Track - CreativeDrive Suite
Mapping the journey
essential research step
Problem description
Track is another platform used by CreativeDrive in their production process. It allows users to manage the necessary assets they are going to use in specific projects, for specific clients. In order to do that, they have an inventory of products they can move and track across different locations according to their needs.
This platform needed some usability improvements that enhance the powerful features it already had, making it user friendly, and standardizing its layouts and look & feel with the rest of the tools that belong to the suite.
The design solution
As usual, the design process started by analyzing the hole platform and understanding every single feature in there. This allows the designer to determine who is using this tool, in what moments, what features are missing and what others aren't used anymore.
The platform has some features related to an inventory management software, and some other characteristics required for its industry nature, such as shipment and sourcing management, looks builder, samples tracking, imports control, among others.
Below you can see some diagrams created in this process that represent the way users interact with the tool according to the client.
Once the research phase is done, we knew the structure and organization needed to build the many interfaces this tool had. With those interfaces, a prototype was built in order to show how the functionalities should work and then perform a testing plan with the most critical scenarios. After validating the new design proposal, we adjusted some details and delivered a prototype that was ready for the UI phase in charge of another team member. Some examples of the interfaces created for this project are shown below, click on the thumbnails to see an expanded detail of them.
