Turning 4 years old and how we’re coping through the COVID-19 crisis
By: Ritika Bhagya
Tags: UX, 2020, Design, Covid 19, Year In Review

It was fun and a great learning experience for us while working closely with a talented group of people. The video below contains a few snippets from the workshop.

In the wake of the current crisis and the new normal, we followed the necessary safety protocols and social distancing measures while conducting the workshop.

The work we’ve been doing

The last year brought in a varied range of work to Flolab — from enterprise dashboards to mainstream consumer facing apps. We worked on the redesign of a few products and there were some which were designed from scratch. Here’s what went live over the last year:

Cekaja: We worked on the redesign of the complete web product, collaborating closely with the internal product team at Cekaja. Our goal was to redesign the information architecture, improve usability, as well as launch the credit scoring feature within the platform.

Remush: A video content creation and consumption app built for India. Since the ban on all Chinese apps in India, TikTok being one of them, this app has grown viral within the first couple of weeks since it’s launch. The app’s UX is being especially appreciated by its loyal user base.

Ayopop / Ayoconnect: We’ve been working on Ayopop’s B2B business called Ayoconnect for all of last year and it’s been an exciting journey to work on the new enterprise dashboards for Ayoconnect’s partners and billers.

Have Halal, Will Travel: This is a product that’s targetted towards Muslim travelers with dietary restrictions when traveling abroad. We worked on redesigning the website to increase sign up conversions and user engagement.

Emporio Analytics: An enterprise dashboard that’s targetted towards enabling independent merchants and brand marketers to work together on realtime PoS data insights and targetted shopper marketing. These dashboards were designed while collaborating closely with the Product and Marketing team at EA.

Tempat.com: Tempat’s app and website was designed from the ground up. Tempat.com helps users discover places in their area which have ongoing deals and promos. It was an especially fun and challenging experience to work on a product that needed a very refreshing look and experimentation with the core UI elements. Our team loved the creative freedom the clients trusted us with for this project!

FUNDtastic: Continuing on our partnership with FUNDtastic from last year, this year we helped them launch features that would increase the value FUNDtastic provides to their existing users, as well as attract new users to the platform.

Fazzdoc.com: Fazzdoc helps users book appointments with doctors. We worked on designing their consumer-facing mobile app as well as the dashboards built for hospitals.

What we’ve been doing for fun

While work was going on in full-steam, time and again we would feel the need to just make room for some playtime. We made outings a regular thing over the last year, whether it was for Karaoke, Bowling, Movies, VR Games or just a casual dinner! We spent time learning more about each other, understanding each other and of course having fun with each other outside of our office space.

VR game outing

That was until March 2020 when COVID-19 hit us, and all of that came to a pause. We waited a couple of months, hoping that things would get back to normal. But now that we’ve entered the new normal and have realized it’ll be a while before we can go out for a meal together, apps like Discord and Google Meet have become our best friends. We’re hopping on and off calls with each other every few minutes trying to get enough face time.

We also made a regular habit of doing sharing sessions, where each employee shares something about themselves or how they’ve been spending all that extra time at home; or share something on a topic which they think we could all learn from. We had people talking about their hobbies and share with us about their side gigs. We had some really informative sharing sessions right from how to invest to save for your future, right up to how to be a better professional, how to critique designs, how to effectively communicate and so much more!

It also goes without saying, that we’re participating in webinars and we’re also speaking at webinars.