Data Products Console
Streamlining data governance and sharing
OVERVIEW
Tempus is a biotech company focused on precision medicine & cancer research, and has a lot of valuable data flowing between different systems, teams and automated processes.
Team
UX Designer, Product, Engineering
My Role
UX Research, UX Design, Visual Design
Duration
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Each data product's structure of the data is defined in it's specification file.
Whats a specification file
Let's understand by this analogy
Problem statement
How might we reduce the time and effort required in creating specification files for data products?
Why solve this?
Resource Intensive/ not scalable
Low adoption
Grow Tempus database/ improve data governance
RESEARCH
Users
Sarah is a bio-informatics scientist (primary user group) and has created an algorithm that outputs valuable data. She wants to make it available for other teams to use.
To make a formal specification file (structure) of her data in the data products library, she needs to:
Pain points / Key Challenges
Delay between specs being created and released
Confusing and unclear processes
Simplifying the process
New Process
Key Challenges
1. Figuring out technical barriers to new process.
Figuring out technical barriers/ control plane.
Guidance on testing
Control plane
2. Simplifying guidance on highly technical concepts for users. / not exposing system complexity to user, platform that aligns with users mental model
Figuring out technical barriers/ control plane.
Guidance on testing
3. Finding a balance between data security, ownership, and seamless user experience.
Figuring out technical barriers/ control plane.
Guidance on testing
DESIGN
IMPACT
On users
On business