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Database Deployment Manager

Enhancing the experience of developers and deployment managers.

Client

Apple

Year

2023-24

Category

Developer Experience

Type of Work

Digi transformation

Developer journeys

Skeuomorphy

The vision of the database deployment manager is ​to enhance the engineering experience of the Ad Platforms engineering teams, by providing a single view where engineers get a visibility into their services and their dependencies deployed across environments and ability to extract the required information.

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Current DDM state

  • Minimalistic UX catering to current DDM features

  • Not scalable for additional features

  • Navigation fragmented with segregated info

Scope for Enhanced UX

  • New UX for existing DDM features

  • Additional feature enhancements in new UX

  • Reporting feature in new UX

  • CI / CD Onboarding (Future Scope)

1. Collaborative Discovery

A collaborative workshop with key stakeholders helped uncover the pain points in the user's daily work and the desirable outcome. This also shed light on key insights pertaining to timeline, criticality, dependencies and complexity of the project.

2. Experience strategy

The scope of the project prioritised the first priority out of the following:

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  1. the product UX and performance enhancement

  2. change management programs to enable adoption

  3. devising feedback mechanism to report bugs and note suggestions

3. Wireframes & Information Architecture

The detailed task flows were arrived at with buy-in of the relevant stakeholders after analysing the pros and cons of various options.

4. Prototype Presentation

5. Delivered Product Demo

Deployment Journey

The future project scope covered the skeuomorphic representation of three concepts that could be adopted as the foundation for the CI/CD pipeline.

6. Concept Sketch

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Metro Route

Focus on a selected zone, while having an overview of the entire journey.

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Solitaire

Focus on the latest stage, in context to the journey history.

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Dominos

Detailed landscape, with active stages highlighted against past and future push.

7. Information Architecture and Attribute Mapping

The concept presentation with relatable journey attributes helped the users and stakeholders align to the larger vision of the enabling product.

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