Yedi - Find Your Restroom
Restrooms are kinda crappy. Yedi aims to make restrooms more accessible, comfortable, and secure—for everyone.
It should be easier to use a restroom when you need. It is getting increasingly difficult to find a clean, comfortable restroom as restroom standards continue to decline. Yedi is on a mission to change that by delivering seamless, high-quality restroom experiences. Users can find a Yedi restroom or a trusted partner location, then simply tap or scan to pay and instantly receive a unique access code through the mobile app.
This is where I came in. The team at Yedi brought me on to define and design the core user experience flows, from onboarding and discovering a restroom to unlocking the door, ensuring the entire journey feels timely, intuitive, and safe.
Final visual design and illustrations by Brian Wang.
Final Designs
My Process: Mapping the App User Flow
To design an experience that feels effortless in a moment of urgency, I began by mapping the end-to-end user flow. This meant breaking down every possible path a user could take—from opening the app, to finding a restroom, to accessing a door lock. By visualizing these journeys, I clarified how different entry points, access types, and decision moments connect. This foundational flow became the blueprint for the rest of the design process.
Wireframing Key Moments
With the foundational user flow in place, I moved into drafting the first set of low-fidelity wireframes. These wireframes explored every core experience a user would have inside the app: signing up, signing in, onboarding, discovering restrooms on either a map or list view, evaluating a restroom through a product card and detail page, and finally accessing a bathroom using a generated code. My goal at this stage was to visualize the full ecosystem of screens and pressure-test assumptions made, putting myself in the shoes of a Yedi user.
Key Explorations:
1. Identifying Restrooms on the Map
2. Request Access Component
3. Double Tap to Access a Restoom
Painting Wireframes with a Visual Design
Concluding Thoughts
Working on Yedi pushed me to stretch my design muscles. In just three weeks, I had to quickly dive into an entirely new problem space, understand the current experience of real-world restroom access, and turn that into clean, intuitive flows. The fast pace honed my ability to make decisions with imperfect information, while leveraging the founder’s and Yedi team’s subject-matter expertise to shape end-to-end wireframes for the mobile experience.
