I had a productive week. After a long hiatus, I've eased myself into working on RelateWell again. Almost every day, I've been going to the coworking space with a friend and putting in around 8 hours of work. I started by working on smaller, more fun pieces, like investigating and testing the Sinch API for phone verification and sending SMS messages.

After that, I took on one of the bigger tasks I had identified — redesigning the feedback entry interface. This is arguably one of the most important parts of the UI because users will spend a lot of time here. The first version was just a list of all possible feedback categories, and the user was supposed to browse through all the categories and items, then select the feedback that applied to the recipient. This process wasn’t intuitive and involved a lot of extra taps, taking users in and out of the categories. I wanted to make the process simpler and more intuitive.

The new UI does away with the hierarchy and just serves the user pieces of feedback one by one. The app will now prioritize and guess which piece of feedback the user might want to select. This logic will be basic in the beginning, but after I collect some real-world data, I’ll be able to make it smarter and much more predictive. With this new UI, the user can easily see their progress and understand what is expected of them.