Led user interface design and usability engineering effort for Hyperion's successful next generation financial planning and analysis software application (1.0). Defined web application user interface model adopted across company's new web-based applications. This is the home page where users begin their budgeting and planning process. Here's the first piece of marketing collatoral for Hyperion Planning, the product I led the User Experience effort on.
Led user interface design and usability engineering effort for Hyperion's successful next generation financial planning and analysis software application (1.0), Hyperion Planning. Defined web application user interface model adopted across company's new web-based applications. This is the home page where users would begin their budgeting and planning process.
Here's a page from the first marketing collatoral for Hyperion Planning, the product I led the User Experience effort on. This shows one of the early designs for the home page where users would begin their budgeting and planning process.
Led user interface design of Hyperion's successful next generation financial planning and analysis software application (1.0). This is a budgeting data entry screen.
Led user interface design of Hyperion's successful next generation financial planning and analysis software application (1.0). This is another view of a budgeting data entry screen.
I planned a full range of user research activities throughout the design and development lifecycle. I conducted early discovery research on the Budgeting and Planning product. I conducted field research and facilitated Task Analysis sessions with high priority customers in the United States and Europe. This diagram shows how budget information flows through the customer's organization. This research provided a foundation of understanding to model the budget review feature.
I conducted early discovery research for the next generation Budgeting and Planning product. I facilitated Task Analysis sessions with high priority customers in the United States and Europe. This diagram shows the task-flow for the budget review process. This research provided a foundation of understanding and directly impacted the product requirements definition and design strategy.
I conducted early discovery research for the next generation Budgeting and Planning product. I conducted Field Research and facilitated Task Analysis sessions with high priority customers in the United States and Europe. This diagram shows the task-flow for Target Setting. This research provided a foundation of understanding and directly impacted the product requirements definition and design strategy.
I wrote detailed user interface design specifications across all features. The specs went through a review process with key project stakeholders. I updated the designs based on review feedback. This image is a page from the Process Management functional specification, one of the most important features of the product.
I planned a full range of user research activities throughout the design and development lifecycle. This is a slide from a presentation I gave on the results of a usability study I conducted with 10 customers. Usability issues were identified and the design was iterated upon based on the issues uncovered in the research.
I planned a full range of user research activities throughout the design and development lifecycle. This is a slide from a presentation I gave on the results of a usability study I conducted with 10 customers. This graph shows the task completion rates for the form creation and form management tasks.
I planned a full range of user research activities throughout the design and development lifecycle. Here is a page with overview information on a Usability Study results report I wrote. I conducted the usability study with 10 customers. Usability issues were identified and the design was iterated based on the issues uncovered in the research.
I planned a full range of user research activities throughout the design and development lifecycle. Here is a page from a Usability Study Results Report I wrote.These results show overall task completion rates, and the tasks with the highest and lowest subjective ease of use ratings.
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Hyperion - Interaction Design & User Research
Led user interface design and usability engineering effort for Hyperion's successful next generation financial planning and analysis software application. Managed user centered design team effort on project. Tracked and managed in-depth project schedule. Delivered complex design solutions on time, with high quality. Led and taught task analysis methodology now employed company wide. Defined web application user interface model adopted across company's web based applications. Created user interface storyboard documents and conceptual prototypes. Wrote detailed user interface design specifications across all features of Windows and Web platforms. Led and managed user research effort improving usability across entire product design.
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Freelance, Full-time
Monica Heidelberg
User Experience Designer, Strategist, Researcher
San Francisco, CA