Business apps

With a product as KMD XForm, that has been developed over the course of several years, during different eras of technological advancements, the maintainability and updatability proved increasingly difficult. Also, the product is quite technical, so we needed to create tools that were easy to use for regular office workers without an engineering background. In short, we needed to find out how a new generation of the KMD XForm software platform might work and look.

How could we enable non-technical people to change user-facing form texts such as labels and headings without having to edit source code? The KMD XForm Responsive Editor is a powerful yet quite technical tool where the user-facing texts are buried deep in HTML code. So, we needed a way to extract this content and present it in a less daunting UI suited for easy text editing and translation between languages.

KMD XForm is a product with a long history and it’s age was starting to show. To stay relevant to clients we needed to update the look and feel of the app and in the process optimize the interactions of individual screens and support better workflows. Also, due to a company acquisition we needed to rebrand the product from Capevo XForm to KMD XForm.

How could we offer clients responsive form solution tools with a short time-to-market? The previous version of the KMD XForm editor wasn't built for the age of responsive web design, where form layout automatically adapts to various screen sizes from smartphones to big desktop displays. To meet market and client demands, that is – in essence to ensure company relevance going forward – it was imperative to quickly develop a tool for creating responsive forms.

From 2011 to 2012, I worked as User Interface Designer at Tangora Software — vendor of content management system (CMS) solutions. During that time, I was involved in designing a new dashboard and an iOS app. Also, I introduced more visual and 'human-friendly' settings alongside a more consistent interaction design and graphical look.