The Reminder X app is aimed to be utilized by the specific target audience of college students. The interviews were conducted with participants from this audience. The participants interviewed did utilize reminders in the form of other applications or writing physical messages, such as sticky notes or planners. Most of the participants mentioned that with digital reminders they want to categorize to-do tasks according to home/school/work. When all the tasks are shown together they found it easy to become mixed up, since it is sometimes difficult to oversee when there are too many tasks to do. Thus, it would be helpful if tasks are organized into a category. 

The participants also talked about the difficulties of using the default app in the phone for a to-do list, which were derived from the difficulties of writing/typing in the phone and navigating how to use the app. More importantly, most of them prefer using the default personal note application for the to-do list than to using the reminder app on the phone. They stated it is more convenient for writing and easier to use (more usable). They use a reminder only to be alerted for an event, plus they want to get multiple alarms rather than just one time.

Discussing with a team member about the user's difficulties and the different solutions.

Creating UX flow helped understand the whole user journey and covering all the screens.

Mid-Fidelity Wireframe: a list of screens to cover all scenarios, using  a grayscale wireframe enables designers to detail out the workflows and functions. A mid-fidelity prototype was also developed to test the solution with users and fix the problems in the early stage.

After ensuring the usability of the prototype from the user testing, High Fidelity mock-up was implemented to present the final look of the Reminder X.

From the user research we could have gained more insight on the user’s needs for a reminder app and what difficulties they may have. This could have also been tested further with a round of user testing with the final prototype of the app. From the user testing, it was also found that while the initial audience was college students, with the category organization this Reminder X app would work for any person who needs their tasks organized with notifications.

The designers did discover from the information gathered from the participants and analyzing competitors' apps that there were solutions that could be tailored to the user’s needs in more effective and efficient ways from what was currently available in the app market.