I began the project by discussing and reviewing the requirements, which led to whiteboarding sessions, wireframing, and ultimately creating full visual mockups. One of the main challenges was that, despite having only four end-users, each had different feature requests and preferred to search the data in various ways. To address this, I decided to focus on delivering the basics for phase 1, with plans to incorporate additional functionality in later phases.

 

In this initial phase, presented here, I aimed to create a simple interaction that allowed users to manually add data and generate a table that could be sorted and searched according to their specific needs. The existing system relied on spreadsheets to manage a few hundred projects simultaneously, so the primary goal was to transition them away from spreadsheets to a more efficient data sorting system.

 

The screens presented represent the wireframing process and the first round of visual mockups, all designed using existing brand guidelines, fonts, and colors. Given the variability in the amount of data users had, I needed to develop a home dashboard that displayed various data points for interaction. The header colors in the dashboard indicate different flavor groups—such as savory, sweet, tangy, and others—and the breakdown of each project features a nomenclature hierarchy that extends about 15 layers deep, which can be adjusted based on the user's requirements.