Steward: Household Organization Application
UX/UI App Design
CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
During my third year of college, I lived in a household organized by a campus ministry, designed to cultivate intentional community among students. The structure combined daily responsibilities—like chores and shared spaces—with practices of purposeful living, including communal meals, group prayer, and regular community events.
Few apps exist that allow a household of people to organize all their events, schedules, activities, tasks, and other responsibilities all in one place both individually and collectively.
Steward is an app designed to organize and structure college household living all in a central location that allows for real-time updates.
Anyone in a communal or organized living setup, specifically college students or people living independently from their families.
BENCHMARKING
Pros:
- Organized calendar
- Share features
- Incorporates tasks & events
- Scheduling across users
Cons:
- Cluttered
- Can’t assign tasks to others
- Single feature
Pros:
- Designed to track and schedule family events
- Color coded members
- Everything in one place
Cons:
- Designed only for families
- Mobile calendar is cluttered
- No task prioritization
Pros:
- Collaborative features
- Designed more for household living
- Assign tasks
- Overview for “today”
Cons:
- Not calendar based
- Social and statistic based
- Clunky and glitchy
- No directions
- Goal: “turning chores into rewards”
THE USERS
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
PRIMARY TASK FLOW
This task flow walks through the main features of the app to give a big picture overview of what Steward offers.
SECONDARY TASK FLOW
This task flow gets into some of the technical and more advanced features of the app and provides an example of how the app could incorporate artificial intelligence.
This task flow gets into some of the technical and more advanced features of the app and provides an example of how the app could incorporate artificial intelligence.
KEY POINTS
- Understand at a glance
- See other’s tasks also
- Able to see other’s schedules
- Curated to each user
KEY POINTS
- Understand at a glance
- See other’s tasks also
- Able to see other’s schedules
- Curated to each user
- Understand at a glance
- See other’s tasks also
- Able to see other’s schedules
- Curated to each user
App onboarding wireframes: the onboarding journey follows a user signing up for the app and then creating a household.