Reimagining the Shuup admin dashboard
Kertész, Tamás (2019)
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019052712160
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019052712160
Tiivistelmä
Web design and development is a complex process that has many considerations that affect the results. Users lie at the centre of these reflections as they are the ones who interact with the products developers and designers create. There are tried and true principles and methodologies designers can employ to ensure a baseline quality that boils down to user experience.
The aim of this thesis is to find out what the guiding principles of digital product design are and how to apply them to a real-world project. The project in question is the improvement of the admin dashboard of the e-commerce software, Shuup. It is a relevant use-case and an accurate representation of the average work a designer or developer toils on in the software industry.
The utilised methodologies deal with the theoretical practices that are accomplished by user experience researchers. This sheds light on aspects that deal with the underlying and unseen, such as information architecture, navigation, user research, user testing, iteration and so forth. These areas of research are the foundation for apps and websites, they answer the How, Why and Where of development.
The work which this thesis is based on was executed in the summer of 2018 as part of the Junior Developer role at Anders Innovations in Turku. The results were shipped in September of the same year and is available in the latest release of Shuup e-commerce software.
The aim of this thesis is to find out what the guiding principles of digital product design are and how to apply them to a real-world project. The project in question is the improvement of the admin dashboard of the e-commerce software, Shuup. It is a relevant use-case and an accurate representation of the average work a designer or developer toils on in the software industry.
The utilised methodologies deal with the theoretical practices that are accomplished by user experience researchers. This sheds light on aspects that deal with the underlying and unseen, such as information architecture, navigation, user research, user testing, iteration and so forth. These areas of research are the foundation for apps and websites, they answer the How, Why and Where of development.
The work which this thesis is based on was executed in the summer of 2018 as part of the Junior Developer role at Anders Innovations in Turku. The results were shipped in September of the same year and is available in the latest release of Shuup e-commerce software.