Skills
Web Development
User Research
User Testing
Interaction Design
Visual Design

Tools
HTML/CSS
JavaScript

Personal Project

The Team! Me: UX Design + Web Development
Austin Roddick: User Research 

Duration
STILL BUILDING

Intentive: a Browser Extension

When webpages are abundant with potential distractions,
how can we regain control of our time and energy? 

[Excuse the clutter, page is under construction!]

"People should be able to benefit from the abundance and availability of information, rather than suffer from a lack of ability to process and consume it."

- Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

1. 

Problem

Even when users navigate to a webpage with a specific goal in mind, they are often distracted by other page content, sometimes losing recall of the initial intent which brought them to the page in the first place.

2.

Observations

• Users have “tasks” and “subtasks.” They often record tasks in other windows, and retain subtasks in cognitive storage, not recording them at all. 
  

• Users are most likely to get distracted when stuck on a problem. After returning from distractions, they forget the specific sub-task they were working on.
• Users may pursue multiple tasks simultaneously. This results in an overwhelming number of 20+ tabs open.
• Landscape analysis reveals a lack of in-browser to-do lists in the market. 

3.

Goal

Design a task-reminder that is: short-term (dedicated to “subtasks”), and in-browser. 

4.

Solution

A browser extension, which prompts users for their initial motivations upon opening a window, and sticks their answer in a “sticky note” on the page.