Plan - CreativeDrive Suite
We had several sessions to discuss features, structure and improvements that may be applied in the design proposal.
Problem description
I worked at this project when I was part of the CreativeDrive Latam team. This is a company that creates projects related to photography and video production. In order to do that, they have developed their own softwares that facilite the production process during its different stages.
Plan is one of those tools, it allows producers and other personas to manage a project from the moment the client requires an estimate to start a job, to the moment the job is finished and a payment is received. It means this tool should have a merge of features, most of them related to a management software that allows people to create projects in specific moments and places, but adjusted to this industry nature, where they need specific actions, such as create and send a call sheet for the crew who is going to participate in the project, and have invoicing control.
This is a very powerful tool, however, it had a very old version with a lack of features and necessary elements to optimize its usage.
The design solution
My rol as a designer was to focus first of all on understand this complex platform in order to know all the users involved, the features they needed and the ones that weren't used anymore.
In the research phase I obtained a lot of data that allowed me to build a journey map, which turned out to be a giant diagram with a lot of important information such as functionalities, possible integrations with external platforms and different versions for different user types of the same tool.
This was a very important step in the design process because it made us visualize the project size, what could be solve first and what should be left for another stage, it is very useful for making decisions, understand the structure and explain the platform to other people involved.
Journey map
it covered a company's wall :)
After the initial analysis that basically shaped the design and pointed the path to follow, a new and improved version was proposed for the platform. A prototype was created with all the needed layouts and scenarios we wanted to test. Remote user testing was performed in order to validate the new design. Next you can see some wireframes created in the UX stage of the project, click on the images to see an expanded detail of them.
