Smart Brief

Shutterstock Custom | September 2019

Description: Understating and capturing clients needs are crucial at Shutterstock Custom, where fortune 500 brands come to create custom content. In order to communicate a brand’s vision for a campaign, clients are required to fill out a brief. The old experience were mainly open text fields and limited guidance for each input, creating the need for our internal team to transcribe brief submissions into content creator friendly versions. The new briefing process is a conversational piece of software that has an intuitive experience, allowing users to input accurate and necessary information in order to provide direction for a content creators to execute. This new process has completely cut out the need for transcription and reduced the average time a user spent writing a brief, from 90min to 30min, and the new easy-to-use interface onboards new clients easily into brief creation.

Process: Lead on design strategy, story mapping, research (customer interviews, surveys, competitive analysis), empathy maps, UX journey mapping (ux, decisions trees), wire-frames, user testing, hi-fi mockups, hand off/QA with engineering.

Tools: inVision, Sketch, Illustrator.

The goal. What are you looking for, and the final output.

The content. What are you looking to get and how will it be used.
The environment. Where will it take place, setting the scene.
The talent. Who will be in this shoot and the rules.
The products. Providing specifics on what to shoot, and how to obtain it.
Shot list. Providing direction and context, setting up the scenes.
Sample images. A space to provide inspiration and examples of your vision.
The review screen. A space to edit the brief for last minute changes, search and revert to previous versions, clone, or submit the brief.