Studio Developer
Defining the user experience for a broad product suite
Creating a Design System
The UX team established a design system to ensure consistency across products and accelerate design and development. The design system was built to consider the specific needs of each product, as well as general design goals such as 508c AA compliance, and capturing the essence of Wind River's heritage as a leader in embedded computing.
My Role
- Advocate across the organization about the importance of a design system
- Coordinate with Product and Engineering counterparts on prioritizing and implmenting the design system
- Allocate and manage UX team resources in consideration of other needs and priorities
- Collaborate on and provide feedback/guidance for design system deliverables
Team's Role
- Consult with product product teams to understand design goals
- Define visual design, including colors, textures, typefaces, spacing, and alignments
- Create components in Figma
- Document design system specifications for use by UX, Product, and Engineering teams
Designing a Product Suite
Studio Developer is a suite of cloud-based development tools that enable embedded development teams to
rapidly build, test, and deploy applications. The UX team supported the design and iteration of each product in the suite, working to evolve each from MVP versions or proofs of concept to mature products ready for customer adoption.
My Role
- Coordinate with counterparts in Product and Engineering on priorities, resourcing, and release planning
- Allocate and manage UX team resources to meet release goals
- Define overall Studio Developer UX strategy
- Collaborate on and provide feedback/guidance for all UX deliverables
Team's Role
- Perform formative / summative UX research
- Define user journeys, task flows, and explore designs via low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes
- Refine and prepare designs for production
- Collaborate with engineering on implementing designs
Outcome
- The product matured to a desirable DevSecOps solution for customers such as Aptiv, OMRON, and Hyundai Mobis
- 20%-40% workflow performance improvements in software building and scanning reported by customers