Where we’re leaving Zensors

With the semester drawing to a close today we’re handing in our final deliverables and publishing the Zensors design website (http://zensors.design). We’d like to take this opportunity to publish a brief recap to give you a sense of where we’re leaving Zensors, and what might be next.

Last week we presented our work in our capstone presentation and discussed the final deliverables with the Zensors team. We’re packaging up the research, design, MVP and design backlogs, so that the Zensors team can use that moving forward.

Given that we joined the Zensors team when commericalization was only just getting underway, the research we conducted (details here, here, and here) will be an invaluable resource to consult when exploring new markets. Besides the market research, our team has expended significant efforts on user research (some details here, here and here). This not only helped us as we were building out wireframes and flows for the MVP, but also provided deep insight into customer perception and understanding of the Zensors system.

The MVP that we built earlier in combination with the new visuals will allow the Zensors team to progressively build out the new interface as they add features and allocate more resources to upgrading the design of the customer-facing product. Since the MVP is functional, these visuals once translated to HTML and CSS can be seamlessly layered on top of the MVP codebase. As mentioned in the last post about our visual design explorations, the (visual) design system is made up out of components that can be easily reused. In combination with the design backlog that we delivered to the Zensors team, this will provide plenty of avenues for further exploration. These resources will be invaluable when Zensors starts ramping up its design efforts.

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