Final Design of in-store sales application

Project Overview

Project Brief

• Midtown Lumber is a family owned lumber yard in New York City. The company has operated for over 50+ years, specializing in cutting wood to custom, exact sizes. 

• Midtown Lumber’s specialty as a business is cutting custom size wood orders. The process for creating the quotes was slow and inconsistent. 

• This process needed to be sped up and easier for new salespeople to create custom sized wood cutting orders. 

• The goal of the project was to create an app that could make the process for creating these orders simpler and faster. 

My Role

• My role was to develop a process, tool and logic to consistently develop quotes for custom cut wood projects. 

• Create logical ranges in price based on the square foot (ft²) of the custom piece

• Design the UX and UI of an application for a tablet that can integrate with the POS

Key Project Goal

• The goal of this project was to create a process where  quotes on custom cutting orders were done in a fast, easy and consistent way. The process needed to be simple enough to train any new salesperson how to use it quickly.

Understanding the User

User Research

The user research for this project was an ongoing discussion with the two owners of the business. I met with them to discuss past orders, how they would create custom orders, and develop prices. 

Pain Points

• Custom pricing. There was not one set way to develop a price so there would be different prices. This lead to a lack of consistency when developing prices

• Took too long. Because the prices were being developed manually, the process for creating orders took a long time creating a bottleneck in the work to be doneEnter your text here...

User Flow

Hand drawn Wireframes

These wireframes were recently drawn to improve on the old mockups and prototypes that were made. The new product is to be specifically designed for a tablet.

Wireframes and prototypes in Moqups

These were the first iteration of wireframes and Moqups I made if the application was a desktop or mobile app

Tablet Wireframe Figma

Below are newer versions of designs for the Cutting Calculator project. The goal is to update the design while moving the product to tablet to integrate into the Point of Sales system

Takeaways & Next Steps

Midtown Lumber continue to uses this tool to process orders more efficiently and train salespeople quicker.

The next step for this case study is to prototype more features in the most current versions of the UI designs.