Ontrack: Designing a Frictionless Task-Tracking ExperienceOntrack: Designing a Frictionless Task-Tracking Experience
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Dilan Omer
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• 1d
My thought process for Ontrack was to build a task app that made sense for how people keep track of the work they do.
Unfortunately, too many times most task apps forced you into a pattern of spending time micromanaging them over a seamless experience of keeping track of your goals and the work that needed to be done in a fashion that felt fluid and intuitive.
I designed Ontrack around that hypothesis yet I still ran into bottlenecks that blocked the aimed fluidity of a productivity app that felt truly useful.
To address the issues, I've been experimenting new approaches that push the limits of creating a frictionless experience, and a productivity app that actually helps you be productive without the overhead.
You can read about some of my research around Ontrack here: https://dilanomer.com/projects/ontrack-treating-task-paralysis Below, Ontrack as it currently stands, and a proposed version of addressing the current bottlenecks
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Akorede Ibrahim
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Framing it as treating task paralysis, not storing tasks, is sharper than how most to-do apps start. I ran into a version of this designing Amanah, an app for recording debts: the topic carries stigma, so the flow had to feel calm and private before it could feel complete. The...
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