Rescale Lab is a platform for startup building and provides program managers the essential tools to design, manage and scale venture creation programs. The platform lets users manage everything related to startup (including team analytics, AI-recommended resources, network expansion, and program management, etc. ) in one place but was lacking an effortless user experience.

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As a product designer, it was my role to work alongside the team to significantly improve the user experience of the product within six weeks.

There are four different roles (including Startup, Investor, Mentor, and Venture Lab) in this system and each user might have more than one role regarding various programs they attend. The platform provides many tools, but the exhaustive onboarding experience makes users confusing and has no idea where and how to start. The community manager told us that they usually have to teach them in person how to use it for the first time.

We were asked to redesign the whole onboarding experience and the flow of guiding each role to use each feature. In the original design, the landing page after signup is the community page where all users can share ideas. Users have difficulties reaching their own page or feature they want after signup and have to go to the profile page to create roles, but the role switching is on the navigation bar. The whole process is confusing and the actions are not coherent.

Research

INTERACTION MAP

We went through the process of creating roles and analyze them step by step through an interaction map, trying to figure out the difficulties that users face during the process.

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There is no similar platform like Rescale Lab. We collect some different functions and websites as references, including account-changing, workplace platforms and dashboards.

Problems

Solutions

Flow : 

Login&Invited Code -  Create the roles - Switch the roles - Account - Notification - Community 

Desgin

FINAL DESIGN

Since the platform contains lots of functionalities and contents, we try to make the style remain clean and simple to reduce destruction. 

Simple Onboarding Experience

We make the required form less and use steppers to have simple instructions before users enter the landing page.

Intuitive UI & Consistant Actions

We make all the functions and widgets stay in sidebar.

The functionalities change while users change the role.

Fixed Navigation

Role-switching dropdown and community button are always on the navigation which can be easily accessed

Create A Role

Before

Users have to go to the profile page, click toggle and add the new entity

After

Users can click the "create new" button on the side bar

Switch The Role

Before

After adding a new entity, users use the button on the navigation to switch the role.

After

Users use the dropdown to switch the role

Role Page

Before

There are no widgets when users first enter the role page and users have no idea how to start.

After

The functionalities on the sidebar will change as the role change. A set of the fundamental widgets is the default and users can add new ones.

Community

Before

The original landing page is the community page and users have difficulties adding roles.

After

We use the profile page as landing page where users can easily edit their information first. The "Community" page can still be easily accessed.

Team