5X
All-in-one Data Platform
🚀 Competitor Research | Product Design | Usability Testing
5X is an all-in-one data platform that helps businesses manage their data easily. It combines tools for collecting, storing, organizing, and analyzing data in one place. This saves time, reduces costs, and makes working with data more efficient.
Problem Statement
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The Challenge
Managing data pipelines is complex, time-consuming, and expensive. Companies face challenges in integrating multiple tools for data ingestion, storage, transformation, and analysis, which often leads to inefficiencies, higher costs, and slower decision-making.
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Design Objective
To create a user-friendly platform that centralizes data pipeline management while enhancing usability, efficiency, and scalability.
Target Users
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Data Engineers: To simplify data pipeline creation and maintenance.
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CIOs/CTOs: To reduce costs and streamline data operations across the organization.
Freelancers seeking GST-compliant invoicing and tax management.
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Companies dealing with large amounts of data and complex workflows, looking to centralize and optimize their data operations.
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Growing companies that need a scalable, cost-effective solution for managing data pipelines without building in-house tools from scratch.
My Primary Role
My primary role was to develop a comprehensive design system, with a focus on key areas such as data ingestion, orchestration (jobs), the teams page, architecture, and competitor research. I also conducted in-depth learning about ingestion and orchestration tools to better understand user needs. Additionally, I played a critical role in usability testing and user interviews, particularly with data engineers, to gather insights and ensure the design aligned with their workflows and expectations.
User Research
Conducted interviews with key users like data engineers.
Competitor Analysis
Compared existing solutions and highlighted opportunities.
Learned Tools
Snowflake: Data Warehousing
Fivetran: Data Injestion
and more
Design Process
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The Challenge
Managing data pipelines is complex, time-consuming, and expensive. Companies face challenges in integrating multiple tools for data ingestion, storage, transformation, and analysis, which often leads to inefficiencies, higher costs, and slower decision-making.
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Design Objective
To create a user-friendly platform that centralizes data pipeline management while enhancing usability, efficiency, and scalability.
Design System
Key Features
Below you’ll find an overview of some of the features designed.
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Data Ingestion
5X's Data Ingestion helps businesses easily transfer data from over 500 sources, like apps and databases, to data warehouses. It offers secure, real-time syncing and supports custom connections at no extra cost.
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Data Orchestration (Jobs)
5X's Orchestration feature automates the scheduling and management of data workflows, ensuring that data moves smoothly and efficiently through the pipeline. By automating these processes, it reduces manual effort and minimizes errors, leading to more reliable data operations.
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Architecture
The Architecture page shows how your data platform is set up. You can use it to plan, set up, and manage your data pipelines easily.
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Teams
5X Teams helps you manage users and control access with roles and permissions. This guide shows how to add users, assign roles, and set permissions.
Conclusion
Impact
The improved design successfully enhanced the overall user experience by:
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Increasing user engagement.
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Reducing bounce rates.
Key Takeaways
This project reinforced several crucial design principles, including:
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The importance of close collaboration with stakeholders to align business goals with user needs.
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The value of an iterative design process, allowing continuous improvements based on real user feedback.
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The necessity of establishing a flexible design system early, ensuring consistency and scalability as the product evolves.