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Product Designer, UX/UI.

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1 Sprint (5 days)

A consolidated, context-aware “Action Bar” enhances usability by reducing cognitive load and improving task efficiency. Standardizing its location and adapting its content to user needs will ensure a seamless and intuitive dashboard experience.

Designed for city hive inc.

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Our objective is to understand user needs, preferences, and usability considerations for a unified “Action Bar” design that provides context-relevant actions (e.g., “Duplicate,” “Delete,” “Schedule,” “Print”) across multiple dashboard pages.

Contextual Inquiry:

  1. Observed users interacting with dashboards in their workflows.
  2. Identified patterns in accessing and performing actions across pages
 

User Interviews:

  1. Conducted interviews to understand users’ expectations for accessing actions.
  2. Explored frustrations with inconsistent or redundant action placements.
 

Surveys:

  1. Prototyped consolidated action bar designs and tested with users.
  2. Measured task completion times, error rates, and satisfaction.
 

Competitive Analysis:

  1. Reviewed action bar implementations in other tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Jira).
  2. Identified successful approaches and usability challenges.

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