As we start to get used to having meetings and classes virtually under the heavy situation called COVID-19, we noticed that these virtual meetings tend to go over time more often due to a lack of physical constraints such as meeting room spaces. As a result, we came up with a time-ticker feature on Zoom to help the users stay on track and ultimately help them have an efficient use of their meeting time. The final outcome of the project is featured on UX Collective.

Having all of our class meeting through Zoom, Antonio and I realized that our virtual meetings were going overtime far more often–sometimes by 1-2 hrs! – and wanted to see whether others were facing a similar situation. Reaching out to friends and co-workers we realized that more than 60% of them struggled with over-time meetings during the work-from-home setting. 5 out of 8 participants agreed that the virtual meetings generally tend to lack in structure compared to meetings that take place in a physical meeting room.

We’ve noticed more meetings were going over the planned duration due to fewer ways to apply physical constraints to the meeting times, such as being kicked out of the conference room. We wanted to come up with a solution with minimum changes to the current Zoom experience. We conducted a brief survey of the Zoom system and decided to create a feature that can reside under the meeting tab. While our main feature will live on the meeting tab, the users will see a real-time ticker during the video call once they've created the agenda.