Easy Mail | Case Study
Overview
Problem:Create a software tool to format text into an easy to read, eye scan format for dyslexic/reading challenged users.
Requirements:
- Easy to install and use application
- Easy to Modify and Configure customizable options
- Extremely easy to restart the process from initial launch to achieve outcome of perferred text content readability.
- Easy to Find, install and launch for users.
Solution:A Google Chrome Browser extention tool to paste text into a text area web component and adjust Lineheight, font, highlight questions and keywords.
Solution Team
The design brainstorming exploration, solution proposals and deliverables were chiefly owned and performed by 5 studenct and the members the coach over seeing the product experience:
- Student Programmer
- Student Programmer
- Student Programmer
- Student Programmer
- UX UI Design Coaching & Client *
My contributions as UX UI Design Coaching & Client:
- Proposed problem statement for MIT Accessibility (A11y) Course.
- Provide UI & UX Design feedback to student developers building the solution on how to optimize useability and design.
Design Stage
Early Design & Exploration
Early sketches, brainstorming and screenshots from initial run prototype the development team built.
Thumbnails and Story - User(s) current problem.
Thumb Story - overview
Screen flow - Solution
Prototype First Run
Visual Feedback on Settings Panel
Settings Panel - Component groupings
Pasted Unformatted Text into Text-area box
Resulting Formatted Text
Retrospective
- Students were able to get the prototype functional and cycle through a few rounds of basic visual refinements before the close of the semester.
- Students presented the project to the instructors and class peers.
- Provided future enhancement list of recommendations to the students if they chose to make any changes in the product later, like a checkbox for user to automatically configure color contrasting colors on hightlighted text against background or an icon indication that the selected customized color highlighted items meets easy realability and accessibility constrast ratios