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UX/UI Design

Simplifying Living in Shared Spaces

Unihub

Brief

Brief

Create an immersive User Experience for a post-rental management platform that allows users to navigate seamlessly through services, intuitive utility bill management and expense splitting, alongside efficient handling of flat details and important document storage.
The goal is to create an engaging, visually appealing, and accessible interface, enhancing the post-rental experience for users.

About UniHub

Uni-Hub :- Simplifying Living in Shared Spaces
Uni-Hub is an innovative mobile application designed to address the unique challenges faced by students living in a shared flats or apartments. It serves as a comprehensive solution to streamline and enhance the overall living experience by integrating essential services 24/7, ensuring convenience, managing expenses, fostering better communication among flatmates and affordiability for student living.

Problem Statement

Many students and individuals face difficulties in managing shared living spaces efficiently. This includes challenges related to food, laundry, transportation, furniture/appliances need, home repairs, cleaning services and utility bill management. Uni-Hub aims to simplify and centralize these services by offering a comprehensive, affordable and round-the-clock solution making students’ living more convenient and enjoyable.

Target Audience 

  • College Students

  • Internship Students

  • People doing Jobs

  • Individual living in a rented space

  • Individual living in a shared rented space

UX Research

  • Secondary Research 

  • Mind Map 

  • Primary research (Questionnaire, Survey, Interview)

  • Affinity Mapping

  • User Persona

  • Empathy Mapping 

  • User Scenario

  • User Journey

  • How Might We Questions

  • Stakeholder Mapping

  • Task Flow 

  • User Flow

Secondary Research Insights and Mind-Map

Questionnaire (Survey And Interview)

Refined Questionnaire

  1. Age

  2. Gender

  3. From how long are you living in a flat/PG?

  4. What are your working hours (in college/office/or others)?

  5. Whom do you live with in your rented flat/PG?

  6. How many people share it?

  7. What all are the problems faced by you when you started living in a rented flat/PG/etc.?

    • Food​

    • ​Cleaning ​

    • Transport 

    • Storage issue

    • House Arranging

    • Home Repairs

    • Home Security 

    • Flatmate Conflicts

    • Time Managements

    • Managing Utility bill or keeping a track of bills

    • Less access to daily home requirements

    • Laundry

    • Lack of Furnishings

    • Hidden cost manangements (such as gas bills, water bills, garbage/etc.)

    • Monthly Economic problems 

  8. Follow up questions based on answers.  

Survey Responses

Affinity Mapping

Before Sorting

After Sorting

User Personas 

UX Persona (1).png

Empathy Mapping

User Scenario

Scenario :- 1

Parth has recently shifted to Mumbai as a job intern and is living in a rented flat with his two fellow officemates. They are all new to Mumbai and are here for the first time. All of them are working in the same office, and their working hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Since their office is a little far away, they use public transport to save money. They leave for their office from their flat together at 9.30 a.m. and are back by. 7.30 p.m.. 
Recently, for the first time, they have faced an issue with tap leakage in their common washroom. They have to get it repaired as soon as possible at a particular time since they all have their offices. 
When they asked neighbors and a social security person, they told them that plumbers don't come at night after 6 p.m. and before 11 a.m. 
They thought of using home repair services from certain apps and found the prices too high. Since they didn't have any options or knowledge about the pricing, they had to opt for a solution. 
After the service, the plumber asked them for more money based on what was quoted on the app. Also, the service was not good overall, leading to a bad experience.

Scenario :- 2

Niti is a second-year college student and is living with her college friends in a rented flat in Mangalore. They've been sharing a flat with five other friends for the past eight months. All of them are from different parts of the country. Since they are students and have a lot of college work to do, they have a cook at their place to cook food for them. The cook prepares two meals, i.e., lunch and dinner, for them. The cook has decided to make Idli Sambhar because the majority wants to eat it. Niti and one of her flatmates do not want to eat Idli Sambhar and want to have normal Chapati and Sabji, as they have been eating out for the past 2 days. No one wants to adjust and is not coming to any conclusions about having the same menu. According to the cook's conditions, he only prepares one dish. Since the others have a majority, the cook decided to prepare Idli Sambhar. Niti and her friends again decided to opt out to eat, but they couldn't get proper homemade food and found high prices for the same. The other thing that is bothering her is her monthly expenditure bills.
She is trying to find authentic, healthy homemade food and doesn't want to survive just on Maggie.

User Journey Mapping

How Might We (HMW) Questions

Stakeholder Mapping

Task Flow

User Flow

Navigation Flow

Information Architecture

Low Fidelity Wireframes 

The following UI is an execution of just 2 task flows from the ideation of an entire app.

Mid-Fidelity Wireframes 

Design System

Colour Palette

#FF5500

Primary :- Orange

#FFFFFF

Secondary :- White

#808080

Body :- Grey

Colour Style Guide

Typography

Nunito Typeface

Typography Style Guide

Grids and Spacing

Spacing :- 8pt Grid (using multiples of 8 to define dimensions, padding and margins of element)

Horizontal Grid

4 - Column Grid

Vertical Grid

8pt Grid

Combined Grid

Margin and Gutter

Margin :- 16pt    Gutter :- 8pt

Component Library

Final Screens

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