An answer to the data sharing of big tech companies, Torch solves the issue of having your data stored and shared without your permission. You can choose how much of your information is shared, and with who. Even better, you can share in the profits.
The company is taking really heavy topics about cybersecurity and data privacy and distilling it down to allow you transparency into how you could share it. My job is continuing that trusting feeling throughout the design of the app itself - through its branding and its interface.
As I passed off the design of the app to engineers to built it, I developed a Style Guide that they could use to create continuity between my designs, decks, the responsive website, and the app itself.
The two stakeholders I worked with were the CTO and the CEO, both bringing with them extensive technology background. Understanding the technology of the app and the vision for what users would experience was a difficult dance between the gravity of trust and transparency of the app and the security it involved to protect the data the user was storing in the app. Quick prototyping was vital to making the app feel trustworthy while also allowing users to understand what the app allows them to do.
Through rapid prototyping I was able to build an example of what users could experience that we could test on our phones. By producing it in XD, we had a live version of what the app could look and feel like that helped me better explore what exactly we wanted our users to take away from the experience.
Rapid prototyping was very new for me and having a prototype that was not testing or checked was a big change for me. I think that it turned out well and that what we shared was enough to secure $1m in funding.
Next time, I would investigate what the MVP for this app would before expanding on it a little more. Understanding the basics before diving into interactions is a key part of the Agile Process that I have learned since then.
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