The IKEA Place app offers an innovative solution for selecting furniture, but it remains unclear whether it effectively addresses the issue of previewing furniture in a personal space.

How did the story begin?

Design Process

Interview and Usability Testing

Research Key Findings

User Journey Map

Persona

Competitive Analysis

Ideation

User Flow

Low fidelity and Mid fidelity Wireframes

Iteration

Final Mockup-Scanning Process

Final Mockup-Human Scale

Product Information

Light Temperature

Final Mockup-Measure Length

IKEA Place App

After finishing an MVP, we reviewed the core value of the NEX work platform which is to bring value to referrers first and then to applicants. As a result, we decided to redesign the homepage to focus more on referrers.

Let’s see the before and after

Project Work Phase

Journey map to understand the context

ICE model to determine the next step

Interview

Information Architecture

Ideation- Wireframes

Responsive Design

Design System

Accessibility

NEX Work

As one of my most frequently used apps, I enjoy using Instagram. However, I sometimes encounter design or functional issues that cause me difficulty. I wonder if other people experience the same problems as I do.

Here is how I do...

Who will be in the test?

Here’s what I found after the test!

Frame the priority of problems

Primary Problem Analysis

User flow

From my observation, no one found the setting icon in the top right corner on the creating story page. Most users assume they can find it on the editing page.

Many users indicate that they always forget to uncheck after hiding a friend. Users only want to hide a story from thier friends instead of all stories.

When users need to find a particular thing from many sbuject, "Name of sbuject", "Sequence of sbuject," and "Readability" are important.

Iterative design

I redesigned Andrea Ko Jewelry Design Courses Website (RWD) to make it more organized and clean.

Hello! I am

Shin!

a designer

a researcher

a creator

A UX designer based in Toronto

IKEA Place App

NEX Work Referral Platform

Instagram "Story" Feature