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Star CCM+ A-Z Workflow Analysis
Date:
March 2019 - January 2020
Role:
Lead UX Research, Strategy, and Design for Simulation Software Modernization
Team Composition:
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.
Project type:
User Journey (A-Z robust workflow)
Overview:
Our application had vast capabilities, an apt comparison would be an application such as Photoshop. Due to the nature and scope of Star CCM+ nobody had ever outlined a workflow to understand how users were operating it. Before our team undertook a migration to a Next-Generation platform we needed to understand the different actions of our users.
The Challenge:
Not only did our team need to understand the contexts of these actions, but also had to reconceptualize their interaction as we were migrating from a directory interface into something more modern and aligned with Siemens's cloud offerings.
My Role:
I first needed to complete an A-Z workflow using our toy car model that worked through the different "aspects" of Star CCM+. These aspects were defined through:
• Geometry - the CAD drawing of the model
• Meshing - the boundaries of the CAD model as defined within STAR-CCM+
• Physics - the materials of the calculation and model
• Simulation - the users computate complex problems
• Reporting - the output analysis of the computation
Outcomes:
This research laid the foundation for our efforts in modernizing and improving the Star CCM+ platform. We would incorporate our findings and understanding into feature improvements, proof of concepts, and other efforts for our next-generation improvements.
Connect with me:
An initial analysis to understand the most robust workflow in our application as no workflows were ever clearly defined.
