In the summer of 2021 I was hired as an intern for ManyUses, a design agency specializing in web design & development and digital products. During my internship, I worked on multitude of different projects all related to the company's product, Fizpage.
Fizpage is a product developed by ManyUses for users to create “snack-sized pages”. It’s intended for users that want something more complex than LinkTree but more simple than building a full-blown website in Squarespace.
With Fizpage, users can add images, social media links, and embed anything from Spotify playlists to Yelp reviews.
Starting with mind-mapping, I created a broad range of ideas and use cases for a user to create a Fizpage while keeping in mind why it would be useful for them to create one versus other alternatives. I created three categories of use cases for a Fizpage, Personal, Social, and Business, trying to think deeper than just a page of buttons to a user’s social media.
Along with working with building webpages with the Fizpage builder, I documented my experiences with the webpage builder itself. I completed a QA document detailing what I expected to happen with a certain function or aspect of the site, what actually happened, and how it could be improved for a user.
This exercise was incredibely valuable to fully delve into how the products works. This QA testing process eventually led to designing solutions on how to fix the problems that arose, so the Fizpage builder would be easy and straightforward for users to navigate.
Creating the pages with the Fizpage builder was a quick process compared to building out a page in Squarespace. The longest part of the process was creating assets in order for the pages to seem believable, rather than a collection of stock images.
This exercise was incredibly useful to my thought process going forward in UX/UI. Rather than designing a webpage and coding in the interactivity on the spot, I designed a step-by-step process, thinking out how a user gets to each step of building a webpage. Designing each screen for each step was vital from a user experience standpoint because it made me consider how many clicks or steps it took to complete a task on the Fizpage builder.
During my internship with ManyUses, I was also tasked with creating posts for Fizpage’s Instagram, focusing on the product’s simplicity, how it compares to other webpage builders, and the type of pages that a user can create.
