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Elevated the UX with thoughtful accessibility, turned constraints into opportunities, and made color-coded UIs color-independent
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Results
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“Quick actions” positioned at the point of interaction, plus keyboard shortcuts, enable faster workflows with fewer clicks. Less reliance on deep dropdowns improves comfort and speed. By providing only what’s needed when and where it’s needed, the design enhances focus and eliminates side quests to find things.
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Highest-Impact Result
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The backstory behind these results:
Before: Pain Points
Manual, labor-intensive, and error-prone processes. (Representative image)
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Low-fidelity, faulty, and untrustworthy “XYZXYZ 1234567”.
Impact? Jeopardized safety, and caused missed XYZXYZ and XYZYXZ.
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The Tough Problem (in 1 sentence)
After: Solutions
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4 specific UX improvements I designed and their impacts
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Pain point:
“Safety is a constant concern [for people ].”
—Researcher shadowing operators
Impact:
- Significantly improved safety and user satisfaction.
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- Reduced errors and improved task accuracy.
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Pain point:
—Researcher shadowing operators
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Impact:
- Significantly improved safety and user satisfaction.
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- Reduced errors and improved task accuracy.
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Pain point in user’s words:
—Operator
Advantages of a circle menu (aka radial/pie menu)
- Fitts’ Law and faster selection – Fitts’ Law states that the time it takes to hit a target depends on the target size and distance. In circle menus, all options are the same distance from the center, minimizing mouse movement time and making them faster than dropdowns for high-frequency actions. (NN/g analysis)
- Muscle memory benefits – The circular arrangement allows users to develop muscle memory for frequently used options, speeding up interactions over time while reducing errors.
- Better ergonomics – Less mouse movement lowers strain, making interactions more comfortable and reducing fatigue over long sessions.
- Space-efficient design – The circular layout takes up less screen space than dropdowns or rectangular menus, making it ideal for compact interfaces and reducing visual clutter.
Impact:
- Significantly improved safety and user satisfaction.
- Considerably increased lorem ipsum.
- Reduced errors and improved task accuracy.
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Pain point in user’s words:
—Operator
Operators aren’t required to memorize lorem.
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Impact:
- Significantly improved safety and user satisfaction.
- Considerably increased lorem ipsum.
- Reduced errors and improved task accuracy.
See other UX improvements:
UX IMPROVEMENT
#1
Reimagined lorem Ipsum: Replaced trial-and-error with advanced UI solutions for precision and speed, catering to both expert and novice users
UX IMPROVEMENT
#2
Elevated the UX with thoughtful accessibility, turned constraints into opportunities, and made color-coded UIs color-independent
UX IMPROVEMENT
#3
Enhanced situational awareness: Going from 2D awareness and juggling 12 monitors, to now having 4D awareness all on one bar
#2
Specific UX Improvement: Lorem ipsum dolor sitme (XX min read)
Elevated the UX with thoughtful accessibility, turned constraints into opportunities, and made color-coded UIs color-independent
Results
from this UX improvement
Proactively ensured UI accessibility compliance without being asked
Thus future-proofing the design to be inclusive from the start and avoiding costly redesigns later.
Increased inclusivity with accessible visuals and flexible controls
Such as using eye-friendly tones, and multiple modes, to reduce operator errors and improve comfort.
Maintained operator efficiency with familiar color-coding
Thus reducing re-training needs in that aspect, and smoothing the transition to the new color system.
Balanced styling with accessibility to meet both visual and functional needs
Such as using shape-based indicators and contrast adjustments.
The backstory behind these results:
Before & After: Software Design
Legacy software
Example of accessibility issues:
Legacy software
Example of accessibility issues:
Before & After: Human Impact
Legacy software
Accessibility issues led to:
Redesigned software
Accessibility solutions resulted in:
Before: Pain Points
The legacy software was very outdated, and because of its age, it did not follow many accessibility (or usability) standards.
The Tough Problem (in 2 sentence)
After: Solutions
The answer:
Accessibility does not make a product ugly, boring, or non-innovative. Rather, it presents design constraints that lead to a better product for all users.
My thought process:
My solution:
With that, I designed the new UI to follow the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). I wanted to ensure that if or when this went through a <123456 12> test process, anything that I had control over with the design, was designed accessibly to the best of my ability at the time.
Example: Specifically how I turned jarring color-coded interfaces into easy, color-independent ones
People really liked, and were used to, the color-coding in the legacy system. For example, on the schedule:
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Backed by that research, I made the design
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- Used comfortable tones
I used more comfortable tones of the colors, not the pure RGB versions, and ensured they were contrast-compliant with all of their possible backgrounds.
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- Prevented visual “screaming”
To prevent the colors from screaming, I didn’t use solid fills on the blocks. On the interface, there are 16+ rows, so that means an average of 30 colored blocks are shown at any given time. When they’re all colored solid that not only makes the UI look wild, but as we all know, when everything is jostling to stand out, nothing is standing out.
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- Ensured that the color coding was colorblind-friendly
To achieve this, I added shapes to accompany each status color change. This ensures that if an , current or future, is colorblind or gets colors transposed (e.g., red and green), the UIs will remain usable and not the culprit of errors.
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- Color-dependent design
Shown in grayscale, simulating the most severe colorblindness:
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What’s the status of each of these task blocks? (You can’t tell.)
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Statuses are indicated by different colors. Aside from that, all task blocks share the same shape structure. (Not good.)
- Color-independent design
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Thanks to unique shapes, the status of each task is distinguishable.
Now shown in color:
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Color is no longer the sole signifier of the visual information.
Color is no longer the one and only signifier. If an person cannot distinguish a color, the shape is the primary signifier that communicates the task’s status.
(Even without a diagnosed medical disability, everyday situations can affect a person’s abilities. When someone uses a blue light filter on their screen it changes the appearance of blue-toned colors, creating a situational challenge similar to a color vision deficiency. This is just one of countless examples.)
Result
See other UX improvements:
UX IMPROVEMENT
#1
Reimagined lorem Ipsum: Replaced trial-and-error with advanced UI solutions for precision and speed, catering to both expert and novice users
UX IMPROVEMENT
#2
Elevated the UX with thoughtful accessibility, turned constraints into opportunities, and made color-coded UIs color-independent
UX IMPROVEMENT
#3
Enhanced situational awareness: Going from 2D awareness and juggling 12 monitors, to now having 4D awareness all on one bar
#3
Specific UX Improvement: Lorem ipsum dolor sitme (XX min read)
Enhanced situational awareness: Going from 2D awareness and juggling 12 monitors, to now having 4D awareness all on one bar
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Results
from this UX improvement
Improved task prioritization and completion rates
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Upgraded situational awareness
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The backstory behind these results:
Before: Pain Points
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The Tough Problem (in 1 sentence)
After: Solutions
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Research-driven improvements: Used interview transcripts, researchers’ notes, and feedback to drive design decisions—(e.g., the priority of what content to put on the situational awareness bar, where, and how)
Summary:
Quick Facts:
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Key Outcomes:
Integrated cross-functional feedback
Aligned evolving design strategies
Reduced friction in user flows
Example: Specifically how I turned jarring color-coded interfaces into easy, color-independent ones
The situational awareness bar on the interface displays:
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Pre-work that backed up my design decisions:
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Pre-work that backed up my design decisions:
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See other UX improvements:
UX IMPROVEMENT
#1
Reimagined lorem Ipsum: Replaced trial-and-error with advanced UI solutions for precision and speed, catering to both expert and novice users
UX IMPROVEMENT
#2
Elevated the UX with thoughtful accessibility, turned constraints into opportunities, and made color-coded UIs color-independent
UX IMPROVEMENT
#3
Enhanced situational awareness: Going from 2D awareness and juggling 12 monitors, to now having 4D awareness all on one bar