One of our team members thought that presenting the charts that you made in Google sheets on your iPad would be great.

We wanted to solve the problem of presenting charts to somebody without giving them the actual Excel document. On top of that, you want to impress them with clean UI and charts with no distractions.

Potential user for this app would be somebody who uses Google sheets to make all kinds of charts and wants to share charts with his/her friends, co-workers, boss, etc. straight from the app. The best part is that whomever he shared those charts with would be able to see the changes in real time if the original Google sheets document is changed.

We found out that there is no good app that does exactly what we do. Two of our biggest competitors were AppMaker and Zoho. They help users to make custom apps using data they provided.

We wanted nothing as complex as our competitors’ solutions. We tried to focus on one thing only, which is the best possible visual representation of charts and graphs from Google Sheets.

I use dribbble for inspiration. Seeing what these great designers do is definitely helpful.

I decided to make the app have both light and dark modes. So the plan was to find colors that look good on both backgrounds.

Invision’s Freehands is good to make a quick low fidelity UI design. I don’t spend too much time on this or sometimes even skip this step.

Illustrations in the app are perceived faster than text so users may cover the key message quickly. On top of that, they strengthen the aesthetic and emotional appeal of the interface. So I decided to create some illustrations for this app.

Since technical people participate in the early stages of the process, they can start implementation while the Design phase is in progress.

The development team builds back end functionality first and connects it with UI when they get design artifacts.

This part of the story is not available yet since the development is still ongoing for this project.

After successfully developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and accompanying website for [name of the app], unfortunately, further progress was halted due to insufficient interest from the target audience. Despite our initial efforts to create an engaging and functional solution, the anticipated traction and user engagement did not materialize as expected.

While the project did not proceed beyond the MVP stage, the experience was invaluable in refining my skills as a UX designer and provided insights into the challenges of product development and market validation. Moving forward, I am eager to apply these learnings to future endeavors, ensuring that user needs and market demand are thoroughly researched and validated from the outset."