Stacktile
Make your software stack come alive
Feel the Stack
Stacktile helps development teams to understand DevOps tools and techniques easily and put them quickly into practice. Furthermore, their web app allows software companies to provide interactive documentation to their prospective customers to increase conversions.
The company also offers full-stack development services in addition to an open-source website/app monitoring system.
* Stacktile was acquired by another company based in Berlin.
My Role
As the company's Lead and only Designer, I was responsible for:
- Branding
- Marketing
- UX & UI Design
- Front-End development
Project Deliverable
Team
- Dr. Dan Levin (CEO)
- Michael Martinides (Project Manager)
- Fabian Schaffert (Software Engineer)
- Amr Osman (Software Engineer)
- Marco Canini Ph.D. (Technical Advisor)
Tools
- Sketch app
- Invision app
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Html
- Css
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- Git
- Piwik Analytics
- Hotjar
Making something
out of almost nothing
When I started, they already had a beautiful logo, but only a logo?! I had to define typography and color palette.
What is the developers' color? Black & Green? Ugh! A bold logotype needs a crisp typeface with character and a bunch of fresh colors and patterns with references to their world.
Online style guide#32b5cd
Background gradient
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Background gradient
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Background gradient
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Links
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Links:hover
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Text
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Success messages
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Warnings and infos
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Error messages
And a special touch to the UI
Much before MacOS Mojave, depending on the user's local time, the background of the application changes color.
Web App UX & UI
I created a questionnaire and applied it to a group of users. Furthermore, I reviewed the Piwik analytics, implemented and analyzed Hotjar data to refine the user stories, user journeys, and wireframing boards.
During the time I worked there, I did countless iterations like this to fine-tune the UX and UI of the application.
See the APP HTML prototype
Not always what we expect happens
For the launch of the web app, we created two landing pages with different designs to test which of them would convert better. I was positive that the version 2 (screenshot attached) would be the winner, though, numbers showed that version 1 related better with the target audience.
More services, more landing pages
As mentioned before, Stacktile also provides full-stack development services; they also open-sourced the company's website monitoring technology. I designed two landing pages for each of those areas, and A / B tested them using the Convert app.
