Inventaprint — Dashboard and Workspace Redesign

Client Project: working closely with Dev team to Design a more intuitive project management, communication, and production tool for B2B and first time Inventors to manifest their product by connecting to Manufacturers.

4 min readMar 19, 2018

PROJECT SUMMARY

CLIENT

Inventaprint is a start-up offers a workspace for inventors / innovators to communicate and project plan to manufacture and manifest their product. Uniquely they make any production possible, any material, any vision, Inventaprint works to help communicate your vision to manufacturers and scale your product to mass production.

MY ROLE

UX Researcher and UX Design Lead

PROJECT DURATION

2 months (Research, Design, Development)

TEAM

4 UX Researchers/Designers, 3 Developers
working with Co-Founders: CEO and COO, and CTO

CLIENT REQUESTS

Redesign and Analysis:
• Outline user interface and dashboard
• Display data from database to user about their uploaded parts to be manufactured
• Logging Users in (front-end only)

DELIVERABLES

• Research Report
• Presentation
• Wireframes
• Clickable Prototype
• Coded Features: dashboard, FAB, modals, dynamic chart and pie graph, messaging, submit forms

PROTOTYPE:

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

CHALLENGES

Discover what current users and potential users really need when they send designs to manufacturers and how the bidding process can be streamlined.

Also, organizing multipart products into overviews and intuitive dashboard.

PROJECT PROCESS

→ Competitive and Comparative Analysis
→ User Interviews
→ Usability Tests on Current Users
→ Synthesize findings: Affinity Map, create Personas, User Flows, Site Map, Feature Analysis, Revise Assumptions and Hypothesis
→ Design Studio
→ Meetings with Dev Team
→ Usability Test 2 Rounds
→ Present Redesign and Research Report

ANALYSIS

Competitive Analysis

Task Flows on Existing Product

USER RESEARCH

PRIMARY USER

SECONDARY USER

VALIDATED ASSUMPTIONS AND REVISED HYPOTHESIS

There are innovative ideas in all of us, yet the process of making those ideas a reality are opaque. At each step of creating a product there are complications. Inventors are frustrated by the slow conversation with manufactures to validate what is possible and end up making misinformed decisions leading to poor results. All these factors slow down innovation and can limit whose ideas are made real.

How might we facilitate communication, build trust, accelerate and illuminate the process of manufacturing between inexperienced innovators / small businesses and manufactures, so that their ideas can efficiently and cost-effectively manifest?