Spaces, a shared journal to reminisce on memories grounded in locations.

Timeline 5 Weeks
Team Brayan Jimenez, Gwenna Gram, Julia Kolde
Role UX design, Motion design, User research

Spaces, a shared journal to reminisce on memories grounded in locations.

Timeline 5 Weeks
Team Brayan Jimenez, Gwenna Gram, Julia Kolde
Role UX design, Motion design, User research
Home, journal and edit phone screens for Spaces app.
1/5 Research Insights

Conversations and sketches by participants in eight living environments highlighted an opportunity for reimagining location sharing for more intimate spaces.

Two scans of participant drawing from initial research.
01

Primary audiences for location sharing are families and partners, where physical and intangible status are meaningful.

02

Safety is a common use of traditional location sharing. A focus on arrival notifications may help address this.

03

People highly value privacy in the context of micro-locations and with emotional sharing.

2/5 Storyboard

Illustrations imagined situational context, where an asynchronous couple communicates on a more expressive canvas.

Storyboard showing Sammie and Max asynchronously sharing memories via Spaces app.
3/5 Interface Design

Four rounds of iteration resulted in a paged-journal metaphor that blends drawn context, text and image stickers.

Four phone screens showing interface iteration.
4/5 Testing Insights

Participant walkthroughs of an early prototype influenced changes to key moments in task flows.

Drawing of first participant from user testing.
“I feel like this concept makes it personal, raw, intimate...It feels unclear how new pages work.”

Design Change
‍Revise content design for interface components & make affordances more clear.

Drawing of second participant from user testing.
“I know where I am at now and feel comfortable like a physical journal entry. Scanning feels burdensome.”

Design Change
Shift scanning experience to in-app drawing while mimicking texture of physical illustration tools.

Drawing of third participant from user testing.
“I would really want to add a date to my page — I want to pin the location, and maybe see the weather that day?”

Design Change
Enable more personalization and context — how can we give journal users more autonomy with their collaged memories?

Task Flow 1

After onboarding and setup, pull down to borrow the shared journal for two days.

Task Flow 2

Sketch a space and add text stickers and media on top.

Task Flow 3

Resurface older pages and memories with timely notifications.

5/5 Conclusion

A movie imagined the prototype within one of many stories from research participants.