Product Design that has stood the test of time
Home inspections, on a tablet
Rick, CEO of Castle Group inspections, came to us with a great idea: To ease the home inspection process through an app that allowed users to do it directly on their iPads.
Challenge
To offer an accessible and easy-to-understand product design to facilitate the process of inspecting homes.
Solution
Developing an app that enabled its users to access the necessary functions and features to make their reports.
Outcome
A successful product that changed the way home inspectors made their reports, making it simple and functional.
PRODUCT DESIGN
DESIGN THINKING
UX ARCHITECTURE
LOGO DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
What is Fort Reports?
A product design that creates professional home inspections from your tablet.
To achieve a simple navigation, a complex product design process was required. Working with the client when planning, sketching and prototyping was a key part of the process.
Design sprint and workshop
UX Architecture
Product design
App development
Logo design & naming
Event graphic design
I’ve been inspecting homes and buildings for over thirty years, and I wish they would of had this product design years ago. I tried two other reporting systems and experimented with many, but the Fortreports software is by far the easiest to work with.
Joseph Arnone
Home Inspector, ACI
Design Sprint
Conducting a design sprint with the client was key to fleshing out the concept. After several mockups, pivots, and tests with prototypes, we arrived at the key features and final architecture.
Simplicity
We established repetitive user conventions that were easy to become familiar with.
Customizable
Users could add their company branding and edit categories or titles at their convenience.
Sign & Share reports on site
The final report is generated as a single responsive webpage or PDF that can be shared instantly.
Developing a home inspection app that included it all
Product design demo
Developing a simple and highly functional product design is not easy, especially when there are multiple features that need to be part of it. This design process allowed us to create a user friendly product that covered every possible aspect that our users encountered when inspecting a property.
