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The Favorite

Organization app for co-parents

Year 2024
Roles UX Designer · Product Owner · Full-stack Developer
Stack Ruby on Rails · Bootstrap · Figma
Challenge

Build a full app in two weeks with a squad of 4 junior developers, despite losing one third of the team at kickoff.

Results

80% of testers expressed interest in downloading as a native app. 55% said they were ready to pay for the service.

Context

Parents who share responsibility for children — whether in a couple or separated — face doubled mental load and relationship tensions caused by disorganized task sharing.

Solution

An interface to centralize and better distribute tasks, with humor and fun. “The Favorite” offers a humorous take on the burden of parenthood — parents work as a real team while competing against each other.

Methodology

Design Thinking for product ideation. Scrum for development. Atomic Design to align front-end architecture and UI design.

Process

Epic/User Stories drove back-end developments. Atomic Design allowed alignment of front-end architecture and UI design. Prioritization based on user tests conducted on a functional prototype. Figma prototype The Favorite app The Favorite app: Figma Prototype

Main learning

Taking a little time to reduce uncertainty in specs means saving a lot of time in development.