"Ensure women’s full and effective participation in leadership at all levels of decision-making."
This subject was our starting point. We search around this topic and opened our minds in order to be able to make links in between different information. It helps to better understand the context in which our product was imagined and the issues it aims to address.
Our mindmap led us to understand why women are less present in top executive
positions, as they only represent 19% of C-Suite positions. It also
introduced us to the lever that can be activated, mainly regarding how to
make them more comfortable speaking up.
From a more global scale, our mindmaps made us realize the inequalities of speaking time during meetings.
We tried to bring an answer on how to give a voice to each collaborator.
Companies know the importance of having parity into their teams and how it mattered that everyone gives its opinion. Thus, companies willing to improve their internal communication would require this service. From everyday meeting to big decision meetings, from two to people to as much a s zoom can handle, it can be adopted by every team.
Zoom timer offers you features that allows your collaborators to follow
their speaking time during online meetings while an administrator can also
monitor and give everyone a voice.
Our user-friendly interface is displayed on a sidebar completely integrated into Zoom. It is
easily understandable from every collaborator and will help them speak up if they see they haven’t given their opinion yet.
On the contrary, if they spoked for a long time, they can ask for others to express themselves.
On a long-term vision, Human Resources department can also analyse the data with
an interactive dashboard to analyse speaking time by person, gender and other features to come.
After the first Mockup design, we tested the prototype with a panel of
testers. The testers were chosen because of their intensive use of
videoconferencing tools. Two of them were professionals and two others were
students.
The test session was particularly relevant because they each used the
video conferencing tools in different ways with different types of
interactions.
Thais is a 22-years-old student in economical analysis and uses Zoom daily to follow her university courses
Jules is a 22-years-old student in corporate law. He uses Zoom daily to follow his university courses but also meets
Thierry works in the energy industry and works as a managing director for a foreign firm. He uses videoconferencing daily to communicate with his teams and extermal partners.
Eric is a CEO in the aerospace industry. He uses Zoom and other toolsfor all kinds of discussions.
This user testing session gave us many insights to improve our product. We
summed up all these points into actionnable modifications to add to the
project.
The figma mockup below is the interface our testers used in the previous video.
The objective with this mockup was to simulate a Zoom meeting with nine participants and showcase the main features of the timer. The mockup is interactive on several features and gives the user a global vision of the possibilities of the use of the timer.
The zoom timer is a tool directly integrated in the zoom interface.
It uses the zoom API to extract data through several endpoints.
Have a look at Zoom API
The first step for the zoom timer to operate with the data is to extract
this part
of the API to get participants information, using first_name and last_name.
Then, the tool uses
this part
of the API to get the meeting duration, using duration.
Zoom doesn't offer the interaction time of each participants as a native feature in its API. However, we know that they do have access to the data. In fact, when using zoom in a meeting, the participant speaking gets a bright green rectangle around his window indicating he is the one speaking right now.
Learn more from people who already worked on this topic here . Some relevant forum discussions are available here.
We are always looking for more added value for our users and are willing to
implement new features in the Zoom timer tool.
According to feedback from our test session, being able to send a red card
or an anonymous message when inappropriate behaviours are identified by the
collaborators would be a path to investigate for new features.
We care about your data and are always looking for ways to help you decide
what you want to share or not. Our teams are working on the ownership of data between Zoom and the API we
develop.
Gender inclusion matters to us and we are looking for better approaches to
integrate this topic and make it fit with your company’s culture.
For further technical devlopment, we would like to implement all the timer features in a Zoom Client SDK. Doing this would avoir all the limitation imposed by Zoom in their API. Learn more aboute SDK here.
On a long-term strategy, we are willing to integrate our service in every videoconferencing tool.
This website was created using the CSS framework Bootstrap.
We were inspired by the following themes:
We also took inspirations from couple landing pages that we found impressive. We have tried to extract all the best practices to adopt in terms of user experience and user interface on these pages:
The illustrations used in these pages are from (with paid licence): Adobe stock.
The animations used are from the amazing animation library Lottie files.