UniDrive

UniDrive is a web application our team of six built for our client at Sandia National Labs to provide Google Drive users a central file organizational structure for all of their Google Drive accounts.

Languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Frameworks: React JS
APIs: Google Drive API
Other Tools: GIT, GitHub, Figma
Period: Jan. 2020 - Nov. 2020

The Problem:

Google Drive and the Google office web applications are a frequent collaboration mechanism for distributed teams. The easily accessible drive, the ability to share, and the sufficiently functional office web apps makes using other options a difficult choice. The difficulty arises when a person has many such collaborations, including different years for a project each being under a different drive. With all of these places to look for files, it becomes tedious.

Phase 1: Planning, Preparation, and Research

Client Charter - established a shared understanding between the client and our team for the project in terms of both of our responsibilities
Vision Statement - the main motivation, target users, and constraints for the project
User Research - explained our key questions and issues, choices of research methodologies, and key findings
User Stories + Acceptance Criteria - established a set of minimum marketable features to make up the minimum viable Product
Low Fidelity UI Prototype - created a paper prototype of the user interface
UX Report - received critic from ourselves, our peers, instructors, and client by testing our prototype against a set of heuristics (heuristic evaluation)
Initial Prototype - creating a demo of the product and a final presentation for our client

Low Fidelity Prototype

Digital Prototype

We created our digital prototype for our project in Figma which can be seen here: https://www.figma.com/file/Fz6RCL1chYVQEcKkPPqcSW/UniDrive?node-id=0%3A1

Phase 2: Implementation

Sprint 1: Adding multiple Google Drive accounts
Sprint 2: Automatic syncing of files
Sprint 3: File Interaction
Sprint 4: File organization
Sprint 5: Persistence