BC Ministry of Transportation
Senior UI UX Designer


Discovering

Key Responsibilities:

  • Engaged in Agile collaboration through 2-week sprints.

  • Provided design leadership and oversaw the migration from UX Pin to Figma.

  • Focused on clear, inclusive text consistency, developing wireframes and mockups, enhancing accessibility and modernization, improving navigation, and delivering user-centric solutions within tight timelines.

Defining

Goals x Results:

  • Migration to Figma: Transitioning from UX Pin to Figma required careful planning and execution to ensure a smooth migration without disrupting ongoing work. Establishing a new Design System from scratch was also a significant undertaking.

  • Consistency and Standardization: Creating a comprehensive components library and ensuring consistency across all design elements was challenging, especially given the lack of a pre-existing system.

  • Accessibility and Navigation Improvements: Enhancing the product’s accessibility involved thorough testing and iteration to meet the BC Government Design Systems’ standards, improving the user experience.

Product Development

Projects (solutions, wireframes, and mockups):

  • Filter Map, Disposition, Management, Subdivision, and Consolidation tabs: Redesigned icons, pins, and tables.

  • Navigation Improvements: Recommended new navigation for the search bar tool, modal at the center of the map (with page tabs), and organized all the navigation from screen to screen, making it much more user-friendly.

  • Dashboard Notifications Area: Enhanced the user experience by organizing notifications effectively.

Delivering

Client Requirements:

  • Distilled diverse client ideas into cohesive designs through effective communication and iterative feedback loops to align with client expectations.

  • Conducted 1x1 user interviews to identify UI/UX issues and solutions, creating tickets for the whole team.

  • Developed and implemented a new team workflow, including an infographic illustrating the process visually, requiring coordination and buy-in from all team members.

  • Mapped IA workflows of the whole product in Figma.

Evolving

User Feedback Integration:

  • Continuously iterated on designs based on user feedback to improve the product’s usability and functionality.

  • Addressed technical constraints creatively while introducing new features and improvements through collaboration with developers.

Some User and Client Feedback:

  • "You are making great improvements, and you have great attention to detail :)" - TP, Client/User

  • "The improvements recently made on the UI/UX are amazing! Thank you for your hard work!" - AM, Client/User

  • "I don’t say it much Ana, but I appreciate all the hard work you have been doing on the project. In one year, our User Experience has improved immensely!" - CJ, Direct manager/Client

  • "Ana has been turning our product more pleasant and beautiful." - MR, Developer

  • "This is our fantastic UI/UX Designer." - DP, Client while introducing Ana to the Ministry CEO