Design

Problem: We need an app!! That is all I hear from higher ups at our company. The what they don’t realize is the lack of organization and direction is their main hurdle.

I stressed the importance of brainstorming, planning, and developing a strategy in order to get some solid requirements. With previous projects I have seen the waterfall effect of no proper direction and the project time exponentially grows due to improper management. With that said, I followed up with describing the proposed prototype.

Solution: I created a 6 screen prototype using Adobe’s new XD software, to show how we can deconstruct the current thinking and create something that is more useful for the type of hardware the sales team is using on the road. I have taken information that is spread out among different pages and tables of data to show the high level information for the sales person. The user profile acts as their dashboard with that information highlighted. The next screen the possible leads that a sales person might have, and based on their GPS location it shows their distance to that lead. The following screen show a more detailed view of the one lead. And the last page shows the name, address, phone number and a map with the location pinned.

There is still some interactivity that I am rethinking but I’m waiting for the green light to make this a proper project and get some data from the sales team. I will be creating a survey to get their feedback to ascertain their needs and wants from the application we would be building.