My-Time

Background

Do you find yourself feeling like you can do more with your personal time to increase your personal productivity? Do you find it hard to schedule your personal activities in your calendar? Don’t worry, you are not alone.

Setting time for yourself should not be difficult. We know how overwhelming it might feel. That’s where My-Time comes in. We help you prioritize YOU, by optimizing your scheduling experience to plan your personal time. 

This way you spend less time planning and more time doing!

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User Pain Point

Meet Alex, a working professional, who has been struggling to plan his personal activities into his calendar. He wants to spend at least an hour at the gym three times a week, and meditate in the morning every day. However, he finds it demotivating to navigate through his busy schedule and slot some time in to do these activities. Alex feels like he could do more to achieve his personal goals, but he struggles to block time out to do so.

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Feedback

To understand our problem space better, we posted our survey on various platforms. Based on the responses of over 70 people, we found that over 85% of our participants agree that planning is important to them. Majority of our respondents currently use some form of planner to plan work meetings, appointments, errands and time for self-care and personal development. However, over 90% of our respondents were not satisfied with planning tools currently available to them. And over 70% want to, but find it difficult to plan their personal activities (self-care, personal development etc).

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Landing on the solution 

For our MVP, we decided to focus on the users who were having trouble scheduling their personal time. We hypothesized that scheduling a time for our users in their calendar will help our users feel more productive in their personal time and achieve their personal goals.

We confirmed this preliminary hypothesis by conducting some quick qualitative experiments with our users, and received a positive response. Thus, validating our proposed hypothesis.

Explanation of solution 

My-Time is a web platform that helps users plan and prioritize their personal time into their schedules.

My-Time allows users to efficiently plan their personal activities by giving them:

• a platform to organize their personal activities
• alleviate the stress of planning for our users by generating a schedule for them that can be added to their google calendars
• provide an easy to use experience for users to achieve their goals
  

Key features include:

• Secure log-in via google account
• Google calendar integration
• Choose personal activities for the week (limited to 3 at the moment)
• Auto-generated schedule, based on user’s preferences

Next Steps

We are almost done with our MVP on the live site. But while we complete building out our MVP, we have a working prototype on Maze for user testing as well as to collect feedback.

We really envision my-time to be a one stop shop for you to feel productive and satisfied with the use of your time. That being said, we have broken down our next steps into two categories below:

Pending features to be implemented in the MVP:

• Updates to web design, optimized for mobile
• Fully functional google calendar integration
• Rejig functionality to provide different versions of what the calendar could look like
  

Future features:

• Calendar optimization: activities will be slotted only in available windows
• Functionality to add more than 3 activities
• Integration of other planning tools: tasks, reminders etc
• Integrating other calendars

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Design

Lo-Fi Mock-ups 

Landing: Not very detailed

Activity Selection/Details: not as accessible

Schedule: No re-jig button

Hi-fi Mock-ups