ServiceNow Account Management
Consolidating UIs and improving usability
Bringing teams together for a better user-experience
Although it started as a simple 'community profile' page, the ServiceNow account portal has the opportunity to integrate dozens of disparate tables of account-related and personal information into a single UI.
At the time the account portal was developed, the ServiceNow had not yet developed a Single Sign-On experience to unify the various web properties.
Now we that we have the foundational utilities in place, we have the opportunity to create a single place to manage all aspects of your relationship with ServiceNow.
There are many issues with the current account page, including:
- ServiceNow logo, navigation, header, footer, and other company information are missing
- The page utilizes screen-space poorly in landscape aspect-ratios
- Some information is public and cannot be removed, updated, or changed to 'private'
- There's no indication of where 'public' information is displayed or used
- "Display Publicly" is easy to overlook, making it unclear what the toggles do
- The toggles differentiate only with color, and the 'on' state is an identical color-value to the 'off' state
- There are no links to manage or delete your account or to relevant privacy policies or terms of service
Quick Wins
To get this project moving quickly, I started with minimal changes to the functionality and focused on getting the page to feel like "ServiceNow". I also included the 'job description' fields from the registration form, improved toggles for privacy, and created a 2-column layout to separate the job-description info from the user's personal information.
Next Steps
To plan out the larger initiatives like including the data-management and subscription-management features, I moved to a lower fidelity so stakeholders could focus on the functionality before we stared discussions about aesthetics.
I created low-fi designs for the five tabs we want to create on the Account Portal: Profile, Events, Activity, Communications, and Security.
I've collected requirements from the respective teams to ensure that I know what data we'll be managing and where we need to integrate.
Final Mockups
Project Goals
- Incorporate the ServiceNow navigation, footer, and other common components
- Replace the 'public' toggles with labeled controls
- Redesign the page to support landscape layouts
- Add controls for other personal data that's not currently accessible
- Add links to account management features like: manage data, delete account, change password, contact preferences, and event preferences
- Link to the public view of the profile and the portals where it's used
- Improve the usability through information chunking and Gestalt principles
- Create a scalable design that will support role-based access, entitlements, and future integrations like gamification for learning and community engagement
Bonus Content
In this time-lapse video you can watch me quickly work through an early draft of the 'Security' tab in Balsamiq.