Student Balance
Creators: Nada, Lennix, Kristen & Brycen
School: High School Students from Virtual Innovators Academy
Location: Bronx, NY
Project Themes: Education
About this Project
Student Balance is a time-management tool primarily designed to help students in our VIA virtual school manage their time with submitting assignments and homework. It has features such as reminders, to-do-lists, focus timers, and a calendar. It also has the bonus of potentially being useful to many others in our school community and outside of it.
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I really like the look of this app. The overall vibe is very calming, which you need when dealing with the stress of time management.
Your research is very thorough. Happy to see that you interviewed users to understand their pain points and the user quotes help to back up the ideas.
Competitive analysis is important too! Glad you looked at that.
The AI integration is great too. I wish I knew more about the "canvas system" that you mentioned. Is that something your school uses to hand out assignments? Is it a manual task to add homework assignments or does it automatically integrate? Getting it to integrate with your app doesn't sound too hard, but for presenting to new people (or investors!), you'd have to explain how that works.
Two small points:
I would add a stop/start/pause button to the timer in addtion to the reset button so users can take a quick break to get a snack or drink.
Last, please check your accessibility color contrasts. There might be better choices for the type on the login screen. I saw darker colors in your Style Guide (which I love by the way!)
All in all, more that a wonderful start. I can see you put in a lot of hard work, both before the app and in designing the wireframes. Hopefully you'll get a chance to test with your users, learn more and make even more improvements. Thanks for sharing!
Your research is very thorough. Happy to see that you interviewed users to understand their pain points and the user quotes help to back up the ideas.
Competitive analysis is important too! Glad you looked at that.
The AI integration is great too. I wish I knew more about the "canvas system" that you mentioned. Is that something your school uses to hand out assignments? Is it a manual task to add homework assignments or does it automatically integrate? Getting it to integrate with your app doesn't sound too hard, but for presenting to new people (or investors!), you'd have to explain how that works.
Two small points:
I would add a stop/start/pause button to the timer in addtion to the reset button so users can take a quick break to get a snack or drink.
Last, please check your accessibility color contrasts. There might be better choices for the type on the login screen. I saw darker colors in your Style Guide (which I love by the way!)
All in all, more that a wonderful start. I can see you put in a lot of hard work, both before the app and in designing the wireframes. Hopefully you'll get a chance to test with your users, learn more and make even more improvements. Thanks for sharing!
The problem you are solving is real and something a lot of students deal with every day, especially with social media making it so hard to stay focused.
The wireframes and the overall presentation show how much thought and care went into this project from start to finish. The features you picked, reminders, to-do lists, focus timers, and a calendar, are exactly what students need and they all work together really well. As a college student myself, this is something I would definitely use.
One idea to think about for your next version: adding something that blocks distracting apps like social media during focus time would make this even stronger for the students you are designing for.
Amazing work, Nada, Lennix, Kristen & Brycen!👏🏼
The wireframes and the overall presentation show how much thought and care went into this project from start to finish. The features you picked, reminders, to-do lists, focus timers, and a calendar, are exactly what students need and they all work together really well. As a college student myself, this is something I would definitely use.
One idea to think about for your next version: adding something that blocks distracting apps like social media during focus time would make this even stronger for the students you are designing for.
Amazing work, Nada, Lennix, Kristen & Brycen!👏🏼
