Simplifying

Textile 2023 week 48 note

When designing a user experience (UX), we designers often get deep into the weeds of the user interface (UI). We create screens, share them and then talk about them in meetings and keep on keeping on expanding and honing them till we feel we’ve come to decent, presentable and testable solutions to technical user problems and needs. This week we took a stab at rethinking the navigation to explore what we’ve learned through two rounds of user testing and seeing how we can both simplify the amount of steps and screens the user needs to go through, thus making it faster, but also less prone to error for the user. We realised that managing tables is one thing, but managing tables and their deployments is even more complicated so we would need a new way of being able to navigate around them. This required taking a completely new look at the UI and reworking how we thought about it’s organisation.