Worked at a contract manufacturing facility for 1.5 years
Transitioned to software and spent last 4 years working for start-ups and small companies
Currently working at Clear Labs since this past year
Seeking a whale 🦈
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Agenda
Building a “simple” UI
Building “Digital Media Exchange”
Building new ad platform integration
Building “Clear View”
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Requirements
User should be able to create, read, update, and delete a concept or form
When relating forms to concepts, there should be a way to give equal or custom weights to the forms
Should show related concepts and forms
Should be able to add connections to related concepts
Should be able to add forms to this concept after shown the related forms
User should be able to search for other concepts or forms, and come back with their respective relations to other concepts and forms
e.g. Search Furious 7 should return forms such as "Fast and the Furious", "Fast and Furious", etc. as well as concepts such as "Vin Diesel", "Paul Walker", etc.
Editor
Search for a Concept or Form and have the ability to edit its attributes, which as the same as the ones you see in Create
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Takeaways
Doesn’t follow good design practices / UX (read: “Design for Non-Designers”)
Not intuitive (read: “Don’t Make Me Think”
The banner on top takes up too much room
Main page gives too many options, doesn’t get to the purpose of what this app is supposed to do (too many clicks)
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Building “Digital Media Exchange”
Coordination between Engineering teams to build a media exchange for publishers
In addition provide analytics for how well each publisher’s videos are doing, in terms of video plays and ad views