DOOS
One workspace for a team's tasks and time — calendar, reminders, time-tracking and Trello-style boards folded into a single product, web and mobile.
A problem, not a product
In 2021 a client found me on a freelance platform with a team that was losing the thread — who was doing what, and how long it took. He needed to see every task at once,by day, by week, and by month, to read how busy the team actually was; to handle the time each task took; and to surface what was urgent. He arrived with a rough concept. I took it from there to a working product and prototype.
From "which app" to "why not one app"
His instinct was a single, focused tool. But when I mapped the requirements, they weren't one thing — they were four describing the same work from different angles: acalendar, reminders, time-tracking, and aTrello-style board. So the question flipped. DOOS became one workspace that folds all four into a single place — the same tasks seen as a list, a calendar, or a board, with time tracked against them — on web and on mobile.
One set of data, three ways to read it
The team's real need was a glance, not a feature list. So the spine of DOOS is three views of the same tasks: a list for detail, a calendarfor load over time, and a board for status at a glance. Priority lives in status and tags; time lives in an integrated timer and a work-versus-break report. One model, several lenses.
A full calendar on a 2021 phone
The calendar was generous on desktop and merciless on mobile. A week or a month grid wants room, a phone has none, and in 2021 there was no settled pattern to borrow. The answer was to let the screen choose its scale — Today for focus, then3-day, Week and Month as you zoom out — each re-flowed for one thumb, every event still carrying the same colour so a glance reads the same at any scale. Making that legible on a small screen, that early, is the part of this project I'm proudest of.
Status, time, and one-gesture actions
The board carries status — To do, In progress,Done — and on mobile it stacks into a single column with tap-and-drag. A start / stop / break timer runs against any task and surfaces in the status bar, and swipe-to-reveal keeps the common actions one gesture away.
One language, every surface
Across three views and two platforms, one system holds it together. Four colours carry state and category, and they keep their meaning whether they appear as a status, a tag, a calendar block, a board column, or a slice of tracked time. Build a task row once and it slots into every view — that consistency is what let a product this broad still feel like one thing.
Colour is the index
One token, four components
The same value — Blue / In progress — across the product. Same hue, four components, zero re-learning.
The component library
The internal tool that became a business
DOOS shipped as an internal tool for the client's own team. He liked living in it enough that he stopped thinking of it as internal — he took DOOS to market as a product, and ran with it. Built to organise one team; it became something he sold. Delivered end to end in three months, concept to working prototype, as the sole designer on the project.