Adulting
A mobile personal assistant for young adults navigating independent life for the first time — consolidating tasks, habits, daily briefings, and memory-based suggestions into one place.
Role: UX Researcher & Prototype Designer
Tools: Miro, Figma, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve
Research board
My partner and I interviewed a total of 13 users (age 18-22) with 20+ questions. Explore the full card sort, affinity map, journey maps, and interview synthesis on the Miro board.
Key Interview Findings
Fragmented Systems
Users reported switching between multiple systems or relying on “keeping things in their head.”
This lack of a centralized organizational system creates friction in users’ daily routines.
Information spread across multiple platforms makes it more likely for important responsibilities to be forgotten or delayed.
Users would benefit from a unified platform that consolidates reminders, schedules, and tasks into one manageable system.
Cognitive Overload
One of the strongest recurring themes across interviews was feeling overwhelmed.
Users are not only struggling to remember tasks, but also to process and prioritize competing responsibilities.
The app will focus on reducing stress by simplifying information rather than increasing productivity pressure through excessive notifications or complex systems.
Operating Reactively
Current organizational systems fail to support proactive planning behaviors. Users often respond to responsibilities only after stress or urgency increases.
Users need proactive organizational support rather than reactive reminder systems.
There is an opportunity to support proactive organization through:
Recurring deadline forecasting,
Priority ranking,
And a once daily task pop-up.
Figma prototype
Watch the video for demos on Adulting’s 6 main user flows — scroll to explore each flow separately.
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Input user preferences
task road map
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