To gain deeper insights, my manager and UX Team conducted an on-site visit to observe how employees interacted with our app in a real-world environment.

During the visit, I closely observed employees as they navigated the app while performing their daily tasks. It became evident that many employees were, indeed, using the app with one hand while holding items in the other. Observing employees use the app with one hand while holding items confirmed the need for our project to minimize interactions and enhance usability for Single-Handed Mode ✋

During the visit, by talking to the warehouse employees, we discovered that issues extended beyond the home screen to the confusing iconography. Many icons did not have clear meanings. In a warehouse setting, there are much more complicated tasks like "Inbound", "Outbound", "Inventory count", and many others, which the current iconography does not adequately represent. This confusion worsened delays and hindered efficiency.

The in-depth evaluation of the current iconography was conducted. The pain points being identified include varying visual weights disrupt the hierarchy and ambiguity in representation causes confusion, resulting in errors and delays

Sketching various ideas helped shape the design decisions. I analyzed each icon for its visual style and meaning, following my mentor's recommendations.

I realized the importance of having a standardized design system to make the icons look consistent. My mentor recommended examining some well-known design system libraries like Fluent Design System by Microsoft and Carbon Design System by IBM. Inspired by these, I developed comprehensive iconography guidelines.

The guidelines break down the construction of an icon, including aspects such as visual weight, line weight, and line break corners. They ensure that all icons maintain a uniform appearance and are easily recognizable. These guidelines covered:
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‍Visual Weight: Ensuring each icon maintains a balanced visual weight, making them easily identifiable at a glance.
‍Line Weight: Standardizing the line thickness across all icons to create a cohesive look.
‍Corners and Line Breaks: Defining the radius for rounded corners and the style for line breaks to ensure consistency.
‍Symbol Clarity: Making sure each icon clearly represents its function, especially for complex warehouse tasks like inbound, outbound, and inventory count.
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➡️ Creating these guidelines not only improved the current project but also provided a framework for future design consistency within the company.

I conducted user interviews from employees in the warehouse to gather feedback, guaranteeing that the icons were not only visually appealing but also intuitive and user-friendly. Conducted interviews with warehouse employees to ensure the icons were visually appealing and user-friendly. The process involved multiple iterations and feedback loops. I collaborated closely with the UX Design & Developer team to make necessary adjustments and improvements, ensuring that the icons met the project's objectives.

After four weeks of work and mentorship and through several iterations, the redesigned icon system was finalized. The new icons received a lot of positive feedback. Some icons were redesigned with the branded "Nu" logo, indicating Nuuly's branding identity.The transformation included:
Incorporating Nuuly Branding: The redesigned icons featured the "Nu" logo, which reinforced brand identity and familiarity among users.
Enhanced Clarity and Functionality: Each icon was meticulously crafted to ensure it accurately represented its function.
User-Centric Design: Feedback from warehouse employees was integral to the redesign process, ensuring the icons were intuitive and user-friendly.

Similar to the iconography redesign, I began a UX audit to evaluate all the pros and cons of the current interface to understand why it was difficult for users to interact with one hand. After a thorough evaluation, I identified several key issues and suggested solutions:

❌ Menu Complexity: The current interface had multiple layers of menus, making it difficult for users to quickly access frequently used features.
➡️ Simplifying Menu Structure: I proposed a more streamlined menu with fewer layers, allowing users to access key features with fewer taps.

❌ Small Touch Targets: Buttons and interactive elements were too small, leading to frequent accidental taps.
➡️ Enlargering Touch Targets: I redesigned buttons and interactive elements to be larger and more spaced out, reducing accidental taps.

❌ Poor Gesture Support: The interface lacked support for gestures, which are essential for one-handed use.
➡️ Enhancing Gesture Integration: I incorporated swipe and tap gestures to make navigation more intuitive and suited for one-handed use.

I created sketches and wireframes to outline the new layout and structure of the interface. These low-fidelity designs allowed me to quickly identify and address potential usability issues.

Following the wireframes, I developed a high-fidelity prototype incorporating the new design elements and user flows. This prototype was tested extensively to ensure it met the project's objectives.

To test which layout would achieve faster access with one-handed interaction, I evaluated two different interactions: swiping versus scrolling. To test my hepothesis, I conducted an interaction testing to compare two menu prototype options and masure their performance. The protype was tested 20 times based on three hands' length sizes:  6" (Small), 7.35" (Medium) and 9.8" (Large)

The below videos were recorded from the Small hand testing.​However, the overall results show that one option emerged as notably faster. The Swiping options show to be from 0.8~1 second faster than the Scrolling option. This testing provides general understanding on our direction to redesign the interface.
➡️ Swiping allowed users to navigate more efficiently, reducing the time required to access different features and minimizing accidental taps.

Through multiple design iterations and user testing, we refined the prototype to improve usability. We simplified the menu display and allowed users to navigate via swiping and tapping. After revising several design iterations, our team decided to simply the menu display, as well as allowing users to have both interactions to navigate between screens: Swiping and Tapping