Xerox's DocuTech line of production printers created the digital production publishing industry in the early 1990's and became a billion dollar business for Xerox Corporation. The original DocuTech's touch screen, mouse and  keyboard user-interface was attached to the printer to perform the industry's most robust array of  job setup tasks. When Xerox moved toward standard software platforms, and a distributed scanning and make-ready concept,  I became part of a design team that created a DocuTech replacement on the Windows NT platform.

We created a user interface that leveraged many of DocuTech's workflows, but one that also took advantage of being on a fast PC running Windows NT. Cutting down the number of layers, and making a more streamlined workflow was proven in usability tests to increase operator productivity on job setup tasks by as much as 40%.  As a visual interface designer working with cognitive designers and software engineers, I helped to support an optimized delivery process that produced a product in a little over a year. I worked directly in the development tool, Visual Basic, creating screens and storyboards for usability testing. I was also responsible for designing over 150 icons and graphics, and layouts for over 60 UI dialogs. Once testing was complete, design tweaks were completed right in the software developers' version control system, and incorporated directly into the product. This process cut down the user interface review and maintenance cycle immensely.

After completing the actual software design, I designed the user interface for a website that was used to solicit customer feedback about the upcoming release of the product.

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