AI-Driven Mobile Productivity App Design

Adrian Stoian

đź“‹ Task

Design and develop a mobile productivity app integrating AI-driven features to help users plan, prioritize, and track their daily tasks. The goal was to create a seamless and engaging experience that combines task management, smart suggestions, and productivity analytics, while maintaining a clean, friendly, and highly accessible design.

📌 Challenges

Integrating AI Recommendations into the UI
Making AI-driven suggestions (e.g., breaks, focus times) visible and useful without disrupting the user’s workflow.
2. Balancing Data Visualization and Simplicity
Ensuring productivity reports provide valuable insights (productivity scores, completed tasks, focus time) without overwhelming the user with too much information.
3. Maintaining a Playful but Professional Tone
Designing a visual style that feels motivating and friendly, but still appeals to productivity-focused professionals.
4. Optimizing for Quick Task Input
Allowing users to add and update tasks in just a few taps while keeping the flow intuitive.

âś… Solutions

AI-Driven Planning & Suggestions
Integrated AI recommendations directly into the dashboard (e.g., “Plan your next 3 hours” or “Take a 45-min break”), using bold visuals and clear CTAs to encourage action.
2. Modular Component System
Built reusable UI components (task cards, analytics widgets, progress meters) for consistent design and faster iteration.
3. Friendly Character Integration
Designed a mascot to appear in contextual moments (planning board, encouraging messages, focus mode) to boost engagement.
4. Compact but Insightful Reports
Created a “Full Report” screen summarizing daily performance — tasks completed, most productive hour, focus time, breaks — with easy-to-read charts and scores.

👨🏻‍💻 Contributions

Defined the UX flow from onboarding to daily task management.
Designed interactive dashboards and focus mode screens.
Created data visualization widgets for productivity tracking.
Developed an AI suggestion framework within the UI.
Designed a mascot for user motivation and feature guidance.
Conducted user testing to refine task creation and report layouts.

Understanding Users, Defining Solutions

Grounded in user research and guided by design principles, these insights shaped the features and experience of Focus AI.

Bringing Ideas to Life

Here’s how the research and principles came together into a clean, functional interface.

📚 Lessons Learned

Designing for Simplicity Drives Engagement
Prioritizing a clean and intuitive interface encouraged users to interact more consistently with the app and reduced onboarding friction.
2. Personalization Boosts User Retention
Implementing AI-driven recommendations and tailored daily challenges significantly improved user motivation and long-term retention.
3. Balancing Gamification and Productivity
Integrating progress tracking, streaks, and small rewards enhanced engagement without distracting from core productivity goals.
4. Consistency Enhances Usability
Maintaining consistent patterns, components, and visual language across the app reduced cognitive load and improved user confidence.
5. Data Visualization Encourages Self-Reflection
Providing clear, concise productivity reports empowered users to track their performance and make informed changes to their routines.
6. Empty States Are an Opportunity
Designing friendly, actionable empty states turned moments of inactivity into chances to guide and inspire the user.
7. Small Details Build Delight
Micro-interactions, smooth transitions, and a friendly mascot added personality, making the app feel more human and approachable.
8. Continuous Feedback Fuels Improvement
Gathering user feedback early and often allowed us to refine features, fix pain points quickly, and align updates with real user needs.
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Posted Sep 13, 2025

Designed and developed a mobile productivity app with AI features for task management.

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Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025

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