I went through Designing for Interaction to come up with a solid process to develop the user interface and user experience of Aura. First I reminded myself of the goal of Aura, the challenges that I faced, and the features it needed to include. I then did an assessment of Messages, the current texting app on the iPhone, by taking screenshots of different functions and designing its app map. This helped me to determine what was working and what was not. Turning to Aura, I listed lots of ideas for its tagline. I created three personas and scenarios for each about how they would possibly use Aura. The scenarios were inspired from the user journey maps that I created from the discussion party. I then listed all the tasks that users needed to be able to do on Aura and designed a task flow for a sensible order that these tasks would occur in. Looking at the app map for Messages and the task flow, I designed a map app for Aura (above). This helped me to design wire frames for the essential and unique screens and functions of Aura. I took the wire frames and sketched visuals for the placeholders. To see this process…