Role: Freelance Product Designer
Description: mTAB Dashboards are configurable, multi-source dashboards that combine analyses and KIPs all in one web application. Historically, mTAB has built custom dashboards for each client. In their efforts to productize their offering, mTAB brought me on to do a full redesign of their dashboard product.
The main challenge of this project was bringing together all functionality that lives in current dashboards and combine them into one user-friendly dashboard system. Today, mTAB data analysts can now use the dashboard builder to build highly customizable dashboards all using the same design system. This allows them to produce high quality results for their clients in a fraction of the time.
I designed modular system where components can be mix and matched without breaking the user experience. To start, I created multiple quick wireframes outlining all the different ways components can work together. This included exploring horizontal and vertical layouts.
Those wireframes quickly turned into experimentation around how each component would work together. These are some early, low fidelity mockups that show some of the concepts. After feedback on the modular concept from the product and engineering teams I dove into refining each component according to specific functionality requirements.
When adding new features I often come up with multiple solutions that achieve the same goal. Then, I present these to product and engineering for discussion. This is an example of multiple solutions to an ‘apply all’ feature.
Each dashboard can be customized to fit customer needs. Combining the modular system and spot color branding made this possible.
Search lives at the top of the navigation panel. Fuzzy find search was also implemented for ease of use.
Some clients will have multiple dashboards displaying varying groups of data. The index panel allows users to quickly access different dashboards. There are multiple levels of nesting for different dashboard and chart types.
Selectors and filters are the bread and butter of the mTAB app. This functionality is typically only used a few times for set up. For that reason, we added the ability to save selections and filters to be applied at different times. Users can access and toggle on/off various selections on different charts throughout the app.
The storyboard functionality can be used at any time while you are analyzing the data. Once you have a data set with the correct filters and selections you can quickly add it to your story. These stories can then be exported to native powerpoint.
Sometimes client requests are as simple as that. In addition to working on the main product, I was asked to update the visuals of the internal tool used to build the dashboards.
I created a formal design system to
aid in the development and future upgrades of the platform. Themeing was a large challenge to tackle for this project. Users can set the primary, secondary and tertiary colors to be applied throughout the product. Different rules will be used depending on if they have a high contrast or low contrast theme.
