Reggie Gift Shopping List Manager

Project Highlights

Mobile App
UX/UI Design
Interaction Design
Gift Lists
Shared Lists
iOS
Modal Workflows
Error Handling

Executive Summary

Reggie was designed as a practical mobile utility for managing gift ideas across birthdays, holidays, and shared family occasions. The app helped users create lists, add items, share lists with contacts, track purchase status, and manage the details that often get lost in informal gift planning.

The design emphasized directness: large touch targets, recognizable icons, clear modals, friendly empty states, and a persistent navigation model that kept the most common tasks close at hand.

The screen set also documents a broad range of product states, including account recovery, registration, empty states, list management, shared contacts, search results, item editing, purchase status, help, and app information.

Onboarding & Account Access

Reducing Friction Before the First List

The opening experience introduced the Reggie brand, then supported common account flows including new account registration and account recovery. The visual system used a calm blue palette, familiar gift imagery, and direct form fields to make the utility feel friendly and approachable.

Reggie splash screen with gift icon, app name, and gift photography — The splash screen established the brand and product category immediately.

Reggie account recovery screen with username and password fields — Account recovery used a simple two-field path back into the app.

Reggie new account registration screen with name, email, and mobile phone fields — Registration captured only the essentials needed to begin using the app.

Keep Actions Close

Primary actions such as creating lists and searching for items were always easy to reach.

Use Familiar Patterns

Icons, tabs, list rows, modals, and confirmation dialogs followed patterns users already understood.

Support Sharing

Gift lists become more useful when they can be shared, edited, and coordinated with other people.

Design the Edge Cases

Error states, empty states, delete confirmations, and help topics were treated as part of the core experience.

List Management

Creating, Organizing, and Sorting Lists

The app's core workflow centered on creating named gift lists, managing personal and shared lists, sorting item collections, and maintaining clear ownership of each list.

Reggie main screen with menu items and empty state prompting users to build a list or search for items — The empty state guided users toward creating a list or searching for items.

Manage lists and notes screen showing personal lists, shared lists, notes, and bottom navigation — Manage Lists separated personal lists, shared lists, and notes into a scannable structure.

Gift list item screen with tabs for all, available, hidden, purchased and a sort menu — Sorting and filtering helped users manage longer lists across availability and purchase states.

Item Workflows

Searching, Saving, Editing, and Tracking Items

Adding an item required the app to support multiple paths: searching by description, scanning or entering a UPC, handling failed searches, selecting a result, saving to a list, editing details, and later marking an item purchased.

A collage of Reggie modal workflows for creating lists, searching, saving, and confirming actions — Modal workflows kept focused tasks contained without forcing users into deep navigation paths.

Search for an item modal with lookup field and Scan UPC action — Search supported description, UPC, and camera-based scanning paths.

Search results modal showing product thumbnails, titles, UPCs, and selected result row — Results paired product thumbnails with item names and UPCs for faster recognition.

Save item modal showing selected product and a choose a list dropdown — Saving an item connected discovery directly to the user's list structure.

Item detail screen showing a purchased status for a LEGO toy — Purchase status gave shared-list participants a clear signal without exposing unnecessary details.

Sharing & Contacts

The app treated contacts and shared lists as first-class parts of the experience. Users could choose contacts, manage access, edit shared contact details, and stop sharing with confirmation when needed.

Contact selection screen for sharing a gift list by email or mobile — Contacts could be selected by email or mobile, supporting how people actually share lists.

Confirmation modal asking the user to confirm stop sharing a list with a contact — High-impact sharing changes used explicit confirmation.

Shared contacts list showing names, phone numbers, edit, and delete actions — Shared-contact management made ongoing list access visible and editable.

Edit shared contact modal with name, phone, and email fields — Editing a shared contact stayed lightweight and modal-based.

System States

Designing the Moments That Usually Get Ignored

A useful mobile app is shaped by the small moments: error messages, confirmation dialogs, help content, and app information. Reggie used these states to keep users oriented and reduce uncertainty.

Search error modal showing an item not found message — Error messaging explained what happened and how to recover.

Confirm delete modal warning that deleted items cannot be recovered — Destructive actions used strong visual warning states.

Help topics modal with search and common topics — Help content was structured around common user tasks.

About this app modal with version, system, build number, release date, and app description — The About modal provided versioning and ownership details clearly.

Design Decisions That Mattered

Modal task flows: Common actions like creating a list, searching for an item, saving an item, editing a contact, and confirming deletes stayed focused and contained.
Persistent navigation: Reggie kept lists, shared lists, and shared-with-me workflows visible through a bottom navigation model.
Clear status language: Labels such as Available, Hidden, Purchased, and Desire level helped gift-list owners and participants understand item state quickly.
Recoverable errors: Error states gave users a next step instead of simply reporting failure.
Human-centered sharing: The contact model recognized that gift lists are social tools, not just personal inventories.

Reflection

Reggie was a compact product, but the UX challenge was surprisingly broad. The app needed to support personal organization, shared coordination, item discovery, purchase tracking, contact management, and system-level states inside a small mobile interface.

Looking back, I would explore stronger onboarding, cloud synchronization visibility, richer list permissions, barcode scanning refinements, more robust product matching, and a more modern visual system. The core idea remains useful: gift planning becomes easier when the app helps people coordinate around lists rather than forcing them to remember everything informally.

This project reinforced that the most successful mobile apps aren't necessarily the ones with the most features—they're the ones that make everyday tasks feel effortless.

Small utility apps succeed when they make repeated, practical tasks feel obvious, fast, and forgiving.

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