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Situation
Situation
The Sputnik Goods Ltd. is a product design company and a new idea from the owners was to design and produce the first-ever robotized Rubik's Cube (RRC).
Goal
Goal
There were 'smart' cubes on the market, which means the cube connects to a mobile app via Bluetooth and so the app helps in solving the cube, also offers online matches with other users and other games. Our X-factor would be the self-moving and programming possibilities of the RRC.
Team & Role
Team & Role
Our team consisted of the product owner, a project manager, an electric engineer, a mechanic engineer, a firmware developer, a 3D and graphic designer and myself as a software designer and development manager.
My tasks & Methods
My tasks & Methods
For the software design I set up a collaborate space in Miro to have most of our documentation there.
For the screen design we chose Figma.
Personas & Use cases
Personas & Use cases
We defined our key user groups and personas, then use cases for the personas.
Function map
Function map
The use cases were broken down into function groups and a function map.
User story map
User story map
Then we specified the details of the functions and put together a user story map.
Style & UI elements
Style & UI elements
In parallel we started to work on the UI style and elements, we chose a retro design as an homage to the original Rubik's cube, following the Material Design rules.
Choosing developer partner & MVP
Choosing developer partner & MVP
On the user story map we prioritised the stories into releases and wrote the detailed user stories of the first release for issuing a tender and invited developer companies to take their informative proposals.
After choosing our developer partner we negotiated the details and set up the development milestones for the MVP together.
Wireframes & Final screen design
Wireframes & Final screen design
Along the schedule we started with my designer colleague to create wireframes and then the final screen designs in Figma for the upcoming sprints.
We worked in two week sprints, we tested the developed functions and designed the new ones in parallel.
Challenges
Challenges
Considering that the cube-prototype was unfortunately overdue, we couldn't be sure about the possibilities of the robotic and programming functions and we should reschedule them more times.
What I've learned
What I've learned
It was exciting to work together with the engineers on the functions of the physical cube (i.e. power modes) and on the Bluetooth interface, find the common language and balance between the business goals and technical possibilities.
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