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Recurring Events - A quick UX exploration

Working on the ohanah app v2 - one of the challenge was to implement recurring events in the most simple, easy and elegant way as possible while yet to keep it powerful.

Here a first draft of making recurring events during the event creation process (can be applied to non recurring events as well, making them recurrings).

When creating an event they system will differentiate between the parent event and its recurring children. Meaning that you can edit all the recurring events at once (whole recurring seres editing) by editing the parents or just override changes on a per per event base, by simple editing each single child.

Login / Signup - A quick UX exploration

Working on the login - signup workflow I’m try to reduce as much as possible the steps in the process in favour of a better UX. For example I always hate to submit email / password and being notified that the combination was wrong, maybe when i just misspelled the email. Second is important to allow the user to move easily between login to signup.

first check if the email is a valid email string, if not contextually alert the user:

if the email entered is a valid email, check if it’s already registered in in the system if not contextually notify the user, with a quick link to register it (signup-up).

In the case the email is found on the system, show the user avatar inline so he knows with which identity is loggin in, and contextually show a remember me check box (otherwise in the other cases useless and therefore not needed to have it displayed.)