Radius: Global Payroll
Background
Background: Radius has a team of global professionals and a range of enterprise-level applications to assist client companies with everything from expense reporting to tax advice when expanding overseas. The existing Global Payroll application needed to be redesigned from the ground up. Of particular interest was an opportunity to free up wasted visual real estate for the payroll spreadsheet, a more intuitive navigational system, moving the application into AngularJS, and an array of enhancements to be added over time. The resulting UI would be used a guideline for future application development.
Approach
My tasks included:
- Evaluation of existing payroll site.
- Research customer, affiliate, and managerial feedback for existing site.
- Requirements gathering, use case identification, gap analysis, and requirements documentation.
- Research best of breed HTML frameworks to carry into all future application development.
- Rapid prototyping of paper and Balsamiq wireframes.
- Clickable walk-through presentations to gather feedback and to build consensus around best approach.
- Hi-res mock ups of each major section of the application.
- Medium resolution wireframe walkthroughs for all major uses cases, supplemental documents covering edge cases.
- All front-end development, which was being moved into an AngularJS framework.
- Bug testing, documentation, and fixing all UI-specific issues.
Outcome
The new streamlined, responsive interface was well received by both clients and the steering committee. The choice of Bootstrap as a framework has lowered the number of UI-related bugs for the spreadsheet, and decreased the time need for bug fixes, particularly in regards to cross-browser issues. The spreadsheet, which is already in a class by itself for offering service in over 50 countries, is now slated for an additional of enhancements.