Connexus
About
Connexus is a B2B tablet application for real estate agents. It offers a paperless solution to make the process of placing a property on the market more efficient.
When selling a property, one usually has to fill in a lot of forms. Apex' software solution allows for an easy data collection that inserts the content that was placed once (eg. a first name) everywhere it needs to be. It also auto-generates contracts and brochures with the data provided, reducing time for both the seller and the estate agent.
Background
Connexus entails several features, the one described on this screen is regarding the paperless document feature. Before I joined the project, a Freelance UI Designer was hired to create new design guidelines. The designs below are based on those guidelines.
Document Feature
The document feature is used to create legal documents that are required to put a property on the market. The user also has the option to create additional documents that are not required but might be requested by the seller or other interested parties.
The Process
Understanding the Complexity of Legal Documents
To get a property on the market, the seller has to provide following documents:
There are also several states a document can be in:
Restructuring the Information Architecture
The original design turned out to be very confusing for the user. The user had to remember which documents are required to get a property on the market and which ones are additional work. If they were looking for a specific document, they had to look into each tab to see if it was there.
The redesigned version shows all documents on one page in their current state. It also only shows the required documents, alleviating the need for the user to remember more fields. I added a colour system to the documents, red and orange for attention needed and green for completion. Blue was also added for manually uploaded documents.
Work Flow
This workflow demonstrates the different stages a document has to go through to before it can be marked as complete.
Visual Designs
Recommendations
Connexus has been shortlisted for UK PropTech Awards 2019 in the category "Most Collaborative PropTech".
Other Features
On this page, I've only talked through the design process of the documents section. Connexus is much broader than that. Watch the video below to see what other benefits Connexus offers for the property industry.