TIMOTHY JORDAN: Oh, hi.
I'm just building a paper prototype here
in the Design Tent, and I'm going
to get this design reviewed in a few minutes.
But first, let's take a look around, shall we?
All right.
Hey, Liam.
How are things?
LIAM: Good.
How about you?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I'm doing great.
I'm going to get a design review.
I'm a little nervous, but we'll save that for a few minutes
from now.
Before I get there, I kind of want
to know what's going on with these posters.
It looks like you had a Design Sprint.
LIAM: Sure.
So these posters are kind of showcasing the work
that we did at the Dimensions Sprint up in SF.
It was a three-day event where Google
brought a bunch of designers and developers
together to kind of ideate and come up with some solutions
around these five categories.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Cool.
Can we see some of the stuff?
What is this?
LIAM: Sure.
So this one is called Bae Window,
and basically the idea is to keep two people connected
to each other.
It's a live wallpaper.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Oh, I get it.
Bae, like B-A-E. OK.
LIAM: Yeah, exactly.
So you basically pair with your partner.
And then you can upload photos directly
to their live wallpaper.
And if you go a while without connecting,
then you kind of see these two circles like start
to drift away a little bit.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's not good.
All right.
What's another one of your favorites up here?
LIAM: I think this one is probably
one of my most favorites.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah?
LIAM: It's around self-activation.
And the idea here is just kind of a community
where you can share experiences and get some support.
It's made to serve the needs of people
who are looking for a safe place to talk about experiences
they've had, kind of document their own progress of working
through those at their own pace, and just keep
track of how they're doing.
So it kind of allows you to track
how you're feeling each day, some thoughts or experiences
you might have throughout the day,
and just how you're making progress.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: It's a beautiful design, too.
All right.
Let's look at one more.
LIAM: Sure.
So this is one that I helped out with, actually.
It's around productivity.
So the idea here is that a lot of people, especially
if you work in a consultancy setting,
you have a lot of different tasks and project managers
and tools that you use.
And you might spend a lot of time jumping between those
to figure out what you're supposed
to be doing for the day.
So this is an idea that uses Android's ability
to share data between apps to collect all of the tasks that
are assigned to you and then allow you to kind of make
your schedule for the day, regardless of where
that work is coming from.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's cool.
And is this actually like a working prototype here?
LIAM: Yeah, working-ish.
So you kind of just triage the things
that you want to add to your list
by swiping in one direction or the other.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: It's fun.
LIAM: So you make it all the way through your list,
and then you kind of have your list here.
And if you want to, you can reorganize some of them,
just based on the order that you want to knock them out in.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: It's a really beautiful design.
This is very inspiring.
It's very material, too.
LIAM: Yeah.
So a big focus of Dimensions was also just
what makes Android unique as a platform
and trying to solve for these categories
based around those ideas.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's awesome.
All right, Liam.
Thank you so much.
LIAM: Yeah.
Thank you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I think I'm going to go find Yasmine around
here somewhere.
LIAM: Awesome.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK.
Hi.
YASMINE: Hey.
How's it going?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: It's going well.
Yasmine, these are my friends.
YASMINE: Hi, everyone.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hi, friends.
So I'm a little nervous.
This is my first design review in a long time.
I made--
YASMINE: Don't worry.
We'll be kind.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK.
This is my app.
It turns out, if you spend a few minutes every day writing down
what you're grateful for, you live a more stress-free life.
So I figured maybe I could build an app that's
a gratitude journal.
And this is what I'm thinking.
This is the Home screen.
And when you bring up the app, it just
shows something that you're grateful for,
which is rated based on a thing I'll say later.
And so it just lists that so you can kind of remember the things
that you did.
And then you go into this List view, and this is your journal.
It's chronological, and it's super simple.
It just shows the things you're grateful for and the day.
And if you double tap it, you add hearts to it.
And you can add as many as you want.
So as you go through your journal, you can say, oh, yeah.
I remember that, and I loved that.
And the more hearts it gives, the more it
shows up on your home screen.
YASMINE: Oh, so it's like-- so you
can see the memories that are most important to you
and bring you most joy.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: You can reinforce them.
YASMINE: OK, yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And then, if you hit the plus icon, you go over
and you just type in what you're grateful for.
And then it just automatically puts it in your journal.
So you just go in any time and say, you know what?
I'm grateful for this thing.
YASMINE: Yeah.
No, that sounds awesome.
And I love it.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's it.
Just simple.
YASMINE: No, it's simple.
That's the best way to start.
Can you tell me about the other navigation
that you have going on here?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So these are just the buttons,
and I'm not really sure what to do here, because I put three
of them each place, but maybe instead it's
like a button that expands into the options.
But these are just for getting to the List view, the Home,
and this is a plus for--
that's actually a little house.
I know it's hard to see.
YASMINE: OK.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So there's a little house.
And these are three lines indicating the list.
And that's just a plus for adding it.
YASMINE: Yeah, definitely.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: What do you think about that?
YASMINE: So one of the things that you
might want to consider doing is using a floating action
button as the main component, which you kind of have
going on right here.
But instead of-- you move it out of the bottom navigation
and add it to the top so it's always floating in there.
One of the things with action buttons, a lot of people
think, all right, let's add them everywhere.
But it should be tied to an action.
So you shouldn't use it for navigation, mostly
for something like creating a post.
One thing that you could add is if you
were adding as your journal, as it expanded later on,
you would tap the Add button for adding a new thing
that you're grateful for.
And potentially maybe then you could add one
where it's photos.
So it's maybe you want to do a text one or a photos
one or a video one.
So that can give you quick access
to adding a new journal entry.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
YASMINE: So that's one potential to think of.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I guess, now that I'm thinking about it,
and you say that, maybe I get rid of the navigation buttons.
And the way you get between this and the list
is you just scroll down.
YASMINE: Yeah, you could.
You could, because there isn't going
to be a whole lot, at least in the beginning.
One of the things you might want to consider adding
is some form of search, because you'll probably
want to search through all your memories--
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah.
YASMINE: --and remember what made you happy.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK.
Is there anything else about this app you want to tell me?
YASMINE: No.
I love that you started off with sketching first.
That's one of the things that we really
encourage everyone to do, because then you're
not married to this solution.
Because you can go on and think, hmm, maybe
I don't really like how this is working.
Let's think of some other iterations,
and you haven't spent time coding or designing it
within a sketch or anything.
So this is a great way to start.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
Well, thank you so much.
YASMINE: All right.
Well, thank you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That was really painless.
I'm happy.
YASMINE: You're good?
You're good.
All right, good.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK.
YASMINE: We try to make it easy for everyone.
So, yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: All right.
Well, that's the Design Booth, everybody.
I'm going to go start on my app.
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