While at Raytheon (2012-2014), Simulation kits were under construction and a site needed to be built in order to offer them to the engineers. After interviewing the Sim developers, I diagramed the structure of the content, which naturally led to a site navigation structure, as the user selects the different denominations of available kits.
User Flows
After the site structure was logically worked out, I then mapped out a user going through the site. I tiered out the different user needs as would prompt them to come to the site.
The top tier of user need is to download a kit or interact with a kit (Tier 1.5). A second priority for a user would be support for the downloaded kit. An assumed equal priority or frequency would be the users ability to share a kit they have created or component for a kit.
Visual Design
The first interaction and priority action of the page is the “Select a Kit” pulldown. The user is already into the available kits for download. Create and Share and Wiki are Available as secondary Main Nav priorities. Down the left is a component library with search and sort features. The center page is the main content and the right column is for social and personalization. Finally, a admin user experience was needed for the administrators and kit developers to make available, describe and tag the components and kits on the site.
