© 2024 Saawan Ebe. All Rights Reserved.

After release, the collaborator invites increased which validated that there’s an improvement among users in understanding how sharing works in Cacoo.

Reflecting the changes made in Editor on the Dashboard.

If a single diagram is shared from the Editor, we show the information on the thumbnail of the diagram in the Dashboard so that the user understands that the diagram-level sharing is enabled. In future iteration, we’d like to enable editing this from dashboard itself.

User flow of “Share via link” where the user can make the diagram public and generate image link and embed code.

Part II includes the share dialog inside the Cacoo Editor.

applied only to diagrams in “Owned by Me” and Folder sharing takes over if the diagram is moved into a folder that’s shared with others.

Users can send invites to others to view or edit a diagram from the Cacoo Editor. They can also generate links to share the diagram here. The invitation experience is similar to the one on folder sharing. This

We introduced a contextual menu for options.

Since we replaced the options dialog with Collaborators, we introduced a contextual menu for the user to make changes to the folders.

Consolidating separate Private and Shared folders as just Folders with shared functionality helped reduce confusion.

The previous design separated folders as Private and Shared. In the redesign, we eliminated private folders and made all folders shared. The user can set his diagrams private and access them from ‘Owned by me’ on the side bar.

User flow for adding new collaborators in the Collaborators tab.

We pulled the list of collaborators and placed it on top right corner of the folder along with the “Add” button as shown in the screenshot below.

As you see from the above “Before” dialog box, the Collaborators option is placed under Options of the folder. The users found it really hard to get to this place. Once they’re here, the Add button isn’t prominent enough for them to notice to add new collaborators.

We received feedback consistently from users that “Sharing in Cacoo is confusing”

where the user won’t miss with who the folder is being shared.
I worked in a team of four that included two Product managers, a Front-end developer, and a Product designer.

In Cacoo, there are two types of sharing - sharing by invitation and sharing with a link. The old design hid the “sharing by invitation” under options which was hard to find. As the lead product designer, I helped pull it out of the options and placed it front and center

cacoo

Timeline

2020

Responsibilities

User experience, User interface design and Prototyping

Cacoo is a cloud-based online diagramming tool. It has two components - Dashboard and Editor. The users found it confusing to share the diagrams they created in Cacoo with other people.

I worked as a product designer on a team of four people to help solve the UX of sharing.

© 2024 Saawan Ebe. All Rights Reserved.

After release, the collaborator invites increased which validated that there’s an improvement among users in understanding how sharing works in Cacoo.

Reflecting the changes made in Editor on the Dashboard.

If a single diagram is shared from the Editor, we show the information on the thumbnail of the diagram in the Dashboard so that the user understands that the diagram-level sharing is enabled. In future iteration, we’d like to enable editing this from dashboard itself.

User flow of “Share via link” where the user can make the diagram public and generate image link and embed code.

Part II includes the share dialog inside the Cacoo Editor.

applied only to diagrams in “Owned by Me” and Folder sharing takes over if the diagram is moved into a folder that’s shared with others.

Users can send invites to others to view or edit a diagram from the Cacoo Editor. They can also generate links to share the diagram here. The invitation experience is similar to the one on folder sharing. This applied only to diagrams in “Owned by Me” and Folder sharing takes over if the diagram is moved into a folder that’s shared with others.

We introduced a contextual menu for options.

Since we replaced the options dialog with Collaborators, we introduced a contextual menu for the user to make changes to the folders.

Consolidating separate Private and Shared folders as just Folders with shared functionality helped reduce confusion.

The previous design separated folders as Private and Shared. In the redesign, we eliminated private folders and made all folders shared. The user can set his diagrams private and access them from ‘Owned by me’ on the side bar.

User flow for adding new collaborators in the Collaborators tab.

We pulled the list of collaborators and placed it on top right corner of the folder along with the “Add” button as shown in the screenshot below.

As you see from the above “Before” dialog box, the Collaborators option is placed under Options of the folder. The users found it really hard to get to this place. Once they’re here, the Add button isn’t prominent enough for them to notice to add new collaborators. We pulled the list of collaborators and placed it on top right corner of the folder along with the “Add” button as shown in the screenshot below.

We received feedback consistently from users that “Sharing in Cacoo is confusing”

where the user won’t miss with who the folder is being shared.
I worked in a team of four that included two Product managers, a Front-end developer, and a Product designer.

In Cacoo, there are two types of sharing - sharing by invitation and sharing with a link. The old design hid the “sharing by invitation” under options which was hard to find. As the lead product designer, I helped pull it out of the options and placed it front and center where the user won’t miss with who the folder is being shared.
I worked in a team of four that included two Product managers, a Front-end developer, and a Product designer.

cacoo

Timeline

2020

Responsibilities

User experience, User interface design and Prototyping

Cacoo is a cloud-based online diagramming tool. It has two components - Dashboard and Editor. The users found it confusing to share the diagrams they created in Cacoo with other people.

I worked as a product designer on a team of four people to help solve the UX of sharing.

© 2024 Saawan Ebe. All Rights Reserved.

After release, the collaborator invites increased which validated that there’s an improvement among users in understanding how sharing works in Cacoo.

Reflecting the changes made in Editor on the Dashboard.

If a single diagram is shared from the Editor, we show the information on the thumbnail of the diagram in the Dashboard so that the user understands that the diagram-level sharing is enabled. In future iteration, we’d like to enable editing this from dashboard itself.

User flow of “Share via link” where the user can make the diagram public and generate image link and embed code.

Part II includes the share dialog inside the Cacoo Editor.

applied only to diagrams in “Owned by Me” and Folder sharing takes over if the diagram is moved into a folder that’s shared with others.

Users can send invites to others to view or edit a diagram from the Cacoo Editor. They can also generate links to share the diagram here. The invitation experience is similar to the one on folder sharing. This

We introduced a contextual menu for options.

Since we replaced the options dialog with Collaborators, we introduced a contextual menu for the user to make changes to the folders.

Consolidating separate Private and Shared folders as just Folders with shared functionality helped reduce confusion.

The previous design separated folders as Private and Shared. In the redesign, we eliminated private folders and made all folders shared. The user can set his diagrams private and access them from ‘Owned by me’ on the side bar.

User flow for adding new collaborators in the Collaborators tab.

add new collaborators. We pulled the list of collaborators and placed it on top right corner of the folder along with the “Add” button as shown in the screenshot below.

As you see from the above “Before” dialog box, the Collaborators option is placed under Options of the folder. The users found it really hard to get to this place. Once they’re here, the Add button isn’t prominent enough for them to notice to

We received feedback consistently from users that “Sharing in Cacoo is confusing”

where the user won’t miss with who the folder is being shared.
I worked in a team of four that included two Product managers, a Front-end developer, and a Product designer.

In Cacoo, there are two types of sharing - sharing by invitation and sharing with a link. The old design hid the “sharing by invitation” under options which was hard to find. As the lead product designer, I helped pull it out of the options and placed it front and center

cacoo

Timeline

2020

Responsibilities

User experience, User interface design and Prototyping

Cacoo is a cloud-based online diagramming tool. It has two components - Dashboard and Editor. The users found it confusing to share the diagrams they created in Cacoo with other people.

I worked as a product designer on a team of four people to help solve the UX of sharing.