Week 6

Bhakti Shah
Designing a virtual assistant for IKEA
3 min readOct 29, 2019

We were tasked with studying two virtual assistants to understand how they scale up to different platforms

Body Storming

Thanks to Matt for suggesting that we actually role play and see what it is to design a house together. How would we mood board and what data points and discussions will be happening around that?

Wireframes and UI

Week 6 began with a bit of panic set in. We were falling behind in terms of our UI. Since we started with our end state, we were struggling a bit to wrap our head around the different states we would need.

We got our block diagrams reviewed and went with a card approach which gives an overview.

UI Explorations

Feedback Round 1

  • How can Mika guide through the process? Should there be a visual indicator?
  • Blue panel taking up a lot of focus
V2

We changed the blue panel to a neutral grey. Also, for this screen particularly, we were told instead of ownership we can showcase the vote of the other user.

Version 3

Storyboarding

Video

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