Problem/Goal:

OpenText iHub is the commercial platform for all BIRT content. It is a deployment server that helps developers manage report content. It provides robust visualization tools and gives system administrators control over users and user groups. The viewing capability of iHub is superb, allowing for interactivity, sorting, filtering, and exporting.

Research:

Use a Whiteboard in Brainwriting for Creative Ideas

OpenText Whiteboard Brainwriting

Deliverables:

Athena Design System

I developed a centralized, efficient, and reusable component-based living Design System for a unified experience across different applications using Yeoman, LESS, HTML5, Bootstrap, RequireJS, JavaScript, AngularJS, MVC, jQuery, and JSON.

Athena is a standard framework offering developers access to a revised design framework employed in multiple products.

Athena was the home for our in-house design framework. Built and maintained by the UX team, it included visual assets (such as icons and buttons), layouts, and prototypes. Developers could access these libraries to pull down Bootstrap-based elements and code to build or revise product screens as necessary.

Providing usable elements rather than just static specifications helped streamline the development process and also allowed the UX team to quickly publish updates to engineers across the company's far-flung locations.

The site was so successful that it also became the home for the company's brand guidelines and assets.

Athena eventually split into two sites (blue and green), one offering the standard framework and the other offering developers access to a revised design framework employed in certain products.

OpenText Athena Design System

Used Athena to Rebrand Actuate to OpenText

I led the rebranding project for transforming Actuate's data analytics product to align with OpenText's visual and interaction Athena Design System.

OpenText Rebranding from Actuate

OpenText Ftype and iHub

I worked as part of the UX team to provide a collaborative environment between visual designers and engineers through UI refresh, and improved specific functionalities to ensure that users could find what they needed.

Throughout this process, I worked closely with the UX team, product managers, product marketing, and engineering teams. I was heavily involved in daily agile standup meetings during the implementation phase and participated in usability testing.

OpenText Ftype

iHub Analytics and Data Visualization Platform