Sciential Dashboard

An organization-facing intranet for academic journal editors

This is the 2-min summary!

Full case study here

Skills demonstrated

User Research
Testing
Affinity Mapping
Ideation
Fast Turnaround
Mockup
Prototyping
Iteration
Interview
Information Architecture

Platform

Web - Desktop

Main Tools

Figma
Google meet
Google Suite
Zoom

Date Range

Nov 1 2020
to Nov 23 2020

Intro

Sciential, an academic journal, needed an infrastructure upgrade.

For a class assignment, my team of 5 wanted to design an intranet for some contacts.

Research

Surprisingly, there were no well-known academic journal intranets.

To get further information about what the Sciential team needed, we designed a questionnaire:

Ideation

Based on the data, we all came up with ideas to solve their problems using "how might we" questions.

Ideas are nothing if we don't know how to organize and use them. We organized our ideas into a prioritization matrix.

It was time to put these ideas into designs!

Low-fi designs and testing

For our low fidelity, I made a sitemap with all the features in the right places.

I made some rough sketches for element layouts, and built a Balsamiq prototype.

Test Results  - Senior Editor

The good:

  • Liked the idea of the intranet
  • Liked the whiteboard feature
  • Understood icons and most labels
  • Understood the site layout

Changes to implement:

  • Include a profile menu
  • Flesh out chat bar
  • Add "attached documents" feature
  • Flesh out scheduling tool
  • ... and much more

Mid-fi designs and testing

After the feedback and some time in Figma, I made our Mid-Fidelity.​

Test Results  - Senior Editor and Illustrator

The good:

  • Excited to see progress
  • Imagines it being productive
  • Likes "linked documents"
  • Likes document-specific chat

Changes to implement:

  • Add review procss for editors
  • Demonstrate how chat works
  • How document editorial phases work
  • Add a files pending review panel
  • ... and much more

Hi-fi designs and testing

Incorporating the last set of feedback, I created our High-Fidelity!

Lessons Learned