Mindsharing App
Due to rising subscription costs for third-party software, I designed Mindsharing, an in-house decision-making tool to help facilitate our client-facing Vision Sessions. Mindsharing helps stakeholders ideate, comment on, and reach consensus around important guiding principles and strategic intent. Our Vision Sessions often comprise a diverse mix of leadership and staff, so allowing for anonymous idea generation and commenting ensures all voices are heard. Mindsharing allows each participant to add ideas from their individual computer and instantly view on their screen all ideas that have been added from the group. They can then comment on ideas, reply to comments, and like comments. Participants can then prioritize ideas and Mindsharing produces an aggregate ranking of all ideas.
Log-In Page
A custom design logo and tagline adorn this simple log-in page.
User Journey Map
Prototypes of comment interface
Wireframes and Prototypes
Mid-process wireframes and prototypes of Mindsharing components. The left image shows how the user would interact with the app. Users interact with the app in a myriad of ways, and their journey through the app needed to be intuitive. The right image explores different layouts for the comment boxes. I prioritized simple, intuitive designs utilizing UI best practices.
The first thing a user sees when logging in is a blank white-board prompting them to add an idea and an optional description.
This shows what a populated screen would look like. At a glance, participants can tell how many ideas there are and orient themselves in the work area (top right), they can see all ideas and the number of comments for each idea in a sortable list view (left), and they can see idea tiles with the ability to add a comment in the main work area (center).
When a user selects the comment button, the idea expands and they can see all existing comments, add a new comment, reply to an existing comment in a thread, or give a “like” an existing comment.
Users can reply to existing ideas in a thread.
Threads are organized to keep track of discussions around particular comments. Users can delete or edit ideas after they have been submitted.
Once a set of ideas has been discussed and finalized, participants can anonymously prioritize the ideas by allocating a certain number of points across all ideas. Once all users have submitted their prioritizations, Mindsharing presents an aggregated prioritization of all ideas. The result of this session is a decision-making guide, built by the participants and tied directly to their strategy, providing direction for the remaining engagement and beyond.
Facilitator Capabilities
With dozens of ideas flowing in simultaneously, it is inevitable that there will be some duplicate or similar ideas. The facilitator has unique capabilities to combine separate ideas into one unified idea. That combined idea will preserve comments and replies from both unique ideas.
