Calendar & Task Planner — Simplifying Everyday Planning

A focused modernization of a 2021 scheduling concept, redesigned to make daily tasks, calendar views, and project commitments easier to understand and manage.

Role: Product Designer
Platform: Mobile
Project type: Conceptual redesign
Year: 2026

Cover artwork for the Calendar & Task Planner case study

Where the project started

The original 2021 concept explored a combined calendar, task manager, and lightweight project-planning experience. Its yellow accent, day/week/month navigation, task cards, and approachable visual direction created a useful foundation, but the product lacked a clearly defined workflow, complete interaction states, and accessibility guidance.

Original work — 2021

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Creating a clearer planning experience

The redesign focused on helping people understand what requires attention today, move confidently between calendar views, and create or update tasks without losing important scheduling context.

Clarify the relationship between tasks, calendar events, and projects
Improve day, week, and month navigation
Make task status and priority easier to scan
Provide complete creation, editing, search, and filtering flows
Add accessible controls and meaningful system feedback

Planning across daily and calendar views

Composite view of the Today dashboard, week view, and month view screens — The updated experience connects the Today dashboard with week and month views while maintaining consistent task status, project context, and navigation.

From planning to completion

Composite view of the task creation, review, editing, and completion flow — A focused task flow supports creating, reviewing, editing, and completing work without requiring users to leave the planning context.

Designing beyond the ideal path

Supporting states address empty schedules, conflicts, overdue tasks, loading, offline access, validation, deletion confirmation, and unsuccessful searches.

Composite view of supporting system states including empty schedule, conflict, overdue task, loading, offline, validation, delete confirmation, and no-results screens — System states cover empty schedule, conflict, overdue task, loading, offline, validation, delete confirmation, and no-results scenarios.

What changed

This modernization transformed a primarily visual 2021 calendar concept into a more coherent and accessible product flow. The strongest original ideas—the warm yellow accent, calendar-first navigation, and approachable task cards—were preserved while the information hierarchy, interaction logic, responsive behavior, and supporting states were strengthened.

This is a self-initiated conceptual modernization of a personal 2021 project. It was not commissioned by a client. No primary interviews, usability testing, validated findings, or measured product outcomes are claimed.

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