ProtoPie had been shipping big features loved by users. But the hard prioritization also made us rich for the backlog. Can you imagine a 4-year-old productivity tool without cut and paste? I thought it was time for us to improve the usability of users' daily basic tasks.
To achieve this goal, I hosted an internal one-day event called ‘Fixit Day’ in early 2021. I successfully convinced designers and cross-functional partners to participate in the usability improvement project.
I made an animated digital poster.
We discovered more than 70 issues and prioritized them all together. We shipped 34 of them in about 3 weeks. That was a big win for us and I felt that everybody who participated in this project was fully motivated than before.
Let me introduce some of the features I enjoyed working, timeline and drawing.
ProtoPie Studio is a prototyping editor where users can make interactions by controlling start time and duration for each interaction property of an object such as Move, Scale, and Rotate. The timeline control had room for improvement requested by our users and internal members requested for a long time. We discovered two problems and solved them by introducing a new way of controlling timelines in 30 years.
