The Process of Presenting Data
We’re underway with a design that we’re excited about. The product we’re designing will be taking care of the look and feel of a slide so the user only needs to worry about content.
When you add a slide, you’re prompted to choose one of a few pre-made templates. From here, you have defined spaces on the slide that allow you to choose what content you want to see there. If you type too much, we’ll automatically scale down the font size a couple points. If you have a big photo, we’ll just resize it to span the container proportionately.
To get here, we had a few ideas that failed user testing spectacularly. Users were still left to design the slide, choose typefaces and sizes, and data visualizations could go anywhere. It was not presentation software for people that don’t like presentation software.
I’m focussed on creating the interaction flows and wireframes for the content boxes and toolbar. Evan is creating user flows, and Clay is putting together wireframes and a prototype that ties it all together.
So far, I have:
- Created wireframes for all modals
- Created wireframes for the toolbar and content box
- Created interaction flows to show toolbar interplay with user
- Created low-fidelity assets for Clay to build the prototype
- Introduced Evan to the magic of OmniGraffle
- Begun work on iconography
Seriously though, check out this interaction flow for adding an image to a content box.
Our team wants to have a bulk of the low fidelity design work done by end of day tomorrow and we’re more than ready to show the client what we’ve come up with. To get there, we need to:
- Present to our client the ideas we have and confirm that requirements are being met
- Put together suggestions for color palettes and style guides if Sapling wants to offer baked-in themes for users
- Create high fidelity mockups
- Create a presentation about our presentation software to present to our client, due Thursday.
It’s going to be a busy week.
