My Role

• User Experience owner
• Designed the installer/uninstaller for various NVIDIA products including Graphics Driver, 3D Vision, CUDA, nView, PhysX etc.
• Consolidation of the fragmented installers that existed before this project
• Collaborate and coordinate with the engineering, marketing and user research teams to add new features and support requirements for new software installation
• Mockups, prototyping and user testing
• Incorporate user-testing finding in the design and produce specification for implementation and QA testing

Prototype

• Created various prototypes for testing the design with each iteration and new feature
• Used HTML-5 Canvas and Javacript for itneraction and Photoshop for visuals
• Click the setup icon to start the protoype in the frame below

Design

The new design provided:

• Visibility of the Installation process
• Express installation (mainstream user)
• Custom installation (advanced users)
• Which components to install
• Where to install
• Advanced controls
• Error handling
• Customization for specific software installation

Observation:

• Graphics drivers installation takes considerable time
• Driver installation is the first impression of NVIDIA for many users

Goals:

• Improving the experience by keeping users enganged
• Keeping the installation time same, no delay beacuse of this feature
• Providing relevant and up to date information while drivers are being installed

Design:

• Designed the HTML canvas delivered through web-server
• Worked with web and marketing team to design the framework
• Graphics related content
• Content based on location and system hardware
• Simple & elegant design, up to four billboards only