Usability Report

Severe Issues: 

1. Lack of clear visual hierarchy: users struggled with knowing where to focus first, especially on the progress page and profile. There is currently too much clutter. 

Plan: Reduce card usage, emphasize key elements with size and spacing, and nest less important components. Utilize white space!

2. Confusion around reading screens: users didn’t fully understand what a reading session is or what happens when they complete one.

Plan: Improve the onboarding process, add tooltips or short explanations, and clarify how progress is logged. 

3. Progress tracking is unclear and needs more immediate feedback: users want to see exactly what they’ve read, rather than just abstract progress stats. 

Plan: display books and articles read, improve immediate progress indicators beyond the “wrapped” feature

 

Moderate Issues: 

1. The call to action button placement and size: the action button isn’t prominent enough and its position isn’t optimal. 

Plan: Center the button more, increase the size, and swap its position with the streak tracker 

2. Font size and readability: some text is too small, like the time of day options and easy/medium/hard labels. 

Plan: Increase font sizes in key areas and improve contrast for better readability

 

Trivial Issues: 

1. Minor UI tweaks: remove hover effects on mobile, add an “X” to remove blocked apps, and adjust button and text sizes for consistency

Plan: Fix mobile-specific UI and refine layout details 

2. Terminology Adjustments: “screen time” should be called “reading time” to better reflect the app’s purpose 

Plan: Update text across the app for clarity



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