Scispot - location manager

Redesigning the information hierarchy of a location manager for samples

Project Context

Scope

The scope of this design challenge was to completely redesign the UI of the location manager, while making minimal changes to the backend. The goal of this project was to make the information hierarchy more intuitive, by more closely mimicking the physical lab space in which our users would be storing their samples.

What was my role?

This project was completed on my own, with support and feedback from my design mentor (the founding designer) at Scispot.

First, let's take a look at current designs

Lacks spacing between items

Too many levels of collapsing/expanding makes it difficult to see root locations once they are all expanded

Colours for tags lack contrast (inaccessible)

Difficult to use star, delete, and add buttons on the right hand side because users cannot tell which row they are associated with

"Create new root location" CTA simply creates new untitled root location in the directory, users must then manually rename and edit it

Rows lack dividers, so become hard to read from left to right

Now here are the redesigns!

Storage manager - root locations

Create new root location

Create new freezer

View root location

View freezer

STILL NOT CONVINCED❓

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