Café

Café

Café

Role → UX Designer/Researcher


Timeline 8 weeks


Team Contracted UX Designers and the Café Team

The team and my role

Context

• Worked with two developers, a product manager, and four designers.

• Led user testing and redesign of the Event creation feature.

01.Project intro

Background

  • What's Café? a platform for managing hybrid work environments.

  • Redesigned feature: Event creation.

  • Features redesigned based on user testing.

  • Prior prototype developed for testing.

Timeline

At a high level, this project had three phases to it:

  • Unmoderated user testing to identify specific issues.

  • Design iterations based on user feedback.

  • Post-redesign user testing.

02.Why user testing and redesign?

  • Understand the users and improve feature accessibility and intuitiveness.

  • Ensure efficiency and validate design changes.

03.Key insights from user testing

04.Goals for redesign

04.Implementing user feedback

Figma interactive prototype

Outcome

  • Easier to locate and use the "Create event" button.

  • More intuitive and efficient process.

  • Faster event creation with fewer delays.

  • Higher satisfaction with improved layout.

Impact post user testing

  • 10% increase in user satisfaction.

  • 2 second reduction in average time spent searching for "Create event" button .

  • 100% consistency in task completion success rate.

Taking time to reflect

By prioritizing user-centric design and maintaining ongoing collaboration with clients, we significantly improved Café’s usability, ensuring alignment with business objectives and establishing a robust foundation for future iterations.


Although this project was a huge success thanks to my wonderful collaborative team and the folks at Café, there were some additional deliverables I would have loved to test if we had more time and resources. Specifically, I would have loved to test the actual event creation flow to gain insights into its usability and accessibility.


As always, thank you for sticking with me until the very end of this journey. Until next time!