Passion Project:
Created for Dribbble’s Product Design course
Challenge:
Improve the UI/UX of an existing application. I chose to redesign the blink security app from Amazon.
The Problems
- Ambiguous, confusing icons
- Empty space / no default image for each camera or device
- Overlapping elements
- General lack of aesthetic appeal
Ideation / Development
Moodboard / Design Inspiration
I compared an array of security apps and pulled in designs from a few other apps that accomplished the look and feel I was interested in – something light, clean, and trustworthy.
Paper Wireframes
I sketched out some ideas on paper before moving into Figma for the redesigns.
Wireframes for Current App
I wireframed the primary pages of the app in Figma to get a distraction-free overview of the components that were in use and how they were arranged.
High-Fidelity Mockups
Iteration 1
I liked the way the Ring app incorporated photos of each device in use and tried incorporating thumbnail images of the devices into my first round of mockups…except there were less like thumbnails and more like – eyelashes? Far too small to be useful for the user. So, those got removed for round two.
Some of my icons were also crammed pretty close together and so I spaced them out a bit more so there would be less chance of a user tapping the wrong button.
I also built out the list view of the home screen in the second round.
Iteration 2
Next Steps
I did not have the opportunity to work through more of the development process for this project, but the following is a brief plan for future development:
- Conduct basic user testing – ask users what they think each icon and element on the screen does, and how they would go about accomplishing some basic tasks.
- Revise home mockups
- Retest
- Build out additional screens
- Create interactive prototype and conduct more user testing
