Pain point
Hard to get everybody in a group to agree on a time.
"Invite—the easiest way to organize meetings on the go, it's designed to let you set up small events and group meetings with ease and across organizations."
–The Verge
In the early stages, I worked with the research team to find out users' needs and insights through talking and shadowing over 10 small business owners across west coast and east cost. We built prototypes to rapidly test our product direction with potential users to make sure that we were building match our users' need.
Hard to get everybody in a group to agree on a time.
Help users to easily set up a group meeting successfully while on the go.
Simple and intuitive. Be transparent and clear on info. Be professional and playful.
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Home
New meeting
To keep the meeting creation process simple and intuitive. It's designed based " Who, When and When will this event happen? " in one page. During the testing process, users loved this concept because it did not feel like writing a work email.
Time picker
Users can select multiple time slots from different days in the customized time picker. Research data shows 85% of the meeting created are 30min/1gr, therefore, a shorter bar was added (1st screen).
Follow up with attendees
When users open an invite they received (1st screen), they have the options to pick a time, check who is attending and chat with the attendees (2nd screen). When the invite is closed by the creator, the final time will be shown (3rd screen).
" Simple, human, efficient, business casual, personal" are the key words for the Invite branding.
Blue was picked as primary color to present business casual, also align with other Microsoft enterprise product branding color, the warm blue also gives user a more personal touch. Different shades of blue are defined for selected state, info bar, open/close invites, etc.
