Knowledge Boosting Diamonds

Hello again! Today we are going to talk about user experience goals for our product which we introduced a few blog posts ago. First thing to remember when searching for UX goals is that the whole point of our product is to boost knowledge sharing and information flow within and between projects. So not only does our product need to have helpful information but also it needs to be easily accessible and in a right form.   After reminding ourselves about the facts above we have found three user experience goals to aim for when developing our product and the interactive prototype. We have based these goals on Nielsen’s (2020) usability heuristics and Normans (2013) seven fundamental principles of design.  First user experience goal we determined is consistency. By which we intend making the product clear with consistently named and marked links, consistent mapping and implementation in accordance with standards. As Jacob’s Law says, users spend most of their time on other sites (2...

Hi everyone! 💙 We are so excited to show you our wireframe. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website's content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together.     We started by looking for a suitable free tool for drawing wireframes. There are many different options of tools on the Internet, but we chose the following three for a closer look: Adobe XD, Balsamiq and Moqups. Our final choice was Balsamiq because we liked the controls, and it was easy to use.    The first page of our wireframe shows the situation when the company is about to use our product. There is no information about projects. When clicking the plus button (+), opens a window where the user can give project information. The user gives the name of the project, the necessary information, people of the project and keywords. The user will be the responsible person for the shared information.    When the user has given all informat...

Hello folks and welcome back to KBD blog! Today we will present our MVP solution, which we have developed based on the interviews we had with Solita’s employees! But first, we will let you guys know our new member Kirsi a little better! Hi everyone! My name is Kirsi and I've worked as a software developer / designer for over 30 years. Today, I am very interested in the customer experience, so I decided to participate in this course. I think happy customers are the best reward for my work. In my free time I like gardening and hiking in the woods. I am also keen on travelling. Figure 1. Our Kirsi! So, Kirsi’s experience on software development field is valuable to us and Kirsi is a perfect match to our team! But, without further parley, we present our Value Proposition Canvas. The idea of this canvas is to precisely define  pains and gains  our customer profile face while getting their jobs done and also, it visualizes the value we create in our offering (Strategyzer 2020). We c...

Hello and a warm welcome to Knowledge Based Diamond’s sixth blogpost! 😍 Crazy how fast time has gone and to think that today started the last study period for this academic year. First some exciting news. Our team grew with one new member. It is our pleasure to warmly welcome Kirsi Helminen to join our amazing KBD team! 💎 Hopefully Kirsi gets the opportunity to introduce herself in the next blogpost so you can also get to know her a bit better.  😊 The main idea of this blogpost is to approach our assignment’s topic from a more theoretical view. In other words, in this post we’ll dig deep to literature. The purpose of this is to deepen our own understanding and knowledge about our topic which was “How to boost knowledge sharing and learning within and between projects at Solita”. We believe that we will benefit a lot from this literature research and hopefully as a result of this, our next more empirical blogposts will be even better. Also, just to make clear and remind all you r...