iContacts

What was handed to me

• App trying to solve everything
• Technological prototype (MVP)

Contact information sharing
and up-to-date information

For ease of sharing yours or others contact information, they can be also accessed via a URL. However, you're in control of who sees what information. For example, If you get the app you'd be able to see more information if the person have you in their Contacts. This also helps with conversion of non-App users.

Context-aware quick dial or message buttons

Big percentage of the users communicate using one or two apps max with most of their contacts. Though these apps might change from Contact to Contact. Therefore, there's a quick and easy to reach way of calling or messaging a person based on what you use the most with that particular person.
Taking mobile context into considerations, the quick contact options are changed based on access to internet connection, etc.

Problem solving

• Understand clients vision
• Understand and define the problem being solved and focused on.
• Creating unique features (selling points) for the problems
• Iterating and giving feedback on the UI design.
• Designing and simplifying the interaction
• Testing which features are desired more
• Testing the functional prototype
• Research and gain clarity of the users and the competition using creative guerilla techniques to respect the budget of a client

Conclusion

The client was satisfied with the simplification of the product and the UX after which iterative Visual design and development started that required consultation and review.

Unfortunately the project was not developed and published fully due to unfortunate death of the founder.

Contacts across different levels of connection

Collaborative Team feature was designed and simplified to:

• Organize contacts with other people
• Create a group of Like-minded people
• Create collaborative Lists of Contacts
• Quickly and easily give someone access or
  know the contact details of people in a
  Group chat, company, group, etc.

Organizing and finding Contacts

Making it easy to organize your contacts using a simple and accessible Tagging system. It's also used for filtering contacts and permissions discussed above.