My Objective : 
Youngsters now-a-days are facing lot of challenges to maintain a Work-Life Balance. As they have a busy schedule everyday, they could not keep on track with their health as well as Work. This may lead to Sleeplessness, various deficiencies and other diseases at very young age. To over come this and make a streamlined life, there must be an Interface that would assist people to schedule their daily tasks, monitor their health, Food behaviors, track their daily habits, notify about events happening around and help them achieve a work-life balance.
Storyboarding for the app
The App design started with storyboarding excerise to understand in what scenarios the app will be useful for the users. A quick sketching of the storyboard was done and presented to the stakes for review and first level of approval.
Storyboarding for the app
The Storyboarding was followed by Information Architecture and Task Analysis. The most important tasks were identified and sorted out. As I wanted this app to be simple to use and cover many personas, I did not want to give too many options and confuse them rather keep them minimal and crisp.
In the initial design phase, I designed some quick wireframes in balsamiq and made a dry run with my friends and colleagues about the features of the app and got some quick reviews from them. The colors are used minimal in the wireframes to keep the user focused on the tasks and not get into too much details on the UI. As the design is still in evloution stage, I did not want the user to get biased with the colors and look of the App rather I wanted them to concentrate and give feedbacks on the features and functionalities of the app
The App consists of Menu which shows your Sleep dynamics, Voice recognition, Tasks reminders and health monitor. This acts more like a personal assistant who keeps you informed about your meetings, reminders, events, health, food and various other aspects and helps you maintain a perfect work-life balance.
The App also intelligently sets alarm according to your next day schedule and also prompts you to sleep at a nominal time to have to complete sleep cycle. 
The App will also suggest you routes based on traffic density and climate conditions.
After the inital cut wireframes are designed and nailed down, I started designing the High fidelity working prototype in Axure Pro. After a lot of iterations and thought process, I decided to have Minions as a Avatar for the App which will assist the user with the App. This was welcomed by most users though we got some suggestion to have an option of customization for the avatar. 
The App sports bright annd vibrant colors throughout all the screens to give a fresh look and feel. They can be customized to be monotone too. The Minions added a bit of fun and improved the over all experience for the users when using the app.
Various Minion images were used for various scenarios in the app to avoid repeatition and monotony. They exhibit funny poses for each menu item and screen.
Work♥Life App
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Work♥Life App

I designed this app as a Part of my Human - Computer Interaction Course done through Coursera.

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