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```

```cv
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```

```cv
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```

```cv
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```

Trips by Culture Trip

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```

The Creator App went through a lot of changes and improvements from MVP launch to where it ended up (above). From this view, you can see a list of tasks in progress (maximum of 3 at a time) and the unclaimed list below where Creators can claim new work. From the top, they can also switch tabs to see all of their completed work. The navigation provided ways for Creators to change the currency (this was never developed) to check on new notification updates (again, never developed) to getting help via the FAQ or How-To Guide that I made using Google Docs and on the very right, to view Settings (not developed) and Sign out.

I also explored how searching could work although the feature didn't get developed however it was ready to be from a front-end design perspective.

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```

From the left-most screen, you can see the main dashboard view, with a list of tasks in progress. Notice the top task that is close to the due date gets a visual warning, the date is listed as absolute and the due time is relative to help comprehension. Also listed in claimed tasks are the fee the Creator will receive when completing the task.

The middle screen shows the Task Options menu when the user taps Options link. They have the option of opening the Brief for the task in a new tab, this will send them to the Google Sites hosted briefs that are written per task type. Creator's can also Unclaim a task which will move the task from their 'In Progress' list back to the 'Unclaimed' list for others to claim.

The right-most screen is a modal view when the Creator has requested to extend deadline. We had the idea to build this feature when working on the Deadlines feature since we knew life can be unpredictable, it's not always clear why a Creator may not be able to make a deadline. We wanted to empower Creators to be able to extend deadlines for up to three times within a month, on any task if they should so wish.

The Creator App

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```

Yantra (literally "machine, contraption") is a geometrical diagram, mainly from the [Tantric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra "Tantra") traditions of the [Indian religions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions "Indian religions"). The name was chosen by our Product Manager as it encompassed the machine like nature of our ad banner manager on the website and apps. With this in mind, I started exploring different Yantra designs as there are many. I based the one I used off of the Shiva Yantra and changed the colours to a more muted and refined black and gold, to signify quality. The icons were designed in a MacOS desktop style fashion with a slanted angle and an iOS app style icon with a round rectangle style mask.

Yantra

Learning how to be more impactful and deliver value

Senior Product Designer

Culture Trip launched a small group, multi-day stop, trips product in early September. The result of a 6-month long, collaborative cross team discipline effort. 

I focused on the Trip details page of our website specifically, working on the itinerary section of the Trip details page and a framework for generating static map assets for all 33 launch trips. I collaborated with our Travel team to build out a mini design system in Figma that let us easily export static map assets for our chosen itineraries.

I also collaborated with our external development agency, Codegen, on the Trip email templates that get sent to customers when they've booked or cancelled a trip.

Trips by

The Creator App is a marketplace for Culture Trip freelancers (read Creators) to find, track and deliver work. 

Our ambition was to create a competitive marketplace for our freelance creators as well as reduce content production costs for the company by automating and streamlining content processes.

My involvement included taking a series of ideas from a workshop that was run with internal stakeholders to development ready designs and specs. I refined the wireframe ideas and split test the best options in an unmoderated user test. From those results, I developed a visual style for the product and designed core flows for users to accomplish tasks like first time logging in, claiming and un-claiming tasks, viewing task briefs etc. I also took notes in a series of moderated interviews with 4 creators when the product was ready to soft launch and synthesised the results into insights that could help us improve the product past MVP launch.

I later designed a deadlines feature to encourage and motivate Creators to complete work on schedule. I also designed how un-claiming and reclaiming a task would work, both from a UI perspective and technical systems perspective together with engineers on the team. I also explored how adding monetary incentives in the UI would motivate Creators further.

Later, it was decided to reskin the Creator App so that it appeared more like the branded consumer website, so I restyled the visual design so that it aligned with our updated Design System.

Yantra grew as an internal project that allowed stakeholders to programmatically manage ad slots on our pages at Culture Trip. This desire grew more as our ad strategy became more complex and sophistacted, and we lacked the tools to manage our ads at scale.

I designed a banner framework that the front-end of Yantra would manage and I also designed a fun little icon to express Yantra within the company.

As a result of this work, various teams within the company were able to add dynamic ads programatically in different slots that were added to templates throughout the website. This sped up the entire workflow of building marketing campaigns.

Mike Stezycki

2022

2021