High Level Vision

As described in my intro-post; I want to create an app that allows me to log productive time and then allow the exploration of cross-sections of that data. Data should be visualised in a mixture of numerical totals as well as graphics to efficiently provide a range of perspectives in one view.

Important metrics are:

• productive time
• planning time
• tasks attempted (started)
• tasks completed

Useful additional context:

• Task size
• Task complexity
• Task readiness (can be executed)

To achieve this a level of task-management will be needed to log time against tasks. However the ui should me nimble and easy to navigate. I do not want to re-create Jira or monday.com. A task should be quick to add and have the minimal information. Additional resources should be provided through links; for example; a work Jira task, an image, a website etc.

Vision Board

When designing and to communicate a vision to others; I find it helpful to create a vision/mood-board of related UIs/apps/experiences etc. These can be labeled to add flavour

Enticing data visualisation views from Strava and Smashrun. This new app should attempt to re-create this experience but for productivity

Requirements

When embarking on a project it's important to formalise requirements at the start. There's often alot of excited discussion between stakeholders, designers, engineers. But its amazing how peoples minds-eyes can differ when it feels like there's a common understanding and consensus.

Even as a one-man project; once embarked on all the technical details needed to build a project; the context and relative importance of requirements can be lost. Requirements are the way-points/the map to guide engineers and stakeholders through a project, and ultimately provides the finish-line to aim for..