PROTOTYPE (BEFORE) : Manual and Time-Consuming
PROBLEM OBSERVED
RESEARCH
AND
DISCOVERY
Conducted one-on-one meetings with the Release Manager and leadership team to understand current pain points, tracking challenges, and expectations from the dashboard.
STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS
HEURISTIC EVALUATION
I conducted a heuristic evaluation of how currently version issues are tracked to identify usability gaps.
The assessment revealed issues such as poor visibility of system status and lack of hierarchy in information presentation, all of which made it harder for leadership to interpret release data quickly.
IMPACT
PROTOTYPE (AFTER): Streamlined and Insight-Driven
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Streamlining Version Release Tracking
for Clarity and Control
“The new dashboard makes it easy to see what issues are still pending and what’s moving forward.”
“Having everything in one view really helps us make quicker decisions during version reviews.”
Faster decision-making
for leadership teams
Reduced manual tracking
for release managers
Improved visibility
of deferred issues across cycles
Product Designer + Developer (me)
Leadership Team
Release Manager
Development Team
TEAM
1.5 months
TIMELINE
Identified key pain points through conversations with release managers and leadership stakeholders.
This process needs to be repeated for each version to retrieve the counts of solved, pending, and transferred issues.
Data was scattered making it difficult to get an accurate, up-to-date picture.
Without consolidated dashboards or visual summaries, leaders couldn’t quickly identify bottlenecks.
There was no clear history of which issues had been not fixed, fixed, or carried forward.
Manual and Time-Consuming Tracking
Issues in Decision-Making
Limited Traceability Across Versions
Due to NDA restrictions, the visuals and content have been recreated and anonymized to protect proprietary details.
While I can’t share more specifics, I’d love to connect and chat about the project!
The value of clarity
Designing and developing for leadership taught me that clarity matters more than anything. As decision-makers, they don’t just want information, they want trustworthy, structured visibility. I learned that clear hierarchy and reliable data often mean more to them than aesthetics ever could.
Collaboration is as important as design
Working closely with the Release Managers and leadership team made me realize how powerful good communication can be. Asking the right questions at the right time helped me understand their real pain points and saved a lot of back-and-forth later, especially since their time was limited.
Designing Simplicity
Turning a complicated workflow into an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard was a real challenge. It taught me to focus on what truly matters to the user instead of trying to make everything look polished. Sometimes, less really is more.
PROTOTYPE (BEFORE) : Manual and Time-Consuming
PROBLEM OBSERVED
RESEARCH
AND
DISCOVERY
Conducted one-on-one meetings with the Release Manager and leadership team to understand current pain points, tracking challenges, and expectations from the dashboard.
STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS
HEURISTIC EVALUATION
I conducted a heuristic evaluation of how currently version issues are tracked to identify usability gaps.
The assessment revealed issues such as poor visibility of system status and lack of hierarchy in information presentation, all of which made it harder for leadership to interpret release data quickly.
IMPACT
PROTOTYPE (AFTER): Streamlined and Insight-Driven
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Streamlining Version Release Tracking
for Clarity and Control
“The new dashboard makes it easy to see what issues are still pending and what’s moving forward.”
“Having everything in one view really helps us make quicker decisions during version reviews.”
Faster decision-making
for leadership teams
Reduced manual tracking
for release managers
Improved visibility
of deferred issues across cycles
Product Designer + Developer (me)
Leadership Team
Release Manager
Development Team
TEAM
1.5 months
TIMELINE
Identified key pain points through conversations with release managers and leadership stakeholders.
SOFTWARE
5 Issues
ID
NO.
NAME
VERSION
TEAM
A 01
1
Issue 1
Version 1
Team A
A 02
2
Issue 2
Version 1
Team B
A 03
3
Issue 3
Version 1
Team A
A 04
4
Issue 4
Version 2
Team A
A 05
5
Issue 5
Version 3
Team C
This process needs to be repeated for each version to retrieve the counts of solved, pending, and transferred issues.
Data was scattered making it difficult to get an accurate, up-to-date picture.
Without consolidated dashboards or visual summaries, leaders couldn’t quickly identify bottlenecks.
There was no clear history of which issues had been not fixed, fixed, or carried forward.
Manual and Time-Consuming Tracking
Issues in Decision-Making
Limited Traceability Across Versions
Due to NDA restrictions, the visuals and content have been recreated and anonymized to protect proprietary details.
While I can’t share more specifics, I’d love to connect and chat about the project!
The value of clarity
Designing and developing for leadership taught me that clarity matters more than anything. As decision-makers, they don’t just want information, they want trustworthy, structured visibility. I learned that clear hierarchy and reliable data often mean more to them than aesthetics ever could.
Collaboration is as important as design
Working closely with the Release Managers and leadership team made me realize how powerful good communication can be. Asking the right questions at the right time helped me understand their real pain points and saved a lot of back-and-forth later, especially since their time was limited.
Designing Simplicity
Turning a complicated workflow into an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard was a real challenge. It taught me to focus on what truly matters to the user instead of trying to make everything look polished. Sometimes, less really is more.