Product

IBM NS1 traffic steering

Product designer

Team

Product designer

Product manager

Technical documentation

Back end engineers

Front end development

Make a feature be a network troubleshooting tool it was intended to be instead of the data visual tool it is behaving as.

When a website experiences a slowdown or an error the immediate thing to check is if it is dealing with a network issue.

Pulsar helps companies keep their websites performing well by automatically steering their website traffic to the best servers at the right time. Companies can see the results of the automatic solution but not why. I need to make

Pulsar is not just a data tool but it needs to be tool that gets users to the next steps in understanding why an error might be occurring

In this feature build I solved for…

  • Pulsar automation solution behaving as a blackbox. I found a way to show clarity and data for a solution that doesn’t have clear data backing its results and decisions 

  • Transitioning to a new design system while making one of the largest updates to the feature so I had to make fast decisions and updates to the designs when a blocker occurred with both back end and front end development 

  • I designed with ambiguity as I had to work in parallel with back end as they did not know what was and was not possible 

Design process

  1. Defined requirements with Product in discovery 

  2. User interviews with low fi prototypes 

  3. User interviews with mid fi prototypes

  4. Hi fidelity hand off with development

  5. Design iterations based of development limitations 

Big wins

Largest feature update for the product that was successfully released and it caused a +73.1% spike in customers on the page.

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