NOW

As a passion project, I redesigned NOW, a wellness check application used by Northeastern University students and faculty members
ROLES
UI Design, Prototyping, Data Visualization
TOOLS
Figma
DURATION
November – December 2021
SKILLS
Product thinking
User research
Interaction design
Visual design
THE PROBLEM

COVID-19 and Wellness feature on Northeastern University's Now mobile application is inefficient and confusing to first-time user

Northeastern released a NOW application to provide students an easy to access university services and support. One of its feature called "Wellness" is dedicated to navigate students through the COVID-19 test scheduling process on campus.

I will review the existing user flow and propose a design concept that relooks at the current application experience for a new user who schedules COVID-19 testing for the first time on campus.

THE RESEARCH

Understand the process of getting tested for COVID-19 for new user

To explore possible inconsistencies, usability and flow issues in the UI, I observe the existing workflow and map out possible user interactions. After, I identified key insights:

User Task Flow

Journey Mapping

Design

Ideation

Gaining insights from the personal establishment and journey mapping, I started making some rough concepts of what the opportunity areas I had discovered from the Journey map. I identified two features from the opportunity areas:

  1. Show test scheduling option and all the steps needed for new users upon opening the app
  2. Incorporate test scheduling in-app instead of leading users to an external site
  3. Include a section with forms required for new students to fill in, along with other helpful forms

In addition to features from user's pain points, I also added two new features to the application:

Wireframing

Final Design