My initial task was to design an interface for an employee shift planning system. At the beginning of the work, there was a general idea and a basic interface consisting of three tables. In the course of work, the product acquired new functionality, and I was required to: identify types of users and describe tasks and interaction scenarios for each of them, design information architecture, design new features, form a design system, and build the final design based on it.
As a result, I became a member of the product team of the "Universal Scheduling" project and all the design tasks of parallel products passed through me also.
It was a new product, we were a startup and the design process was formed on the basis of Lean methodology (Plan - Do - Study - Act). I started from the needs of several existing clients, analysis of requests from customers that we received during pilot projects, analysis of competitors, and our assumptions and hypotheses. The most frequently requested functionality went into the design and further into development.
We had 3 main product branches: universal scheduling, auto-scheduling, and time tracking. I was part of the first branch team, which consisted of:
The CIO also took an active part in creating and discussing the product.
My responsibilities included analyzing competitors, analyzing customer business processes, researching the target audience, designing interface logic, and rendering the final interface. I was also involved in designing the interface of our second branch of the product - autoplanning.
As a team, we made decisions about the priority of released features, the internal business logic of the application, building an information architecture, and about communication and integration with our other applications.
We created a time management system - a hardware and software complex that allows you to automate the management cycle for various categories of personnel (own staff, outsourcing, merchandising, etc.). The system contains several modules that can be used both together and separately.