CheckMate
CheckMate
CheckMate
2022 Case Study, UXL Finalist Pitch
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Introduction
Checkmate is a design-sprint project completed for UXL 2022. Our team was challenged to ideate, design, and pitch a digital solution to exploring and "unlocking" curiosity.
Role
Ideation, UI Design, Logo & Branding, User Research, Journey Map, User Persona.
Timeline
The following case was developed over the span of a 48 hours.
Team
Michael Malatesta
Aryamik Kakar
Interpreting the Brief
How Might We encourage curiosity by making the analysis of information feel more seamless, engaging, and trustworthy.
Introduction
Checkmate is a design-sprint project completed for UXL 2022. Our team was challenged to ideate, design, and pitch a digital solution to exploring and "unlocking" curiosity.
Role
Ideation, UI Design, Logo & Branding, User Research, Journey Map, User Persona.
Timeline
The following case was developed over the span of a 48 hours.
Team
Michael Malatesta
Aryamik Kakar
Interpreting the Brief
How Might We encourage curiosity by making the analysis of information feel more seamless, engaging, and trustworthy.
Introduction
Checkmate is a design-sprint project completed for UXL 2022. Our team was challenged to ideate, design, and pitch a digital solution to exploring and "unlocking" curiosity.
Role
Ideation, UI Design, Logo & Branding, User Research, Journey Map, User Persona.
Timeline
The following case was developed over the span of a 48 hours.
Team
Michael Malatesta
Aryamik Kakar
Interpreting the Brief
How Might We encourage curiosity by making the analysis of information feel more seamless, engaging, and trustworthy.
Introduction
Checkmate is a design-sprint project completed for UXL 2022. Our team was challenged to ideate, design, and pitch a digital solution to exploring and "unlocking" curiosity.
Role
Ideation, UI Design, Logo & Branding, User Research, Journey Map, User Persona.
Timeline
The following case was developed over the span of a 48 hours.
Team
Michael Malatesta
Aryamik Kakar
Interpreting the Brief
How Might We encourage curiosity by making the analysis of information feel more seamless, engaging, and trustworthy.
Creating A Clever Way to Keep Up With Vocabulary Trends
No, we can't use urban dictionary
No, we can't use urban dictionary
“I read documents with loads of unique acronyms that I can’t keep up with on a near daily basis.”
- [Private], Accenture
The key ingredients of the feeling of overload which are still with us today: ‘the multitude of books, the shortness of time and the slipperiness of memory’ - Ann Blair, 2011
Result:
Vocabulary Scan
Vocabulary Scan
Scans for proper nouns in an article & converts them to hyperlinks.
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The Vocabulary Scan picks up proper nouns in an article, within set filters, and converts them to hyperlinks. When hovered over displays a toolbar with relevant details and a pin button that saves the term for later reference.
Research Shows Most Consumers Are Concerned About Fake News:
Let's Cut Through the BS
“It’s only getting more difficult for me to find the time to check the validity of things I see online ”
- Bill, Athennian
More than 70% of U.S. news consumers are concerned about “fake news” - Deloitte Digital Media Trends Study, 2021
Result:
Simplify Scan
Live highlight visually separates verified facts, opinion, & quotes.
The Simplify Scan feature breaks down an article into categories such as verifiable facts, opinions, or quotes. Visually represented by live, in page highlights. These highlights, similar to the Vocabulary Scan links, will display a toolbar with relevant details and pin functionality.
Information Overload Makes Learning Intimidating and Tedious to Repeat
“Doing research is the fun part, organizing it is what I find annoying” - Adam, Student
Information overload is a decisive factor driving negative “work environments [that] are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy”
- Dean and Webb, 2011
Result:
Compile & Download
Collect session findings in an auto-generated glossary
The Compile & Download feature collects all pinned content from Vocabulary and Simplify Scans, and organizes & transfers it into a downloadable PDF file. Creating an automatically generated glossary of content relevant to the user.
User Persona
Journey Map
Jamie Ackerman
Jamie is a journalism student beginning her professional career. Her curiosity drives her to constantly explore new topics on the web. As Jamie takes pride in presenting credible work, she's beginning to feel deterred by the increasing amount of misinformation shared online.
Jamie wants to continue to explore the content that interests her and inspires her journalism career, but needs a way to save time when analyzing information online; as she lacks the technical expertise to constantly compile the large quantities of digital information she references.
Artifacts
User Persona
Journey Map
User Persona
Journey Map
Jamie Ackerman
Jamie is a journalism student beginning her professional career. Her curiosity drives her to constantly explore new topics on the web. As Jamie takes pride in presenting credible work, she's beginning to feel deterred by the increasing amount of misinformation shared online.
Jamie wants to continue to explore the content that interests her and inspires her journalism career, but needs a way to save time when analyzing information online; as she lacks the technical expertise to constantly compile the large quantities of digital information she references.
User Persona
Journey Map
Jamie Ackerman
Jamie is a journalism student beginning her professional career. Her curiosity drives her to constantly explore new topics on the web. As Jamie takes pride in presenting credible work, she's beginning to feel deterred by the increasing amount of misinformation shared online.
Jamie wants to continue to explore the content that interests her and inspires her journalism career, but needs a way to save time when analyzing information online; as she lacks the technical expertise to constantly compile the large quantities of digital information she references.
Future Iterations
Future
Iterations
Pursuing the integration of artificial intelligence would help Checkmate better suggest information that fits the context of the webpage. For example, understanding the difference between Apple (Fruit) and Apple (Company).
If developing Checkmate, we'd remove its ability to determine facts, opinions, and quotes. While this idea may work in some hard and fast cases, It can sometimes be difficult to draw a line in what is fact vs opinion. Instead, we would focus on its ability to intelligently hyperlink and glossarize valuable information on any and all webpages.
Pursuing the integration of artificial intelligence would help Checkmate better suggest information that fits the context of the webpage. For example, understanding the difference between Apple (Fruit) and Apple (Company).
If developing Checkmate, we'd remove its ability to determine facts, opinions, and quotes. While this idea may work in some hard and fast cases, It can sometimes be difficult to draw a line in what is fact vs opinion. Instead, we would focus on its ability to intelligently hyperlink and glossarize valuable information on any and all webpages.
Project Takeaways
Project Takeaways
Faced with constraints, it becomes crucial to make strategic decisions about which features to prioritize for development.
By prioritizing and making strategic decisions, even with limited time and resources, we can create solutions that have meaningful impact on the user experience and successfully addresses the challenges faced by the target users.
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Research Shows Most Consumers Are Concerned About Fake News:
Let's Cut Through the BS
“It’s only getting more difficult for me to find the time to check the validity of things I see online ”
- Bill, Athennian
More than 70% of U.S. news consumers are concerned about “fake news” - Deloitte Digital Media Trends Study, 2021
Result:
Simplify Scan
Live highlight visually separates verified facts, opinion, & quotes.
The Simplify Scan feature breaks down an article into categories such as verifiable facts, opinions, or quotes. Visually represented by live, in page highlights. These highlights, similar to the Vocabulary Scan links, will display a toolbar with relevant details and pin functionality.
Information Overload Makes Learning Intimidating and Tedious to Repeat
Romance scams were the second most reported crime to the FBI in 2019.
- WFN Design Prompt
682 victims lost over $19 million to scammers pretending to be in love [by] using fake profiles on social media and popular dating apps [to] gain the trust of their victims.
- 2019, the Canadian
Anti-Fraud Center
Result:
Compile & Download
Real Stories Emphasize Real Risks & Helps Prevent Embarrassment Felt by Victims
SeniorSecure encourages proactive learning by allowing users to learn from relatable individuals while providing TD points as an incentive that can be used to redeem rewards with monetary value.
