ProdEase

ProdEase is a productivity app: It promotes studying and provides an accessible place for students in middle/high school - and college.

As demonstrated in our app, we have a timer, a to-do list, an about me page, and a study skills place. Productivity apps aren’t a new concept: we decided to add in a twist by providing study skills that students will find helpful.

Often, we find that the things we need are in different study apps (to-do lists, timers..etc). We decided to make it easier for students by including everything in one. We also included a page for study skills. Students don’t learn about these specific habits in school, and can only find them through social media. By dedicating a portion of our app to these skills, we are helping students stay on task!

This entire project was crafted entirely by my group members: we started off with little to no knowledge of coding to build a functional, accessible productivity app.

In our app, you may notice that there is both a home screen and a toolbar at the bottom. We decided to craft both of these to make it accessible for all individuals: those with vision disabilities may find it easier to have big boxes as a navigation tool rather than a small toolbar.

Though it may seem insignificant, we spent a lot of time researching our color scheme: we found that the color blue promotes productivity at a significant percentage difference from other colors.

Some challenges: 1) XCode would sometimes glitch for the main project’s owner so we had to copy and paste all of the code into a new repository. We found ways around it. Whenever it crashed, we would reclone XCode and replace the files 2) The preview malfunctioned so we kept having to restart Xcode 3) The timer was broken for a long time and it wouldn’t restart We tried a little every day to work on it and we eventually got it to work

Our accomplishments: 1) Finished our MVP in less than two days 2) Everyone is confused all the time, especially in a team. Our routine communication helped us navigate 3) We built a time and a to-do list without any help from our instructional team. In multiple scenarios, we struggled and wanted to give up, but we persisted and figured out how to get our timer to work.

Built With

• swift
• swiftui