We found that since the COVID pandemic, we have seen that parents have a hard time balancing managing their children at home while working from home. We wanted to solve the problem of 

“How can we create a daily structure for younger children that encourages good habits and independence?”

Turn chores into a game where kids complete tasks to earn redeemable points for rewards.

To conduct some research, my team interviewed four various user groups to identify the pain points of parents and kids. Through those interviews, we asked a series of questions to the each user group.

User Groups:

• Parents

• Younger Kids (6-13 years old)

• Older siblings (18-24 years old)

Example Questions for the Parents Group:

1. Do you often assign chores to your child? If not, why? 

2. If you do, what is usually their response? 

3. What are some problems you experience when it comes to assigning tasks to a young child if there are any?

4. How often do you let your child go on their phone/devices

5. What do you do if your child doesn’t want to do chores? 

Our key findings of these interviews are shown below. The one overlap between the parents’ pain points and the kids’ pain points is the kids lack of productivity. This means that we have to ensure that our application tackles the kids’ lack of productivity.

For our competitor analysis, we compared four various other applications that allowed parents to assign children chores and rewards to those who completed. We compared and analyzed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of other applications.

benefits of Honeycomb ↓

When developing the features that we wanted in our application, we focused on maximizing the benefits to both the parents and the children who will use the app. One of the benefits is that we use a point-based system which is more inclusive to families and allows children to make financial goals using their points. Another benefit of our app is that the children can connect with their friends and make social connections. The final benefit is that the whole family can be involved on one platform so the guardians can keep track of all of their children in one place.

Below: We designed our moodboard, selected our fonts and colors, and created our logo. We chose an inviting and warm color scheme so children will enjoy using the app.

Right: We also created a site map to visualize how we wanted our app to work. This was a crucial part for our team to clearly see what we needed to build and add in any missing important details.

Tasks tested for Kids & Teenagers:

• Log in as child

• View your tasks

• Complete a task to redeem reward

• View friends’ tasks

We analyzed the feedback from the testing and made iterations to the beta prototype. One of the changes included adding details about the point system to be between the parent and children. Another addition that we made was that we added a shop where the children can redeem their points for rewards that the parents choose to place in the shop. A concern that we received from user testing was how the points system would be standardized. We solved this problem by adding an awards guide for clarification.