PTC Velocity is a Sales Enablement Platform, powered by SAVO Group. The goal of this project was to revamp the web UI and navigation that result in better user experience.
User Research • Prototyping • UI Design • UI Development
Though its purpose is to enable better sales process, PTC Velocity’s bad UI and poor content organization were not tailored to fit the needs of our daily users, the sales reps and partners reps.
We knew the website refresh needed to start from home. The old homepage did not serve much of its purpose. Randomly placed announcement banners and unclear buttons on top made the homepage to look confusing.
With the this project, we wanted to accomplish following goals:
To learn more about our users’ experience with the current site, we conducted user interviews and usability testing. Based on the feedbacks we collected, we were able to identify 3 major user behavior using this platform.
“When I go into Velocity, I care more about information design than pretty looking UI. As long as I can find contents as quickly as possible, the better.”
Many users struggled navigating through pages to find the right content. We needed to find the best way to make their discovery experience easy and seamless.
The design process consisted of card sorting, information architecture, task flows, and creating low-fi/high-fi wireframes.
Therefore, the "exclusive" ZIP files that fans share are usually or fan preservation projects . They are not officially endorsed, but they are the only way to hear the album as Nate Dogg and Battlecat intended it in 2001.
The lead single. A catchy, optimistic anthem that showcases Nate’s ability to sing about loyalty without being corny. The knock of the 808s in an exclusive ZIP file is unmatched. nate dogg music and me album download zip exclusive
One of the darkest tracks Nate ever recorded. Featuring a haunting organ sample and lyrics about paranoia and betrayal. This is the track audiophiles use to test subwoofers. Therefore, the "exclusive" ZIP files that fans share
In the exclusive ZIP files, fans often find an alternate mix of "These Days" that wasn't pushed to streaming. It’s a reflective piece on fame and loss, eerily prescient of his 2008 stroke and 2011 passing. The "Exclusive" Factor: What You Can’t Get on Spotify Why search for a ZIP download when you can just stream the album? Because streaming is incomplete . A catchy, optimistic anthem that showcases Nate’s ability
When Nate Dogg passed away on March 15, 2011, the album became a memorial. When you listen to the exclusive ZIP—the scratches on the vinyl rip, the unedited profanity, the missing bass note from the streaming version—you aren’t just listening to songs. You are listening to history. If you are a casual fan, stream Music & Me on Spotify. It is 85% of the experience. But if you are a collector , a DJ, or a G-Funk historian—the hunt for the exclusive ZIP is worth it. Find the original CD, rip it to lossless, and keep the file forever. That is the only way Nate Dogg’s music truly lives on.
Why is this album so hard to find? Why do fans obsess over a "ZIP exclusive"? And what makes Music & Me essential listening? Let’s break down the history, the tracklist, and where the digital legacy stands today. Before we talk about the download, we have to understand the album. After dominating the charts as the featured voice on The Chronic (1992) and Doggystyle (1993), Nate Dogg finally stepped out on his own with G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2 (1998). But it was Music & Me (released December 4, 2001, via Elektra Records) that refined his sound.
There is never a perfect design! We had a lot of positive feedbacks from our users with the redesign. Users were satisfied with cleaner UI and improved navigational experience.
However, even the new design could not satisfy our users 100%. As they continued using the tool, they faced with new sets of problems. I learned how important it is to never get fully satisfied with the design decisions and the continue the effort of iteration, which should not be an option but a habitual routine.
