Guided Buy

A Product by
GEP Worldwide

Overview

GEP Worldwide offers customers innovative, beneficial, and cost-effective sustainable supply chain and procurement solutions.

Guided Buy finds suitable goods and services by navigating through relevant buying channels and searching vast volumes of content across GEP SMART and the clients' legacy systems.
-> Concise and well-structured questionnaires capture inputs, comprehend requirements and guide clients to their destination.
-> Provides quick links to all significant purchasing portals.
-> Category cards derive thorough, firsthand insights into key categories.
-> The process can be customized to specific needs, irrespective of the platform.

Clients

CitiBank | Bank Of America | American Heart Association | TESCO | Rosche | Chevron

My Role

I attended product management calls along with the seniors to gather requirements and collaborate with experienced designers in the company to gain insights.

I worked closely with the UX lead to develop low-fidelity wireframes and conducted multiple presentations to review them. Subsequently, I created high-fidelity wireframes and showcased them to the stakeholders.

Design Approach

The design approach here is user-centered design. It focuses on understanding the needs of the users and creating a product that meets those needs. This approach involves gathering requirements from stakeholders, developing low-fidelity wireframes, presenting plausible ideas, creating high-fidelity wireframes, and showcasing the wireframes to stakeholders.

By taking this approach, we are not only able to solve the current problem but can also anticipate future problems and create solutions for them.

Paper Prototypes

High Fidelity Prototypes

Value Proposition

GEP Worldwide's Guided Buy offers customers concise and well-structured questionnaires that capture inputs, comprehend requirements, guide clients to their destination, and provide quick links to all significant purchasing portals.

This product adds value to the company as it is tailored to the needs of the user. It allows us to take into consideration the user's context and create a product that is user-friendly, efficient, and easy to use. This approach also allows the company's clients to anticipate potential issues and develop solutions for them. This ensures that the product is not only usable but also meets the user's needs.

Reflections

Working on the Guided Buy project at GEP Worldwide was an incredible experience. I gained insights into the product management process, understood user needs, and developed effective wireframes. Working with experienced designers and product managers helped me understand the importance of user-centered design. By focusing on the needs of the users, I created a product that was both beneficial and cost-effective.

This project taught me the importance of gathering requirements from stakeholders, developing low-fidelity wireframes, presenting plausible ideas, creating high-fidelity wireframes, and showcasing the wireframes to stakeholders. It also taught me how to anticipate future problems and develop solutions for them. Overall, this project was a great learning curve for me.