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Acknowledgements
Main point
Persona profiles were lifted and altered...
Prototype was tested on real humans.
I overbuilt the whole thing...
Designed, and illustrated all ingredient icons.
Roles held
Designer, Researcher, Prototyper
& Study Documentor!
Teammates to thank
A baker friend for the operational grievances that inspired the choice of this prompt, and influenced the features greatly.
Friends & family for holding me together through 5 iterations of my first UX project!
Google's Material Design Ui Kit, for inspiring the last build, along with supplying base components for the checkboxes, user icons, and settings side-panel.
📓 Situation
THE PEOPLE & PROBLEMS
Help the staff of a local bakery manage their inventory of raw ingredients...
...by designing an app which prioritises the vision & language based support needs of their motivated coworkers! Created to facilitate:
Custom notification settings.
Reduced computational load of text.
The lowering of colloquial/ language barriers.
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PEOPLE'S PERSONAS & PROBLEM PAIN POINTS:
COMPETITIVE AUDIT & REPORT:
personas/ pains/ audits ↓
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📗 Technique
THE ROUTES & RATIONALES
Using the user-centred design process provided by Google’s UX course...
...the staff’s distilled pain points were addressed using these main design solutions:
Customisable notification filters, schedules & sounds.
Bar charts to display supply quantity in percentile.
Iconography of the finite produce used, which can be altered/ recreated & reassigned.
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PROTOTYPE & DESIGN SYSTEM REASONING
MOCK-UPS, WIREFRAMES, IDEATION SKETCHES
prototype/ frames/ sketches ↓
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research plan/ test outcomes ↓
📕 Usability
THE OBSERVED OUTCOMES
Five participants performed five actions in a remotely monitored usability study...
...which lead to the implementation of these insights as prioritised design features:
Multi-select options to alter groups of ingredients in lists.
Separating hierarchies of iconography to easily distinguish features.
Long-press gesture failed 5/5 times due to invisibility.
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RESEARCH STUDY PLAN & TEST OUTCOMES
USABILITY METRICS, SUPPORTING COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
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📘 Direction
THE POTENTIAL PROSPECTS
While considering barriers local bakeries face in adopting a any new digital solution to replace their known analog workarounds...
...the next steps of this case study might explore:
Incorporation of analog systems commonly/ currently used by bakery.
Allowances for customised filtered ingredient’s lists.
Standardised menu/ lower-navigation icons used.
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POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS & PROJECT SCOPE
RECOMMENDED RESEARCH
next steps/ concept scope ↓
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📚 Yieldings
THE LEARNED LESSONS
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critique/ reflections/ lessons ↓
Since this was my first prototype, I received immeasurable feedback...
...consisting of noting my untrained errors leading to overlooked steps & decision fatigue. Most notably:
Scope constraints- nearly 6 reroutes later, I’ve learned the importance of establishing these early.
Team commentary- invested colleagues would have benefited my decision making.
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CONSTRUCTIVE REFLECTIONS ON WORKING EXPERIENCES
LESSONS IN RECEIVING & IMPLEMENTING FEEDBACK
End of case study!
🍞 Our Ingredients; Bakery Inventory Management
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