Dibs

The Problem

There is currently not a process or solution in which Umbrage employees can book a time in any of their four meeting/conference rooms. Google Calendar might work, but they prefer a solution they can control, modify to fit their brand, and meet their internal needs.

The Solution

We created Dibs as a solution to their problem. Dibs provides Umbrage employees and clients with a direct and customizable way to book any Umbrage meeting room at any time. Dibs is available on both desktop and mobile.

Umbrage Process.

Dibs is/was an apprentice project that would be made in house for Umbrage. We were give one week of defining and designing and two weeks of development and delivering. Below you will see the two phases in which we used to create dibs. Learn more about Umbrage's process.

Define & Design

Project Kickoff

Every Umbrage project starts with a kickoff meeting. PMs book most. Not knowing what room is booked is #1 complaint and hold up the most work.
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These are the three user personas we determined during project kickoff:

1. Umbrage Employees

Meeting with clients, crafts, leadership, or for company event

2. Clients of Umbrage

They should be able to be invited and see the meeting information via Dibs to Google Calendar

3. Umbrage Employees

Future scope should give them admin access to all of Dibs

Stakeholder Requirements

• Only Umbrage employee get access
• Integrate Google Calendar APIs
• Must include the four rooms and their amenities
• Similar functions, features, and input fields as Google Calendar

Product Flow

Every Umbrage project starts with a kickoff meeting.
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Lower Level Needs & Feature Log
• Login and Logout
• Book at least a 15min meeting in any of the four meeting rooms
• Add, delete, edit bookings
• Toggle between a 1-day and week view, later changed to 3-day view
• Pick any date

Minimal Viable Product

Explain what the MVP was and WHY we decided it was the MVP.

• Book at least a 15min meeting in any of the four meeting rooms, with booking information
• Add, Delete, Edit bookings
• Toggle between a 1-day and week view, later changed to 3-day view
• Pick and see room availability for any day of the year

Solution Wireframes

FindaFan will be a social app that provides an avenue for people to connect and either take that connection offline or stay within the app. To ensure I was focused on my MVP, most of the user flows were focused on finding and messaging a fellow fan.

Visual Design - Desktop Dibs

A break-down of the moodboard and the visual design.

• The design process for Dibs desktop was a collaborative effort between designers
• We realized visually displaying the week view for four rooms provided too much cognitive load, so we went with a 3-day view.I lead the design of
• Dibs’ overall design and layout, the entire top toolbar, and booking previews.

Develop and Deliver

My role in developing Dibs

Development support
Design voice in sprint planning, reviews, and retros
Design voice is backlog grooming
Design mobile Dibs
The development of Dibs took a total of three sprints