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AlarmFlow is designed in mind to ensure users wake up on time in the morning. People struggle with oversleeping, AlarmFlow tackles that problem by creating a sequence of alarms to combat snoozing through your alarms. The app simplifies and neatly handles the process of creating a cluster alarms, reducing the actions to a couple clicks.
- Omar Rivas - (Phase I) worked on the brief intro(home page), Caveats & Conclusion / (Phase II) Introduction, Conclusion, Caveats, and Executive Summary
- Naruki Fujita - (Phase I) worked on Executive Summary, setting links ("Personas and Scenarios", "Sketches and Diagrams", "Phase I"), and Methods & Findings / (Phase II) Methods & Findings, Wireframes, and rewriting Executive Summary of Phase I
- Edgar Castellanos - (Phase I) worked on Introduction
- Jackson Carlock -
- Personas and Scenarios
- Sketches and Diagrams
- Wireframes
- Prototype - Coming Soon
Executive Summary
No competitor offers automatic multi-alarm generation.
Among four competitor products examined in our Competitive Analysis, none could automatically generate multiple alarms from a start time, end time, and interval. This is AlarmFlow's key differentiator.
The biggest usability gap in current alarm apps is efficiency.
Our Heuristic Evaluation of the iPhone Clock app found that managing multiple alarms requires creating each one individually, with no batch creation, batch deletion, or undo.
Users across different lifestyles share the same core need.
All three personas (college student, marketing manager, student athlete) struggle with the same problem: setting multiple alarms one by one is slow and unreliable. AlarmFlow's core feature directly addresses this universal need.
A 3-tap creation flow was sketched.
We designed a hand-drawn flow in which users configure start time, end time, and interval in just three taps, addressing the inefficiencies found in the Heuristic Evaluation. These sketches will become the basis for Phase II wireframes.
Our research has limitations.
We did not conduct user interviews or include paid competitor apps, and our heuristic scores may reflect the team's high technical proficiency.
Executive Summary
Users were able to successfully complete tasks with the current design.
All evaluators completed their assigned scenarios in the Cognitive Walkthroughs, proving that the flow of the alarm app is intuitive for new users.
Identified clarity issues with the usability.
Some users were confused with the "+" button and the term "interval" deeming both as ambiguous highlighting the lack of clarity, and commenting on the lack of navigation and error recovery options.
Focusing on the design improvements from the feedback.
The wireframes moved to a dashboard-centered layout and clearer button labels in response to the walkthrough findings.
User feedback validated AlarmFlow's core value.
Informal feedback (n=11 responses) confirmed that users struggle with managing multiple alarms and snoozing, reinforcing the relevance of AlarmFlow's solution.
Feature scope was clarified through user input.
Feedback helped distinguish between requests already addressed by AlarmFlow (multi-alarm flows) and out-of-scope requests (e.g., timers, hands-free controls).
Executive Summary
!!!Put phase III Executive Summary here!!!