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ENTERPRISE APP
Mindsharing App
A concept for a collaborative brainstorming tool that enables distributed teams to capture, organize, and build on ideas in real time, combining the spontaneity of whiteboarding with the structure of a shared knowledge base.
ROLE
Product Designer
TYPE
Concept | Side Project
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
Mindsharing App Login Screen
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.
Interaction Map
WIREFRAMES & PROTOTYPES
Wireframes of comment interfaces
The design prioritizes speed of input above all else. During an active session, every tap should add an idea — not navigate a menu. Structure is applied after capture, not before. This inversion of the typical tool paradigm (where you set up categories, then fill them) was the core design insight.
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.
DESIGN
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.