Olly
Outlook Assistant
Outlook, made simpler
In 24 hours I was the lead designer that created the animation and assisted in the research behind Olly.
My Role
Lead Designer
Skills
Motion Media
User Experience Research
Programs
Jitter, Figma Slides
Team Members
Matthew Golonka
Problem
When we chose to redesign Outlook something stood out to me, the inability to find what I needed in a timly manner
So we created an assistant with all the most used tools that can assist in any way possible
Research
When researching what caused the most trouble, we wanted to compare the number of choices users had across different emailing platforms.
Apple Mail - 5 buttons
Yahoo Mail - 6 buttons
Gmail - 10 buttons
Outlook- 40 buttons
How have other assistants worked?
Siri? Cortana?
When creating our helper, we looked at the entire market of different solutions to help streamline processes. From this, we landed on a design that streamlined from the right, allowing users to click exactly what they needed in the moment.
Ideation
How will it work?
While we wanted to display multiple forms of information, doing so in a clean and simple way was challenging. Therefore, we looked at inspiration where circular methods were used to present this information.
And then sketched ideas for the product and the animation
Mid-Fidelity
We continued to the high fidelity due to time contraints
User Testing
Testing against the competitors
In this testing, we measured how much time it took to find the attach button in both Outlook and Google to compare it to something similar to Olly. We found that it took a staggering 10 more seconds to locate the correct button, comparatively.
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Final Iteration
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Thank you for reading
Olly
Outlook Assistant
Outlook, made simpler
In 24 hours I was the lead designer that created the animation and assisted in the research behind Olly.
My Role
Lead Designer
Skills
Motion Media
User Experience Research
Programs
Jitter, Figma Slides
Team Members
Matthew Golonka
Problem
When we chose to redesign Outlook something stood out to me, the inability to find what I needed in a timly manner
So we created an assistant with all the most used tools that can assist in any way possible
Research
When researching what caused the most trouble, we wanted to compare the number of choices users had across different emailing platforms.
Apple Mail - 5 buttons
Yahoo Mail - 6 buttons
Gmail - 10 buttons
Outlook- 40 buttons
How have other assistants worked?
Siri? Cortana?
When creating our helper, we looked at the entire market of different solutions to help streamline processes. From this, we landed on a design that streamlined from the right, allowing users to click exactly what they needed in the moment.
Ideation
How will it work?
While we wanted to display multiple forms of information, doing so in a clean and simple way was challenging. Therefore, we looked at inspiration where circular methods were used to present this information.
And then sketched ideas for the product and the animation
Mid-Fidelity
We continued to the high fidelity due to time contraints
User Testing
Testing against the competitors
In this testing, we measured how much time it took to find the attach button in both Outlook and Google to compare it to something similar to Olly. We found that it took a staggering 10 more seconds to locate the correct button, comparatively.
Final Iteration
Click to youtube if there is any trouble with the video playing