May 2021-September 2021

Lead UX Research, Strategy, and Design for Simulation Software Modernization

1 UX Manager, 1 UX Designer, 1 UX Developer, 1 Scrum Master
Our team worked in support of several engineering teams and the product management team. I would frequently collaborate with the leads from those teams.

Feature Enhancement

Our team was tasked with incorporating a comparison tool for calculations on our existing Java Client that had been developed over the previous 20 years. The Java Client included legacy software and a robust feature library on a cluttered UI.

The Java Client was developed on top of legacy software and the code behind it was Frankensteined together through several generations of engineers. Conflicting code and cluttered UI presented several challenges as oour development team sought a solution.

From a usability standpoint we wanted the interface to be as clear and concise as possible to the user. Our goal was to enable our user to have multiple views of their solution during calculations.

I was primarily tasked with collecting research for upcoming releases as we built our next generation software. Some of these findings were incorporated into our current offering as feature enhancements as we knew any new offering was several years down the roadmap.

Not only was I tasked with championing UX within our product but I also had to work with our engineering teams to incorporate these concepts into a legacy software that favored functionality over usability.

• Our users were given functionality to compare running calculations to better assist them on delivering analysis to their teams.

• Rather than only seeing one view of their calculations the user was enabled to compare several stages at one time.

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