Bulletin Editor Templates

Product Design at Granicus

Communication managers in medium to large cities are responsible for teams that sent out email communication based on lists that citizens signed up for. Those managers found it difficult to control the quality of email designs across their team and wanted to start with a template.

I worked with the product manager to fully understand requirements and the product owner and dev team to design an email templates experience. I conducted discovery interviews at the start of the process to see how advanced bulletin editor was being used by communication managers and what workarounds they had found to solve their problems.

More on the process

The drag and drop functionality caused a bit of an issue in user testing (as did the feature limitation of figma in 2019). Users were not able to test, but rather provided feedback after figma product demos. It was not an ideal process.

The feature was widely adopted after 4 months of launch with our target audience (city communication teams with more than one team member) and streamlined communication processes during the critical COVID period when team members were working from hom.