
User research, interview and UIUX Design.
Overview
Azi is an innovative AI-powered time management tool tailored for the fast-paced lifestyle of today's university students. With Azi, juggling academic responsibilities, campus engagements, and career preparations is simpler than ever before!
Azi serves as the ultimate time management companion for college students. Leveraging users' Canvas data, Azi streamlines schedules, prioritizes tasks, and provides personalized study plans. This ensures students can effectively balance academic commitments, personal goals, and recreational pursuits, thereby enhancing their university experience.
Let's delve deeper into our intelligent AI time management assistant: Azi!
Team
Akah Fu, Adeline Li, Ashlyn Luo and Cecilia Lu.
Tools
Figma, Google Docs and Google Slides.
Scope
UI/UX, Wireframing, Prototyping, Personas and User Testing.
Duration
Jan. 2024 - Mar. 2024 (3 months)
Product Highlights✨
👉🏻 Add and Edit Event: Azi seamlessly integrates voice input or manual entry to add events to your schedule, ensuring all commitments are centralized.
👉🏻 Default Question: Azi streamlines event creation with default questions, simplifying input of details like time, location, and event type.
👉🏻 Solve Time Conflict: Azi helps resolve time conflicts by providing suggestions for rearranging events or adjusting schedules.
👉🏻 Smart Goal: Azi assists in breaking down goals into manageable tasks, offering guidance for efficient objective achievement.
👉🏻 Protect Personal Time: Azi suggests rearranging work time to prioritize dedicated personal time, fostering self-care and balance in your schedule.
Meet the Users👤
To really understand the target users, we created personas based on undergraduate and graduate students. This allows us to uncover their needs and prioritize features.
Considering Scenarios and Steps
To really understand the target users, we created personas based on undergraduate and graduate students. This allows us to uncover their needs and prioritize features.
User Journey Map
We chose Jack as our user journey model, representing the typical student who frequently checks their phone for schedules, messages, and meetings. Azi is designed to be your all-in-one assistant for these tasks.
Key Product Features
After finalizing user journey map, we set three main objectives: calendar management, personalized assistance, and goal setting. Azi is designed to be your go-to college companion, aiming to help students develop effective time management skills and balance their academic and personal lives.
Paper and Low-Fidelity Prototype
We began by iterating our ideas on the whiteboard, transitioning into wireframe design, and conducting preliminary usability testing on the low-fidelity prototype. This process involved gathering user feedback on accessibility, readability, and discoverability. Before moving onto this stage and developing high-fidelity mockups, We brainstormed potential UI designs to understand the Azi's layout and its core features better.
User Feedback
Based on feedback from an interviewee, we conducted user feedback on the homepage to identify the preferred option. The critique that "5 schedules sounds too vague, and I would like to know the specific goals and events" informed our modifications.
Based on feedback from an interviewee, we conducted user feedback on the homepage to identify the preferred option. The critique that "5 schedules sounds too vague, and I would like to know the specific goals and events" informed our modifications.
Before After
We found out that in the chatbox, when the profiles are shown on the same side, users seem to be more receptive to it.
Before After
In response to feedback from interviews, we aim to make our schedule display more intuitive. Notably, 90% of respondents expressed a desire to see the current time within the interface.
An interesting trend emerged: most interviewees from Asian regions preferred the 24-hour time format, whereas those from Western regions favored the 12-hour format. This insight has informed our strategy to approach to creating a more user-friendly display.
![]()
![]()
An interesting trend emerged: most interviewees from Asian regions preferred the 24-hour time format, whereas those from Western regions favored the 12-hour format. This insight has informed our strategy to approach to creating a more user-friendly display.
Before After
Recognizing that individuals have varied events, we opted to introduce event cards for users to categorize their schedules. From the interviews, we learned, "When Azi suggests moving events to preserve 'Me Time,' the event card is too small for easy clicking and moving." This insight is guiding our design enhancements for better usability.
Before After
High-Fidelity Prototype
Quick Sign-in to Canvas: The fast log-in that connects to the student's university Canvas allows Azi to import the schedule and courses more efficiently and conveniently, helping Azi understand the student's daily routines. Also, once logged in, Azi will automatically initiate a tutorial to help students quickly learn how to use audio to create events.
Schedule Conflict Solver: When there's an unexpected event a student wants to add, Azi can assist in rescheduling and also help in quickly creating a new schedule by providing different time slots for the student to choose from. Since Azi is intelligent, it can also predict the locations students are heading to based on their schedules.
Default Question: As for communicating with Azi, we designed default questions based on the interviews we conducted. Students often want to quickly know about a specific event, today's free slots, and quickly schedule an appointment. By clicking the default questions, students can quickly enter their requests to Azi, thereby saving more time!
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Easily Manage Personal Goals: To increase efficiency, Azi will incorporate assignments into 'Personal Goals.' Students can set their personal goals by specifying the name of the goal and the expected completion time. Azi can help students break down these goals into manageable steps. If there are any changes in timing? No worries—students can manually adjust the breakdown as they prefer.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Intuitive and Organized: Azi's calendar can be viewed in three ways: daily, weekly, and monthly. In the daily and weekly views, students can see the exact times on the calendar, allowing for a more intuitive display of time. In the monthly view, different shades of purple indicate 'how busy' the schedules are: light purple means the student has fewer commitments that day, whereas dark purple signifies a tightly packed schedule.
Moreover, there's a feature designed to save students more time! 'Me Time' identifies movable schedules and suggests to students that they could shift these to another day, thereby freeing up more personal time.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Moreover, there's a feature designed to save students more time! 'Me Time' identifies movable schedules and suggests to students that they could shift these to another day, thereby freeing up more personal time.
Scan to Try Azi and Discover More!
![]()
Future Outlook💰
Collaborative Discussions: We aim to collaborate with schools to gain access to the Canvas interface and assist students in planning their studies and lives effectively. This collaboration contributes to improving student graduation rates and employability.
PRFAQ
![]()
My Takeways💡
More to explore!
This journey has been incredible, and we've dedicated considerable effort to perfect the presentation of our three core concepts. Our goal is for our users to manage their time effortlessly and efficiently. We hope that by utilizing Azi, they will develop solid time management habits that will benefit them long after they've graduated from college. The intuitive and organized nature of Azi's calendar, are designed to help students navigate their busy schedules with ease, ensuring they can make the most of their academic and personal lives. Here's to building a future where time management becomes a cornerstone of success, both in and out of college!
This journey has been incredible, and we've dedicated considerable effort to perfect the presentation of our three core concepts. Our goal is for our users to manage their time effortlessly and efficiently. We hope that by utilizing Azi, they will develop solid time management habits that will benefit them long after they've graduated from college. The intuitive and organized nature of Azi's calendar, are designed to help students navigate their busy schedules with ease, ensuring they can make the most of their academic and personal lives. Here's to building a future where time management becomes a cornerstone of success, both in and out of college!
