Immerse Chart Editor

This project was also a perfect opportunity to demonstrate my "Bookends  Method" approach to product design.  This is counter to the 80/20 rule. If you are unfamiliar with the 80/20 rule, this method attempts to focus the majority of the design on what 80% of the user would do. In have always felt that this method is flawed due to it leaving out two main personas; the novice and the expert. Completely opposite, my bookends method focuses on designing for these two personas and as a result by taking this approach, if we succeed we will provide a UI that meets the needs of just about every user in between. By focusing half our efforts on the less sophisticated users it forces us to think about ways to make the UI simple and obvious. This approach also lets us evaluate what are essential interactions versus the interactions where users will want to push the boundaries. 

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A secondary but related goal was to test the idea of being able to consolidate and introduce new charts into a single chart editing experience. Basically, I pushed our team to create a UI that allowed our users to progressively build charts in the way that their data leads them rather than the current experience where the users had to choose the chart type first then build the chart.