My Role: Information Architecture, Wireframing
Time Frame: 2 & 1/2 week sprint.
Tools Used: Axure, Adobe Xd, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Marvel.
HiveWise is the rebranded redesign of an innovative group-brainstorming software formerly known as the Deliberatorium.
“The Deliberatorium is an online platform that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to help large numbers of people, distributed in space and time, combine their insights to find well-founded solutions for complex multi-stakeholder multi-disciplinary problems.”
The Goal
My team was given the task of completely overhauling the UX, UI, and branding of the Deliberatorium so that the platform could be more usable and engaging for a broad spectrum of users.
The original Deliberatorium.
The Research
The concept behind the software is highly complex, so fully understanding the product, its competitors, and its users, was as labor intensive as it was essential.
Wireframing Iterations
As the information architect for this project, my responsibility was to redesigned the UI so that it could display massive amounts of user-generated information, while being intuitive enough for users to proactively organize that information in to a logical hierarchy that is free of redundancy. This process led to many different iterations, each of which was tested for usability, navigability, and flow.
Rebranding & Styling for Accessibility
HiveWise style and branding guidelines.
The Deliberatorium in its original form had no style or branding guidelines to speak of, which left a lot of space for growth. My team took advantage of this freedom to rename and rebrand the Deliberatorium, and in this process rebuild from the ground up for section 508 compatibility. Now the newly rebranded HiveWise is a viable product for government and medical field clients.
Clickable Prototype
After testing over a dozen iterations, we found if a user had a particular information configuration that they preferred, they generally indicated that they preferred it by a wide margin. This testing informed the design of the final iteration, an interface where the user is given the power to customize the layout and configuration of the information to most closely match their needs and preferences.
Try the clickable prototype: Link
Final clickable prototype.
Versatility was high priority in the design of HiveWise. In addition to designing for scaleability and section 508 compliance, we wanted to build the interface with enough flexibility to allow for third-party branding. To illustrate this built-in versatility, I designed an alternate brand overlay featuring General Assembly's style guidelines.
