DigiLocker

Design Evaluation

Duration

Dec. 2023 (2 Weeks)

Team

4 Person Team

Practice

Research, Usability studies, UI design, Product thinking & Prototyping

Tools

Figma & Adobe Illustrator

To enhance the usability of the key features of the app, to ensure a user-friendly and secure platform for end users.

Primary Goal

Speed of Use : To ensure that users are able to perform the critical tasks of the app easily and efficiently.

Speed of Use : Users should be able to navigate the app easily.

Ease of Use : Users should be clear about the objective of the
app/features.

Ease of Communication : To communicate all the important features of the app to users of various backgrounds.

Error free Use : To ensure an error free use of the app.

User Experience Goals

No. of Documents Issued, Document Access Rate, User Adoption Rate

K.P.I.

Information Architecture

Analysis of IA

Tasks that are essential for both Novice/ First time User and Expert/ Regular User.

Main objectives of using DigiLocker.

Tasks that are more focused to regular users and can be essential but rarely used by novice users.

One Time Use

User registration

Linking Aadhar

Onboarding

Frequent Use

Document Retrieval

Searching documents

Opening issued documents

Issuing new documents

Sharing a issued document

Uploading documents

Non - Frequent Use

Downloading the document

Adding nominee

Deleting the documents

E-sign documents

Feedback and support

Account Recovery

Evaluation of the current app indicated that the app scores severely low on point 3 & 9, this will be reflected in recommendation made along with primary user experience goal.

100%

75%

50%

25%

0%

1. Visibility of system status

70%

6. Recognition rather than recall

55%

9. Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

26.6%

3. User control and freedom

25%

2. Match between system and the real world

51%

8. Aesthetic and minimalistic design

43.3%

5. Error prevention

52%

4. Consistency and standards

45%

7. Flexibility and Efficiency of use

44.6%

10. Help and documentation

50%

Heuristic Evaluation

01

Task completion feedback is almost negligible or not provided.

02

Progress indication for document loading / fetching is small and hard to notice.

03

Buttons, inputs and items have affordance for different states like active, focus, disabled etc.

Snippets of Heuristic Evaluation

Visibility of System Status

01

02

03

03

03

03

Score : 70%

01

Visual code doesn’t match user level of experience and expectations. Eg: Icons

02

System elements don’t look similar to user’s familiar icons. Eg: Menu and Issued icon.

03

Copywriting is hardly understandable (level of jargon) to end user. Eg: Benificiary ID

Snippets of Heuristic Evaluation

Match between system & real world

03

01

02

Score : 51%

Snippets of Heuristic Evaluation

01

Numerous vital features are hidden in unexpected places/tabs, making them hard to locate or recognize at first glance.

02

Documents showed / issued look different. Screens aesthetics also change between the screens.

03

Different terms used for same actions- upload, add, save, get.

Consistency & standards

Score : 45%

01

02

01

System should learn what the user regularly requires and adapt to the current needs.

02

The app caters to a diverse user base, from novices to experienced users, but it provides no guidance for new users. Additionally, it displays irrelevant ads that lead to external pages.

03

New feature not explained or updated about in the app, tucked in a corner.

Snippets of Heuristic Evaluation

Flexibility & efficiency of use

Score : 44.6%

01

02

03

01

Error messages are inconsistently positioned on the screen or they are not provided altogether. They should have a consistent placement.

02

Add undo action to destructive action which appears for at least 5s after the action has been made.

Snippets of Heuristic Evaluation

Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

Score : 26.6%

02

01

Hierarchical Task Analysis

Primary Task

Find and delete your 12th marksheet after sharing it.

Situation

A - When user has not issued the 12th marksheet.

B - When user has issued the marksheet.

C - When the user wants to share the document from drive (not yet uploaded).

D - When user already has the document in drive and will share with e-sign (no need to upload).

E - When user wants to compare the drive doc and the issued doc (no need to upload).

Usability testing

What is your age?

Do you use Digilocker?

On which web or app?

How often do you use it?

Website

App

Novice

Novice

Expert

Rarely

Often

Yes

No

Screener

Usability testing results

0

N1


T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -0

T3 -1

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -0

T3 -0

T4 -0

T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -0

72.1

N2

45

N3

47.5

N4

65

N5

20

100

0

E1


T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -0

T3 -0

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -1

T1 -1

T2 -1

T3 -1

T4 -0

T1 -1

T2 -0

T3 -1

T4 -1

22.5

E2

52.5

E3

72.5

E4

62.5

E5

57.5

100

Novice

50

Average S.U.S. score

53.5

Expert

SUS score of ~50 for both the types of users indicate that the app was equally difficult for both of them and the app lacks learnability and memorability.

Recommendations

& Redesign

Home

Documents

Add Docs

Drive

Menu

Search screen as of now.

Removing “Newly added Docs”

Fixing the Tabs to be more consistent with the rest of the app.

The document is not added by the state. Please check the Menu Tab to check the list of documents that can be added on DigiLocker.

The document is not added by the state. Please check the Menu Tab to check the list of documents that can be added on DigiLocker.

No such document found. Please check the spelling again.

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Added information on search

screen to indicate the status of document wrt the app.

Search feature can also automatically merge requests in latin and roman numerals.

Search feature now gives a concrete feedback if/when the document is not found.

Search Screen

Home Screen

How the screen looks after first time log-in as of now.

Possible walkthroughs for the application, walking novice user to the functionality of the app.

Your added Documents

Documents you might want to add

Newly added feature in DigiLocker

Home

Documents

Add Docs

Drive

Menu

Aadhar/Username

Mobile NO.

Splash Screen

Sign IN

Sign UP

Sign up Details

PIN/OTP

PIN/OTP

Onboarding Flow

Register page as of now

New screen with recommendations integrated.

Adding link to IT ACT,2000. in case of miscommunication or any dispute.


Fixed headings and colors for icons

More attention to button.

Relevant banners.

PIN/OTP

Existing Document view screen

New Document view screen

Kebab Menu Features

Changing Bottom App Bar to accommodate for more features.

Removing extra share button.

Download as PDF, Kebab Menu on Document view page.

Menu page as of now.

Menu

Changed icons to less confusing icons for “Nominee” and “My Profile”

“My Account” section shifted to “My Profile”

“New Digilocker Documents added” section added

Thank you !

yashrawt458@gmail.com