Yeah Buddy

Yeah Buddy was a safety-focused app allowing friends and family to monitor each other's wellbeing and location—similar to Life360—through check-ins, location sharing, and safety alerts.

Challenge

The Yeah Buddy team came to Precode with an idea for a safety app and strong existing branding they wanted to maintain. Our challenge was to design a clean, easy-to-use app for people of all ages on both iPhone and Android—covering registration, alert setup, geofencing, settings, and all user journeys.

Impact

In a single 5-day UX Sprint, we created every screen the development team needed to build the app: complete registration and onboarding flows, alert setup, geofence configuration, settings, all happy and unhappy paths, plus a comprehensive design kit including full UI kit, color scheme, and typography system. The complete handover package gave their development team everything required to start building immediately with zero ambiguity.

How we helped

Market Research
Wireframing - Low-fidelity, high-fidelity
UX design
Design system
Prototyping

Approach

Pre-flight

We had a two hour meeting the week before the sprint to meet the team, discuss the project brief, confirm the deliverables and obtain any necessary assets before the first day of the sprint

Daily calls

Every morning we had a 15 minute stand up with the YeahBuddy team

Show & Tell

At the end of each day we sent an email with a link to a prototype plus a video screencast of us presenting our work to the YeahBuddy team

Prototyping

Prototypes not presentations - we prefer to show prototypes instead of screens. This allowed the YeahBuddy team to walk through user journeys instead of a set of static screens.

Handover

We performed three rounds of user testing which were all recorded. The video recordings, feedback and results all made available to the YeahBuddy team, and written up into a user testing report.