Redesign of IKEA app.
A case study about redesigning an app:
And I screwed it up with the Allen key.
In a good way.
A quick intro:
After weeks of intensive teamwork projects, it’s time to step back and see what we can do on our own. It’s not that I don’t like teamwork, on the contrary, I like being a team even more than I like work. But I still wonder how life would unfold without the help of smart, well-equipped, creative friends.
To give you a quick introduction, in our third project at Ironhack we were asked to redesign an app. We could choose whatever we wanted as long as it was an app everyone knew.
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UI Designer
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3 (nights &) days in November 2022
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This time it was just me.
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Figma
Why the IKEA app?
I made a pretty primitive reasoning: What does everyone have at home? IKEA. Then the app that everyone will know should be IKEA. But I was wrong. Because when I picked up my phone, I saw that I didn’t actually have the IKEA app downloaded. It turns out that I had always used it from the browser until today.
Deliverables:
No user research this time, but instead let’s conduct a Heuristic analysis to see what is working and what might need my magic touch.
First clone the screens, then redesign 3 screens minimum.
The heuristic process:
Since IKEA is one of my love marks, no surprise that I took the user-first approach, as the user being “me”.
What did I need? A bookshelf to put in the 75-centimeter space in the hallway between the cat toilet and the kitchen door. Brilliant, I concentrated completely on this micro mission.
Long before I started reproducing the screens, I started noticing tiny imperfections that didn’t quite work. At the end of my Heuristic evaluation, I decided to focus on 4 mini bugs/problems in this UI challenge.
Introduce your brand
Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point. If you sell something, use this space to describe it in detail and tell us why we should make a purchase. Tap into your creativity. You’ve got this.
Introduce your brand
Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point. If you sell something, use this space to describe it in detail and tell us why we should make a purchase. Tap into your creativity. You’ve got this.
