🏆 7shifts x Brainstation hackathon winners 🏆

It shouldn’t be this hard to schedule shifts.

Optimizing 7shifts' product to meet the needs of new clients.

💼 Meet the client!

7shifts is a team management platform for hospitality professionals providing services from hiring, to scheduling to retention.

My Team

UX Designers

Software Engineers

Data Scientists

My Role

UX Researcher

UX Designer

UI Designer

Timeline

24 hours

The Problem

“Our current scheduling solution is not as effective for mid market clients with 200 - 300 employees.”

- 7shifts Representative

which leads us to the question…

which leads us to the question…

which leads us to the question…

How might we help mid-market restaurant managers schedule shifts more efficiently?

How might we help mid-market restaurant managers schedule shifts more efficiently?

How might we help mid-market restaurant managers schedule shifts more efficiently?

24 hours remain

🚨 The First Hour 🚨

I felt wary of delivering a solution-driven product.

Okay maybe it wasn’t as dramatic as depicted, but there were a lot of solutions, ideas and directions being discussed amongst the team.

So I proposed we put ourselves in the shoes of our users.

So I proposed we put ourselves in the shoes of our users.

So I proposed we put ourselves in the shoes of our users.

23 hours remain

👨‍💼 We Started a Restaurant! 👩‍💼

We decided to conduct an audit of the current process of creating schedules as if we were mid market restaurant managers with 200 - 300 employees.

Want to know what empathy looks like?

Want to know what empathy looks like?

Want to know what empathy looks like?

Do I just have to make like 200 of these?

Do I just have to make like 200 of these?

Do I just have to make like 200 of these?

Okay I think I get the problem now.

Okay I think I get the problem now.

Okay I think I get the problem now.

Wait, isn’t there a faster way?

Wait, isn’t there a faster way?

Wait, isn’t there a faster way?

Want to feel like a mid-market manager creating their first schedule template?

Just let this GIF play 200 - 300 times
Adding just a few shifts makes you realize...

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This is going to take a while.

⏱ 18,000 seconds…

FIVE HOURS

That’s how long it would take to manually create my first schedule template for 200 shifts if everything went PERFECTLY.

Realistically, a manager would need to also consider a number of other factors such as:

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There’s got to be a better way!

22 hours remain

What about an Onboarding Flow?

A number of ideas were considered but ultimately we landed on an “Onboarding” flow that would contextualize and deliver Smart Templates for schedules based on your personalized inputs.

A number of ideas were considered but ultimately we landed on an “Onboarding” flow that would contextualize and deliver Smart Templates for schedules based on your personalized inputs.

A number of ideas were considered but ultimately we landed on an “Onboarding” flow that would contextualize and deliver Smart Templates for schedules based on your personalized inputs.

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Dinner Break

17 hours remain

Midnight Sketching

We wanted to make sure wireframes would be ready for the software engineers in the morning in order to hit the ground running the next day. That meant that we were probably going to stay up a bit…

Onboarding Questions
Smart Template Output

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Dreaming about wireframes

10 hours remain

🌅 Time to wireframe and prototype

By morning, we had the wireframes ready for the developers, who got to work on coding and bringing our solution to life.

7 hours remain

7 hours remain

Handing off to the devs

Handing off to the devs

As we met up on campus in the morning, we were able to communicate our wireframes and prototype to our amazing software developers who did an amazing job coding in the time that we had! I was able to touch base with them often as they were building out our product!

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0 hours remaining

Time to present!

Smart Templates

What does this mean for our mid-market managers?
5+ hours 5 minutes

Time saved: 98%

Time saved: 98%

Time saved: 98%

Reflecting after the fact…

⏳👨🏾‍💻 Working Under Pressure

⏳👨🏾‍💻 Working Under Pressure

⏳👨🏾‍💻 Working Under Pressure

Though challenging, it was a really satisfying experience to have to problem solve and make decisions while up against the clock!

💼 Real-life Scenario

💼 Real-life Scenario

💼 Real-life Scenario

At the end of all of this, I’m incredibly proud of Smart Templates, as it is a very viable and real solution to a real problem for a real business!

🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️ Teamwork

🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️ Teamwork

🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️ Teamwork

It was really cool to work cross-discipline as a team, especially getting to iterate and go back and forth with the software developers

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