Accelerators

Accomplish tasks quicker by reducing steps, time on task & consumption overload on Edge.

Design question

How can we help our customers quickly find what they are looking for & help them complete tasks?

Accelerators

Accelerators are in various surface areas throughout the browser. They can help users accomplish tasks quicker by reducing steps, time on task & consumption overload:

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: the act or process of moving faster or happening more quickly

: the act or process of accelerating

Design Sprint

During a week, I did a design sprint with two other designers in the team to explore productivity accelerators on Edge. Through individual brainstorming, discussions and group ideation, we developed bunch of ideas:

Some of the prototypes I made:

Shopping

Translate

Accelerator to PowerPoint

Currency exchange

Pain points & Oppotunities

With the help of the user research team, prototypes from the design sprint got tested and evaluated. We scoped the project to address the following major pain points:

Context menu

The context menu offers a set of actions & shortcuts that are available in the current state or context

IA.

Iterated Prototype