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JoveoDesign LeadInternal platform

Pubmato Revamp

One platform to create, view, and track the performance of all publishers. Before the revamp, every change required backend configuration and engineering effort, with no visibility into what was set up.

Setup 3 days → 10 minCost −25%UX issues 10 to 15/mo → 3 in 9 mo
The problem

Every change needed an engineer.

Users

Joveo's internal pubops and adops teams.

Team

1 Senior PM, 1 Design Lead (me), 1 Product Designer, 5 developers, 2 QA, 6 users for UAT.

My duties

Requirement gathering, user interviews, user stories, task flows, wireframes, stakeholder alignment and feedback, first-version visual design, UAT.

Why the revamp

Five bets we made.

Primary use cases

Process

Five stages, shared ownership.

Discover

Requirement gathering, heuristic analysis, and user interviews to understand the challenges.

Define

User stories, task prioritization, task flows, and a success matrix.

Ideate

IA, wireframes across multiple versions, and prototypes, with documented design decisions at each stage.

Design

User interface, design documentation, icons, and design reviews.

Test

Design QA, UAT, and test cases set up directly in the tool.

Discover

Finding the real problems.

Reported challenges and bugs

Reviewed historical challenges and bugs reported by users, identifying recurring issues that pointed to deeper problems in the system.

Interviews with current users

Talked with current users to gather firsthand insight into their pain points and struggles, pinpointing specific areas to improve.

Data-driven analysis

Analyzed user behavior data, focusing on the most complex and time-consuming tasks to highlight key problem areas.

Heuristic UI evaluation

Evaluated the UI against usability heuristics to find design inefficiencies contributing to user frustration.

Understanding the ecosystem

Publisher workflow

Studied the full publisher workflow to understand the ecosystem and its impact on related pods.

Persona tasks

Analyzed key tasks and responsibilities of each persona to understand how they interact with the system.

Property mapping

Documented every publisher-related property, removing redundant ones and organizing the rest more efficiently.

A note on visuals: Joveo projects are under NDA, so process artifacts and screens are shared selectively during conversations. Happy to walk through them live.

Key outcomes

From 3 days to 10 minutes.

Setup time cut from 3 days to 10 minutes, removing repetitive engineering effort entirely.
Publisher management costs reduced by 25% within Joveo.
JIRA tickets for publisher setup dropped from 5 or 6 per month to about 0.3 per month, which is nearly zero.
Billing management simplified, covering billing methods, periods, and default types that were previously handled in Google Sheets.
Only 3 UX issues reported in 9 months post-release, compared to 10 to 15 every month before.
Workarounds and hacks eliminated from the publisher management system entirely.
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