Tembo
Led the end to end redesign of tembo’s developer tooling solution and enabled developers to build applications faster, scale easily and deliver quality applications in little time.
Tembo.io
MY ROLE
Research, conceptualisation, design, user testing and dev-handoff of designs
TEAM
Founders, Product Designer (Me), Design Manager, 2 Engineers.
TIMELINE
3 Months
INTRODUCTION
In december 2023 , tembo decided to do a design overhaul of their existing application based on feedback gotten from their customers. I led the end to end redesign of tembo’s developer focused application.
WHO IS TEMBO?
Tembo is the Postgres developer platform for building every data service. We collapse database sprawl and empower users with a high-performance, fully-extensible managed Postgres service that's tailored for specific needs.
ANALYZING USER FEEDBACK
I analysed the feedback archive received from users over the months and was able to identify common themes which helped frame my solution explorations as i went along
DRAWING OUT COMMON THEMES
I synthesised the user feedback and grouped the common patterns into themes.
ALIGNING WITH STAKEHOLDERS
I had workshop sessions with stakeholders to understand their vision for the redesign and their brand as a whole.
PRIORTIZING THE SOLUTION
I did an impact versus effort table and grouped all potential solutions into the four sections considering timelines, engineering constraints and the most viable solution.
PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS
I have highlighted a few of the core flows of the previous version of the product before redesign.
Previous Sign Up Page
Previous Welcome Page
Previous Organization Page
Previous select a stack Page
USER FLOWS
After analysing all feedback , understanding the problem space better and aligning with stakeholders, I began to work on my solution. Starting with the flow.
BRANDING
Tembo had an existing set of brand materials that just wasn’t properly utilized. And so i ensured to bring more of the brands image and persona forward.
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HIGH FIDELITY DESIGNS
Below are some of the high fidelity designs of my design solutions. Please send an email to see more!
USER TESTING
In order to validate my solution, i conducted several rounds of remote user testing sessions to validate my solution and also do further iterations based on feedback from the sessions.
92%
User Satisfaction
15
Participants
12
Sessions
RETROSPECTIVE
This was a highly successful project! And i am super grateful to have led this redesign and deliver an optimal solution. My key learning include the following
Synthesize the problem early
User feedback can sometimes be ambiguous , some users also don’t know what they want. It was important to synthesize and draw out the most common themes from the user feedback to reduce ambiguity and provide a sense of direction as i moved along in my design process.
Developers are your friends!
I worked really closely with the developers of the tembo team. It was very important to me to ascertain the feasibility of my design solutions. They provided a lot of guidance and support which was very key to the success of my design solution.