TakeTask is a business tool aimed at performing a variety of tasks such as. surveys, audits, and sales, anywhere in the world, by your employees or external communities like your customers, business partners or independent TakeTask users.

With TakeTask, your smartphone becomes a powerful tool for training as well as performing and reporting on tasks

A mobile app allowing the user to undertake specific tasks, different each time, in specific locations. Sounds like quite a challenge, yes? Complex processes, flexible components, two platforms, diverse target group. Bring it on!

After our offer won the contest organized to determine who will design TakeTask, we enthusiastically took to work. For a few days we transferred our minds into cyberspace, scouring google and apple stores, and burning the batteries of our mobiles. We read, tested, compared and discussed. All the information gathered in this campaign were presented to the client in form of a long report, consisting of benchmark analysis of direct and indirect competition. Everything was covered in it, from functionalities, through data architecture, to user satisfaction examples and styles.

As mentioned above, we started with a benchmark analysis. We gathered over twenty services similar to what we were about to design, and after taking a closer look decided that… Well, we will be better off if we will base our project on our own ideas. To say it lightly, the products were not intuitive, and were for some reason fond of showing the user what cannot be done and what cannot happen. Not something we wanted with TakeTask.

Spending time on research and analysis turned fairly quickly but naturally into working on first prototypes and mockups, presenting our first ideas for looks and solutions. But that was only the beginning of a the laborious undertaking that was Take Task. Among other things, it consisted of the following:

We knew that creating a simple and intuitive app for two platforms at the same time was a waste of that time. And with the width and breath of the task at hand, time was not an easy commodity. So, we decided to use a unified interface, combining the needs and abilities of both platforms. At the same time, we wanted to maintain maximum ergonomics, adapting the interface to the necessary interactions so that it would stay comfortable and intuitive.

Deep analysis of requirements, first drafts and meetings with the client showed us a number of extreme situations, but such that could not be overlooked, that were not obvious on the first sight. Small, unique, individual functions and results kept harassing our flanks and threatened to overcome our lines. At the same time we knew that on the other side of the whole TakeTask process was the Task Scenario Generator, which we wanted to keep as consistent with the mobile app as possible. Flexibility of the color code was also an important issue. The app was supposed to be possible to modify as a white label version for B2B.

Basic premise of TakeTask mobile app – the user is doing tasks in exchange for prizes. Thus, he or she need to see the tasks in their nearest vicinity. Therefore, the starting screen of the app shows a map with a small number (minimum of three) tasks near the user.

There are also two, interchangeable ways of navigation – via pins with prizes on the map, or a list of tasks at the bottom of the screen.

The map shows tasks with varying states. Active, started, freshly added or special ones, requiring training to begin them. Users has a limited amount of time to complete their mission. Tasks occuring in specific locations also have to be presented.

It was not easy to combine it all, but we victory was ours in the end!

Designing the TakeTask app was tough work, requiring the full spectrum of our skills. Even then, the final effect could not have been achieved without the com awesome computing power of In’saneLab web design and development studio. While we spent days and nights on drawing, analysis and designing flows and graphics, they worked really hard to turn our visions and projects into reliable, working products. Together, with hard work, we achieved the effects we are both very happy from.