Platform • UX • 2016
Visto Platform (Ad Tech)
Visto is an all-in-1 solution that unifies the programmatic ecosystem and identifies the most efficient and effective path to ad delivery. View Product
In the highly competitive digital ad space, Ad Ops often need over 18 credentials to trade and serve ads for their clients. Visto aims to address this challenge by consolidating the primary buying platforms and offering real-time performance reporting, thereby streamlining the process for Ad Ops.
As a founding member of the design team, I was tasked with mapping out the complete user experience, generating and conceptualizing ideas, and designing solutions that established the foundation for this ambitious project.
Ad creation workflow
Challenges:
The project faces several challenges, such as the fact that ad creation can vary significantly between different buying platforms and the complex and technical jargon that often accompanies platform configurations.
To address this challenge, we needed to unify and simplify the experience by identifying the most common requirements and designing an interface that was intuitive and easy to use. This would involve streamlining the process of ad creation while ensuring that users could quickly locate and access any platform-specific settings they needed. For example —
- How would we unify & simplify the experience with the most common requirements?
- How would we ensure users can locate the platform-specific custom settings if they need to?
Updated workflow (Wireframe)
Creative Library
Challenges:
The management of ad assets is a challenge due to the diverse requirements of each platform, which can cause significant friction for users.
To alleviate this issue, we need to prioritize the most critical information and present it in a concise and informative summary. This could include key details such as the name, format, size, and date of the asset, as well as the platform it is intended for.
To ensure that users can easily locate their assets, we could organize them based on platform, campaign, or ad type, depending on the user’s preferences. Additionally, we could incorporate a robust search and filtering system that allows users to quickly find specific assets by name, date, or other relevant criteria. Finally, we could provide clear guidance and instructions on how to format and upload assets to each platform to ensure that users can easily manage their assets and meet platform-specific requirements. For Example –
- What is the most important information to reveal as a summary?
- How do we organize them so that users can easily find their assets?
Ad campaign hub
Challenges:
One of the primary challenges for Ad Ops is being able to quickly identify the status of campaigns, including what is currently active, what has been completed, and what is upcoming. It is also critical for Ad Ops to have visibility into which campaigns are underperforming or overperforming, so they can take the necessary steps to optimize them and meet their goals.
To address this challenge, we could develop a dashboard that provides real-time campaign data, allowing Ad Ops to easily track the status and performance of their campaigns. This dashboard could include key metrics such as impressions, click-through rates, conversions, and cost per acquisition, organized by campaign, ad set, or ad creative.
Real-time reporting
Challenges:
As mentioned above, Ad Ops need to identify problematic ad campaigns quickly as ad buying is racing with time and budget. The real-time reporting gives them a bird-eye summary of their budgeting/spend, performance over time, and a way to drill in for each ad creation. This allow them to make informed decision on how to optimize their campaigns to better serve/target their ad delivery.
Targeting — Rule Builder
Targeting setup can vary greatly between different platforms, which can be a challenge for Ad Ops. To address this challenge, we can identify the most commonly shared targeting settings and provide users with the flexibility to set up more granular details based on the selected platform.
The goal would be to provide a streamlined and user-friendly targeting setup experience that meets the needs of Ad Ops across different platforms.
See how the platform looks like today in the following video.