Designed with college students and young adults in mind, HouseMates is a devoted space for roommate communities. With research centered on specific responsibilities and relationships in a shared home, this app provides a platform for staying on top of it all with no need to nag.
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Process Peek
This app was researched, designed, and prototyped over the course of several months in a UX Design course. I was initially interested in designing an app for communal living by my own experience living in a house with six roommates. My overall goal was to design a platform to encourage effective communication and decrease passive-aggressiveness — an app that does the nagging so you don’t have to! I conducted focus groups and interviews to determine what matters in a house community, like privacy, household chores, and finances.
UX Research
Site Mapping
Wire Frames Sketches
Prototype Screens
Feature Breakdown
Announcements
Stop going through dozens (or hundreds!) of group chat messages from weeks ago. Announcements makes it simple. Living on the app home screen, this feature gives important messages a place to live that isn’t cluttered with GIFs.
Tasks
Keep track of chores and responsibilities with Tasks. This feature helps you create a highly customizable schedule, or “chore wheel,” that automatically updates a task rotation.
Do Not Disturb
Studying for a big test? Had a hard day? Let your roommates know that you need some privacy with in-app Do Not Disturb mode. Enabling sends a push notification to your housemates and silences app notifications until disabled.
Payments
Stay on top of rent with reoccurring scheduled charges in Payments. Direct integration of Venmo makes it simple.
Geotagging
See who’s home on the app home screen. Enter the house location in Settings to use GeoTagging to automatically update when coming and going.
Calendar
Too many events in your life to keep track of? In-app Calendar syncs changes to all housemates’ devices so you can make sure everyone is on the same page when it comes to house events.