Just Care For Families

Just Care for Families is a companion app for a Oregan family program that helps parents build strong, healthy, and rewarding relationships with their children.

Methods
Product Design
Client
Just Care For Families
Duration
6 months
Tools
Figma, Figjam
Product
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Goal is to create a companion app to their successful Just Care program and were brought in to refine the UX, UI and release into the App Store.

This project had already gone through a phase, but lost funding. After regaining funding they came back to Twenty Ideas to complete the project. This resulted in no Discovery phase but isntead focus on the User Journey and User Experience.

WIth the research already complete, we collaborated with the client to complete the flows, definitions, feature scope and app structure.

To kick start the project we were given the previous Figma file and a pamphlet of their program. We were able to use those designs to gain an understanding of the experience the client wanted. We proposed a few changes and used user journeys to share our recommendations.

One of the challenges of this product was the translation of the program. The client had big ideas but we needed to ensure it was all within reasonable scope. In the end we simplified their activities, some of the itneractive elements, and combined certain role permissions.

Design and development working in parallel meant wireframes were the handoff. We had daily syncs and demos to ensure everyone was on the same page as changes occured.

Development  was able to build the structure of the product by using the wireflows. I was given extra time to polish the UI. Using prebuilt components, I was able to quickly get the components built and in the app for delivery. This is where our development team was able to work without final designs, they were using Claude Code to easily update the in-app wireframes to the polished UI components.

Conclusion

Once I was finished with my role, I was on standby for any questions from design or engineering while I proceeded to my next project. The working prototype was delivered on time. The algorithm and functional app were delivered one month after initial proposed deadline due to a late-game feature push involving additional user permissions and admin controls.

The app is being used today by the program with great success. They were able to receive another government grant to continue to expand their product features which our team is currently working on.

Want to learn more about this project? Reach out!  kristina@sketchytrails.com