Nepal | Journalism trainees
The Open Data Editor, a tool by OKFN
is where Data Validation happens
A native desktop app for Researchers, Journalists & non-technical data folks to detect and fix errors in their Spreadsheets.
I took everything learnt from existing Primary Research, Support tickets and turned them into Real world Prototypes. This allowed us to test ideas quickly, and make sure we are building the right thing for our users.
A Data management product for everyone to explore, validate, download errors report, and edit the metadata of their excel documents.
Built in 6 months over 2-week sprint cycles alongside a talented cross-functional team of PMs & Engineers.
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Romina
Sara
Guergana
Evgeny
Patricio
Inspiration | Refactoring UI
Work in Progress,
but yo, Drag stuff
around
Respect, Openness & Trusted collaboration
Role expectation
Non-profit | Gov-tech | Software design | Data
A Senior Product Designer who can work independently without much guidance, has experience with enterprise software design, Dashboards and very specialized, complex workflows. All these while communicating and collaborating closely with a cross-functional team of PMs & Engineers.
May - Dec 2024
Setting the Context
Challenge, Project goal, & Constraints
Organization goals & Project objective
Pivoting from the v1 built by Engineers that targeted developers, and other archetypes into a new focus on non-technical data users, and solving the many reported Usability issues. Given the de-risked product idea, and a clear feature list, the expected end product is an intuitive, elegant and accessible Desktop app.
Product Tour
THE ODE TASK FLOWS
Launch & onboarding
Explore the Desktop app experience after installation
File upload
Flow for how spreadsheets & data files are imported
File & folder operations
Disclosure menu & Modals for create, edit, delete actions
Create folder
Rename/edit file
Delete file
Control panel actions
Download, Publish, User guide
Error detection
The flow for Correcting error cells, & the Errors report panel
Metadata panel
Document annotation & Settings
Errors report panel
A dedicated section which visualizes error types, & provides more context to the user
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Upload your data
User guide
Report an issue
Create folder
file without errors.csv
file 2.csv
excel folder
new folder
example 1.xlx
example 2.xlx
example 3.xlx
Focus on Engineering velocity
Timeline: 6 months
Device constraint: Desktop app for Mac, Windows & Linux
Design framework: Google MUI (Google Material UI)
The codebase existed on Google MUI, and this became the confines of my Components design. This structural decision impacted the architecture and functionality of my designs.
Other Constraints
CONSTRAINT
Navigating not having direct access to users through Role-playing
CONSTRAINT
Scope
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CONSTRAINT
Working directly in High-fidelity
CONSTRAINT
Navigating not having direct access to users through Role-playing