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  1. Apr 2025
    1. Understanding these deeper motivations helped us move beyond addressing surface-level frustrations to designing an experience that would truly empower our users to achieve their analytical goals.

      Prototype below looks great

  2. Mar 2025
    1. Disjointed features meant users constantly lost context. One particularly telling quote: "I feel like I'm playing a game of memory, trying to remember what I set up in five different places."

      Love all these quotes you're incorporating

    2. This case study demonstrates how user-centered design principles can transform complex enterprise tools into intuitive experiences.

      repeat of first sentence in previous paragraph, change 1!

    1. This case study demonstrates how user-centered design principles can transform complex enterprise tools into intuitive experiences. You'll learn how targeted UX research led to practical solutions for power users, how to balance advanced functionality with usability, and how thoughtful information architecture can dramatically reduce cognitive load in specialized software. Whether you're interested in enterprise UX, reporting tools, or redesigning complex systems, this study offers actionable insights into my approach to solving challenging design problems.

      This reads identically or near it to the intro on the aggregration filters case study

    1. The usability testing process highlighted several important lessons for the UX design team:

      "Which I later put into practice in XYZ project" (even if it was one mid-flight that never shipped)

    2. Prototype

      The prototype (and the other one above) is zoomed in to start, or at least zoomed at 100% which doesn't fit in my viewport for it and it looks odd. And I can't interact with it, I just see "interaction notes"

    3. Boris Yanovsky

      I would not use real people's names without their consent. This will show up in professional google searches. I'd just say, "Participant, Session 1" and so on)

    4. The usability testing involved five 40-minute sessions with a mix of experienced DB authors: two internal Workday users and three external customers. The sessions followed a structured protocol (detailed in the below documents):

      Do you say exactly what your role was in the research? I might have missed it, but you should if I didn't

    5. Controls

      No one knows what this name means, I would define it rather than use the feature name, eg lowercase "end user controls and filters" or something better that you can think of!

    1. click on the title footer in the above image to view prototype in a new window

      This is cumbersome to have to read the instructions -- can they just be a link to the prototype instead? "Click here for prototype," lol

    2. complex data analysis tools

      This is kind of defining Disco Boards, but probably needs to be more explicitly tying the name of it with the description. At some point, not necessarily here.

    3. Discovery Boards

      If you keep "Discovery Boards" throughout your portfolio, be sure to prominently define it (powerful in-house BI tool or whatever) on each page you use it on.

    4. This case study demonstrates how user-centered design principles can transform complex data analysis tools into intuitive experiences.

      This is a repeat of the first sentence of the caption above -- one of them should change