HannsNote2, our advanced digital notebook, enhances the writing experience with paper display technology and eco-friendly design, winning the 2024 German iF Design Award. I led the project from concept to launch, overseeing competitive analysis, user research, UI design, prototyping, and testing. Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers, we ensured a successful market entry. Partnering with Chunghwa Telecom, we targeted 10,000 unit sales in Taiwan, with plans to expand to Europe and Japan.
Position: Product Designer
Responsibilities:
Based on the feedback from HannsNote1 users, we have re-drawn our direction. In this version, we hope to pay more attention to the note-taking function and device interaction function. Therefore, in this interview, we interviewed users of electronic notebooks and users of traditional notebooks respectively. We hope to understand through their answers what habits people have when using notes, and what they hope HannsNote2 can provide Give them something that will make them more comfortable to use and meet the needs of note users.
Through interviews, we have listed 3 personas. They are Katty, a 30-year-old marketing specialist. Sandy, a 35-year-old florist who is married and has a child. and Naoto, a 42-year-old office worker who is married and has children. Through these three personas, we listed their pain points and needs. Work out the features our users currently need most and prioritize them.
Therefore, in this version of hannsnote2, we have added the function of classifying notes to facilitate users to quickly find notes. There is also a very special tag function that allows users to freely customize their own tags. In addition, there is a calendar function that allows users to complete their to-do items on one device.
In addition, we noticed that many users of traditional notebooks use the clipboard function, so we also added it to this version so that users can freely import the pictures they want from the database.
Finally, in the future, we hope that through cooperation with different bookstores, our users can take notes and read directly on e-books.
We use Lo-fi prototype to conduct user usability testing, which can effectively reduce design costs. And different interface tasks are set up for users, so that UI design can be produced more efficiently.
We tested a total of 5 times, with 4 people testing each time. There are 7 kinds of tests in total, which respectively test the home page operation, note operation, folder, calendar, label function, note taking on Book and the use of material library.
Through these tests, we continued to optimize our user interface. From the beginning, it took users an average of 6-10 minutes to complete the entire test, and in the end it only took 1 minute to complete the entire test.
During the testing process, apart from recording each test session, we also conduct post-test interviews with the participants. When organizing the areas that need modification, if engineering input is required, we discuss it with the engineers while considering feasibility. Additionally, if there is a singular blocking issue, we rely on subsequent user testing to assess whether corrections are needed.
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