Remote Manager
Overview
This project came as a course thesis meaning it was elaborated during the full duration of my Product Designer course, so it really was a whole new experience and a lot of discovery was happening during this time, this is based on a briefing provided by said course, read more below.
Role
Product Designer
Timeline
~8 months
Tools Used
Figma
Google analytics
Brief
Different work models is a really important discussion that belongs even more to recent days, since with the growing technology and the last world pandemic, we got the ascension of how the different ways to conduct daily tasks and work can be and how it can impact the life of the regular worker.
Goal
Create a product that can help remote workers track their work and keep clients/managers update on every step of the process in a easy intuitive way.
Target Users
“I need to keep track of my employee’s work”
“I want a way to keep my client aware of everything on the project without havint do message every single update”
Research
The first step into doing this research was comprehend our users needs and wants, how it can affect and how big of a community it affects.
So after researching overall analytics research based on keywords and online communities and doing a questionnaire the research was finalized.
Insights
Most problems come from offers, workers love it, but there is a lack of enough offers.
The lack of offers comes from a distrust most managers have.
Workers believe it actually increases productivity.
Designing the Product
Considering the scope of the project, and users would navigate and use the app, I planned to design four screens to demonstrate key features within the project and to users accomplish tasks to better understand usability:
Home page.
Projects created.
Project creation.
Project overview.
Designing the Product
Considering the scope of the project, and users would navigate and use the app, I planned to design four screens to demonstrate key features within the project and to users accomplish tasks to better understand usability:
Home page.
Projects created.
Project creation.
Project overview.
Home page
The home page
The first idea would be to have the current projects on, show a social option on the right that serves the same as a social media, to have a chat where you can share the project, updates and ideas.
Wireframe (Mobile first)
First prototype on desktop
Research result and redesign
After going through usability testing, was noted that icon and overall functions were not easily navigated with a user completing task rate of around 30%.
Final prototype
The redesign consisted of achieving a new visual ID and correcting and improving the errors from the last iteration, such as overall view and funcionality. Following this decisions, the idea now is to make it function as a type of social media related to work, where on the home page you could find lastest updates and new regarding the projects and team news.
Projects Created
This page is where most of the work related comes in, as a project and managemnt focused app, this is a important page to have a easy navigation, so it is needed to have a way to search for a specfic project that was submited or is ongoing, with filters and a button to create a new project being visible.
First prototype
Redesign
Nothing much to be added, just build upon the foundation, with a 60% of user task completion.
Project Creation
This is a simple straightforward page, with a simple idead of adding projects with a simple button, to be as easily understood as possible, it should be possible to create a project with different stages and tasks within these stages.
Redesign
With a low research percentage the idea needed to be reformulated. Creating multiple steps as it was previously, with each new stage being a new page and a new step it caused attrition as it blocked an easy start. So, it needed to be simplified as much as possible with the goal of the initialization of a project page could go smoothly.
Project Dashboard
This is the most important page and expected to be the one where the user spend most time, updating or creating new tasks. It needs to summarize project demands and schedule, create an overview so that progress is easily trackable, and easy to understand.
First Prototype
Have a progress bar based on task completion and show a countdown to deadline
Redesign
The whole page needed to be redone, research percetage was low and overall it just didnt fit the idea, as this was the very first prototype I ever created. Keeping the base as to make this as trackable as possible while still being easy to understand and adding the feature to put deliveries all in one place this is the lastest version of the page.
Next steps
User testing, expanding social.
The process should continue with another round of test to check the capacity and goals of the latest version of the website, see if it matches set expectations after that the expansion of the social feature since a lot of it depends a bit on this, the website being a based on a lot of social medias such as Linkedin.
Takeaways
Creating a project, Expanding it, Going through all the design process
This was technically my first ever project so the amount I learned from this is so much, it came as the base of my knowledge while I was going through my course, from the principles of design thinking to micro interactions, to the very basic of what is product design to an experienced designer, because as I said I came back after learning a lot of things in my latest's work experiences and remade a lot of things, I’m very proud of it and I think this is a testment of my career from beginning to end, going through every different stage of design process.
Made by João Victor - 2025
