Günther Beyer is a UX architect and man of pixels who makes strategy and design play nice.
Nino Rapin is a content strategist, information architect and word lover.
Together, they are half of Opoloo, a tiny, independent, headstrong digital studio in Germany. They care about crafting great experiences for the Web and Android.
In UX design, few things are more intricate than time and personal time management — only a good arsenal of mobile design patterns and information architecture principles can save you. This is the story of redesigning the UX for a popular calenda tool on Android: Business Calendar. We’ll cover designing systems, interaction design problems, scaling across screens and platforms, research, and big business decisions and their outcomes.
Business Calendar started out as a side project, a one-man show, and is now run by a team of eight in Berlin. The app was very successful right from the time Android entered the mainstream market, and it now has an active user base of 2 million. But instead of modernizing the design and usability regularly, the developers focused on implementing user requests and customization options.
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