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Usability - MOE and FELIX

When I started working at SchlumbergerSema, there was a document repository and a tool for locating documents in the repository. The tool was called "MOE" which was an acronym for Matrix Of Everything. This tool was a simple table (shown below) which contained links to all the documents of various types.

While this method of presenting the information worked at first, as the document collection grew, inefficiencies and other issues related to this simple interface became apparent. There were three the main problems:

• The users often were looking for information using different categorization than the interface presented
• Finding documents required drilling down at least two levels
• The repository always showed all the documents for a particular category, even if many of those were not relevant to the user.

These considerations lead the Web tools team to ask me to assist with a new design for the document repository. The new tool, for which I designed the interface, provided more powerful search and sort capabilities. In addition, we leveraged the user's workgroup to create a default view that would show only documents relevent to that user. We also added a self-service tool that allowed users to add, check out, check in, and publish documents.

The tool was named FELIX (Find Everything: Listed, Indexed, and X-referenced) and used the Copyright-free image of Felix the Cat as an icon, in line with the company's goal of keeping things fun.

You can view the prototype for the new interface.

Note: Only some views work, as this is an interface prototype and is not tied to live data.