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Quiet Time

Journaling app for the everyday

The Problem

Users need a space to centralize their journaling, for entries online and offline

Keeping physical copies of journals become unrealistic when time and size increase. Also journal entries can get lost or decentralized, due to lost or ruined notebooks, to name one reason. To counterfeit these problems, users need a space that centralizes their entries while keeping their format and objective distinct.

The Goal

Design and develop a catered solution for a centralized journaling space, both online and offline

Centralizing offline and online journal entries creates a valuable space for the user to keep track of their thoughts and be ensured that content will not get lost.

User Research

Creating empathy and efficiency in the design process

Core Functionalities

As MVP, QuietTime offers:

  • Edit and save new entries
  • View previous entries, sorted by date
  • Categorize entries with tags
  • Add little thoughts through card on each entry
  • Add cover photo for each entry
  • Design Process

    During the first iteration, I approached making the main page of the product be a grid of entries, so users could easily identify the title and date.

    Initial Devo design

    However, I thought that as the number of entries grew, this option would not be scalable. Also, my initial vision for the product being as closely related to a real notebook entry was not reflected in this design.

    Second Devo design

    With continuous iteration, the skeleton of the design above is what QuietTime has adopted.

    It has the entry list on the left side of the screen, and majority of the screen is allotted for the journal entry. Although there are guided aspects within the page, the empty page allows for the user to take control of their entry and write simple journal entries or specific event targetted entries.



    Current design

    Currently, the UI has a scrollable left-side so that previous entries can be scanned with ease, while maintaining the current entry on page.

    Competitive Analysis

    Understanding the market

    Day One Journal

    Day one journal offers simple UI/UX across all screen sizes that users love and appreciate. It has the right amount of feature sets that do not over or underwhelm its users. However, over the years as the product developped,the paid-tier plans decreased customer loyalty as users were overwhelmed by the growth of the application.

    Penzu

    This is a great product that focuses on privacy of the content. It allows for ease of syncing entries, both text and photos, to the web for free. However, paid users feel as though the paid subscriptions do not offer much more than a free account. The retention of users seem lacking for this product.

    Color Palette & Typeface

    Color Palette: Color palette

    Font Palette: Font palette

    Development

    Technical Architecture

    React, EmotionJS, Firestore

    User Testing & Validation

    Iterating through feedback

    Coming soon!

    Next Steps

    Continuous improvment & development

    Coming soon!
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