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Tabular Editor
Date
December 2019 - June 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:
Feature Enhancement
Overview:
As part of our process we worked with our development teams to figure out where innovation would meet feasibility. Our team wanted to keep the wireframes low-fidelity to focus our discussions on interactions and avoid being derailed by the look and feel.
The Challenge:
The culture of CD-Adapco, the legacy company that created Star CCM+ was engineering-centric, but that came with both a preference to focus on functionality and constraints on user access and a reluctance to adopt modern UX best practices. These designs were part of our process to create buy-in from the engineering teams.
My Role:
This project didn't just challenge me with presenting innovations, but it also forced me to cultivate techniques to facilitate stakeholder buy-in and generate cultural shifts.
Outcomes:
• These designs were part of a process that won our stakeholders over.
• Engineering teams adopted several of these presented methods and incorporated some of these innovations into our current offerings.
• Our team broke cultural constraints and these concepts showed our stakeholders enough to grant us access to customers. This alone changed a self-imposed decades old constraint on user-research for anybody outside of product management.
Connect with me:
In support of development of our next-generation offering we explored the concept of incorporating a tabular editor that could be used in our current UI as well as any future solutions.
