Your Tasks, Your Stories — Watch it Unfold
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Increase Your Accountability
With Our Narrative-Driven App

Unfold is designed for professionals and students who struggle with motivation, procrastination, and staying accountable for their tasks. It transforms mundane task management into an engaging narrative journey, which allows users to create a personalized digital avatar that evolves with their completed tasks, reflecting their progress and accomplishments.

While many apps use basic gamification to motivate users, Unfold uniquely focuses on a story-driven experience, compelling users to complete tasks not just for points or badges, but to reveal the next chapter of their story.

Dive into
Your Story

Complete tasks to gain XP, level up, and unlock new chapters. Each chapter unfolds a personalized adventure that brings you closer to your goals.

Personalize
Your Character

As you progress, your virtual pet levels up. Each new chapter may reward items your pet can wear, creating a story-driven journey with your pet as the hero.

Receive Gentle Reminders

Receive notifications to keep you on track. If tasks are missed, your pet subtly shows it, offering a lighthearted reminder to stay engaged with your story.

See What We Built!

Immerse yourself in our narrative-driven task management app!

View our Final Poster

This poster showcases our CS 147 journey, starting with the needfinding stages and ending with the high-fi prototype. We presented Unfold to over 300 people at the CS 147 Project Expo on Friday, December 6th from 6 - 9pm.

From Low-Fi to Medium-Fi

This is how we transitioned from the low-fi prototype to to the medium-fi prototype of the levels scene! We incorporated a retro theming to evoke storytelling and nostalgia in the user and set our app visually apart from others.

Task Screens Medium-Fi

These are the medium-fi prototypes of our three main tasks users can perform in our app. The simple task is to enter and complete one of your tasks. The moderate task is to choose an in-game option to advance your story. And the complex task is to personalize your story theme and character.

Projects

Check out what we've done!

Needfinding

We explored the initial domain related to personal and social accountability by performing our initial needfinding interviews. This presentation contains the empathy maps for each user and key insights we learned form these interviews.

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Experience Prototypes

We redefined our domain to focus on sustainable habits to support personal accountability. We brainstormed "point of view" and "how might we" statements to explore potential solutions. Then, we performed experience prototyping to test our assumptions.

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Concept Video

We showcased our vision through a concept video, visualizing the task flows and use cases of our app. We explored how specific interactions will occur without a specific UI. We also found values in our design via market research and considered ethical implications.

Low-Fi Prototyping

We brainstormed four different concepts for our app, then sketched a paper low-fi prototype of the best concept and tested it with over six users. We tested each task in our prototype and measured efficiency, ease of navigation, and also eagerness to use the app.

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Medium-Fi Prototype

We created a medium-fi interactive prototype of our app utilizing Figma. We also incorporated a retro theming and design system.

High-Fi Prototype

We created a high-fidelity prototype of our app utilizing the cross-platform development framework React Native.

Heuristic Evaluation

Our medium-fi prototype went though a heuristic evaluation by experts and peers. We improved our medium-fi prototype with this feedback to create our high-fi prototype.

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Pitch & Poster

We presented our project to interested parties and experts from Stanford, industry, and research in the CS 147 Project Expo on Friday, December 6th from 6 - 9pm.

Demo Video

Check out the demo of our final product! We've poured our hearts out for this product, so we hope you enjoy!

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Final Report

This is everything we've done in the past 3 months all synthesized in a single document!

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Habitly Ever After

Your Journey to Consistency Starts Here.

Steven L.
MS, BS CS ‘25 (AI + HCI)
Software Engineer

Once missed an application deadline due to daylight savings.

Sarah J.
BS Design '25 (AI + UX)
Designer

Once submitted a college app 1 minute before the deadline.

Lauren Y.
BS CS '26 (HCI)
Designer

Reread the Percy Jackson series instead of starting my PSET.

Krystal L.
BS SymSys '26 (HCI)
Designer

Convinced myself that cleaning my desk counted as 'studying.'