Daily UX Challenge

UX Challenge: Find my way around a new town.

UX Challenge: Find my way around a new town Preface Whether your traveling or just moved to a new city, it’d be nice to have your bearings and know what opportunities there are. Pulling out maps from the rest stop are only so relevant and don’t always provide enough information, searching the web for options can be time consuming and only...

UX Challenge: Design a personalized jobsite

UX Challenge: Design a personalized jobsite Preface Jobsites today suck. Every time I am looking for a job, I have to search for jobs in the area of my expertise and filter through each job I am interested in and then apply to each of them. I wish there was just a simple text box in which I just enter “I am looking for an Engineering Manage...

UX Challenge: Design a service that tracks open rate for direct mail marketing.

UX Challenge: Design a service that tracks open rate for direct mail marketing Preface Snail-Mail marketing works, however, the tracking sucks. If marketers could find a way to track opens of mails, they would be improve their strategy way better. Here are some stats from 2017 for mail marketing: [ # # Direct Mail Still Gets the Best Response Direct mail household response rate....

UX Challenge: Design AI Controller Social Smart Kitchen

UX Challenge: Design AI Controlled Social Smart Kitchen Preface Today’s kitchen requires a lot of manual work and planning for a given meal, but the future might be different. The kitchen as we know it, will be replaced by a AI controlled system that will cook meals for us. This opens up possibility of a social smart kitchen, where you could simply wis...

UX Challenge: Re-Imagine Password Authentication System

UX Challenge: Re-Imagine Password Authentication System Preface: Every time I have to login into a website that asks me a password, I cringe. Password seems so primitive. Why do I have to remember hundred different passwords to hundred different websites? Why can’t I simply login to the website. If I am on a website, it should simply have a button on i...

New UX Challenge: Design a workplace of the future.

UX Challenge: Workplace of the future Preface: We are not mobilizing the entire population to work efficiently. In developing countries and some developed countries, women are left behind in the workforce once they become parents. There is a substantial economic cost we pay by not having parents back into the workforce as quickly as pos...

Latest UX Challenge: Copy Text From Computer

UX Challenge: Copy Text From Computer Preface: Sometimes I wish there was an easier way to copy the URL or some text from my computer to my mobile phone. Right now if my laptop and phone are not signed in through same Apple ID then I have to manually type in the text in my notes/safari app. However I think there is an easier painless wa...

UX Challenge: Waste food pickup

UX Challenge: Waste Food Pickup Preface: We have many organizations that can efficiently recycle leftover food or redistribute it to the needy. But these organizations don’t have decent pickup means that will bring the food to them. We have many food delivery services like UberEats, DoorDash, Postmates, etc., but we don’t have...

UX Challenge: Design Idol-less sanctum

Challenge: Idol-less worship Preface: There are many religions in the world in which it prohibited to do idol worship. Even then the followers of the faith would like to establish an idol in their places of worship. E.g., Buddhism doesn’t recommend idol worship, but if you go to any Buddhist temple, you would see the idols of...

UX Challenge: Eliminate Texting While Driving

Challenge: Eliminate Texting While Driving Preface: No matter how hard we try, there is always a temptation to reach out to our phones while driving. That tiny little notification, that incomplete text message in the notification bar, always pushes us to open up the phone when we are behind the wheel. Here are general cell phone statistics :...

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Challenge: Rethink Wallet/Phone/Car Keys Preface: Whenever I am going out I always have to carry three things: Keys to my car Phone Wallet Problem: I feel all these things bloat up my trousers and somewhere at the back of my mind I stay uncomfortable carrying them. I feel if I could just walk out without the need to carry at least one thin...