Usability Enhancements

1. Research & Discovery

Goal: Gain a deep understanding of the users, their needs, and the problem you're solving.
Requirements:
- Expand the platform's capabilities to include a notification center that will aggregate and display real-time notifications for users. It should support various notification types (e.g., alerts, messages, reminders) and allow for interactions (e.g., marking as read, dismissal). The system must be scalable, efficient, and capable of handling large volumes of notifications without performance degradation.

Design research: Dribble inspiration

In-app notification

Design research: Dribble inspiration

In-app notification center by organized by category/type

Design research

Hierarchy of priorities

2. Ideation

Goal: Create high-fidelity versions of the product to test and iterate before final development.
- Design Adjustments: Make necessary revisions to wireframes, prototypes, or high-fidelity designs based on insights gathered during testing.
- Design Systems: Define design patterns and reusable UI components.

Ideation

UI notes: organize notifications by type; highlight high priority tasks that require immediate user feedback; create visual system for high, medium, low; establish a design system for all top nav interactions

Ideation

UI notes: refine category types

Ideation

UI notes: refine category types; define pattern for medium priority notifications

Ideation

UI notes: alt visual design for high priority notifications; list item background color

Ideation

UI notes: alt visual design for high priority notifications; icon inline

Ideation

UI notes: alt visual design for high priority notifications; vertical color bar

Ideation

UI notes: alt visual design for high priority notifications; icon & CTA in the right column

Alert design pattern

UI notes: high priority signal (red dot)

Alert design pattern

UI notes: medium priority signal (orange dot)

Alert design pattern

UI notes: low priority signal (blue dot)

Alert design pattern

UI notes: new feature/platform announcement signal (celebration emoji)

3. Visual Design & Prototyping

Goal: Finalize the product's visual aesthetics and prepare assets for development.
- Prototypes: Develop interactive prototypes to simulate how the product will function, either in low-fidelity (basic interaction) or high-fidelity (almost production-level quality).