Brian Porter

Director of Experiences

An advisor to senior management, trusted leader for strategically important R&D efforts and high profile client engagements with the top tier of retail, health care, warehousing, and logistics.

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My work

SmartLens – Picking

My Role

I led the experience talking to business management about their pain points, interviewing floor associates on their needs, designing the experience based on the evolving abilities of the tech, presented the vision to Target’s leadership, and working with the dev. team to test and polish the POC, which we LIVE demo’ed to Target’s CIO.

Low FIdelity

Storyboards

To place the experience in the environment I first start with a storyboard to construct the journey & solidify multi-persona flows.

High Fidelity

Screen layouts and components designed in Sketch and flows are added to a virtual whiteboard for sharing with team members and stakeholders.

Clickable

To provide a more immersive experience a prototype is made in Axure. In this case actions are triggered by location and proximity so a clickable flow is made.

Vision

The initial demonstration of the proposed solution is told of the picking journey showing the app screen with voiceover storyline. This video also serves as an asset for internal champions to spread excitement.

Test and Iterate

With new dev happing on the technology and the expectations of a LIVE in store demo I had to do a LOT of iteration based on using the application myself.

Demo

After months of testing, weeks of tweaking, and days of rehearsing the scripted demo we were ready for the LIVE in store, real data demo.

SmartLens – Protect

My Role

One of the scenarios uncovered in the Target Zebra partnership was the protection of assets. I was involved in everything from talking to security about their pain points, to testing and polish of the live prototype, which we live demo’ed to Target’s CIO.

Low Fidelity

Storyboards

To place the experience in the environment I first start with a storyboard to construct the journey and solidify multi-persona flows.

High Fidelity

Screen layouts and components designed in Sketch and a screen sheet is created to share with the development team.

Vision

The initial demonstration of the proposed solution is presented to stakeholders. The video acts as an asset for internal champions to spread excitement.

Test and Iterate

With new dev happing on the technologies and the expectation of a LIVE in store demonstration I had to do a LOT of iteration based on first hand use of the application myself.

Demo

After months of testing, weeks of tweaking, and days of rehearsing the scripted demo we were ready for the LIVE in store, real world demo to the CIO.

API’s Product Owner

My Role

I acted as the Product Owner for Zebra’s API platform we built. As part of that I put together a live demo of the Blockchain, FDA Recall & Barcode Intelligence API’s for the Zebra CTO to present to the public. The app is simple, but what it’s doing is incredible.

Imagine that with every barcode scan you can record who did the scan, what the item is, when and where the scan occurred, and automatically checking for recalls from the FDA on that item and recording all of that to the blockchain. That’s what we’re doing here, in an instant, with a single barcode scan. Incredibly important when you think about food safety (romaine lettuce anyone), or drugs and implantable medical devices that’ve been recalled.

Mindmap and Canvas

In this project a lot of the work I did was to plan out and organize the offerings, prioritizing them based on impact. Here are a few of the more interesting materials (without giving anything away) that I put together to keep myself organized and to convey the roadmap to others. I’ll spare you the boring spreadsheets.

Lean Canvas

The Value Proposition

Productizing the API's

API's Mindmap

Blockchain Data Flow

Low Fidelity

Demo

This demo was a quick turn around with two senior architects and myself. It carried a little more flash when the CTO presented it on stage, but here’s me in the lab doing a quick demo.

Other Demos

Here are a bunch of videos for other projects that I’ve worked on with the vast majority of them being in the last 2-3 years. For each of these I led the product/service design of the project. Some it was just me on the job, and some I had a team of both ux and developers to lead.

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Whiteboards and Walls

A lot of the work I do is in front of a whiteboard and on walls to map out new or legacy application flows and to keep an inventory of assets. The following are shots from my office and the UX brainstorming pit. It’s not pretty but it gives you a good look behind the curtain.