Perkin+Will is a large, international architecture firm headquartered in Chicago. They have a small, internal software team that develops internal and customer-facing software used in their offices around the world. I worked on their team summer of 2016.

Large architectural projects (think hospitals, universities) often last many years, and involve thousands of deliverables. These deliverables—from mundane contracts and invoices to eye-candy diagrams, renderings and videos—are mostly volleyed back and to clients via email or third-party software. There's no cohesive "project narrative" which makes it clients to follow the project's trajectory.

Blueprint was an experiment project that attempted to reimagine the client/architect experience with centralized secure file storage, and a file-based "project story" that told the story of a project through its artifacts.   repository and project story that was build and demoed at Box Con in 2016.

I was tasked with researching, and developing high-fidelity screens for the internal-facing Blueprint application. As interns, my coworker and I had 5 weeks to research the huge number of users involved, and prototype viable solutions. 

• 7x proto-personas

• 6x user interviews

• 4x paper prototypes

• High-fidelity annotated InVision mockups

Our final deliverable: annotated high fidelity mockups, was just that—a prototype; unfortunately, as interns, we lacked the leverage to set up user testing with real users—and were therefore forced to make reasonable assumptions from secondary knowledge gathered in interviews. However, our designs were well-received by internal stakeholders, and they can be seen as a viable starting point for the actual software.