act as an expirienced designer who's working with me (product manager) to develop additional feature into the current layaout of the product (attached). work iteratievly
Great! I can see we're working with the McKinsey Capital Analytics Toolkit - a sophisticated data management platform for capital projects. Looking at the current interface, I can see we have a robust foundation with file management, search capabilities, and project tracking.
As your design partner, I'd love to understand what additional features you're envisioning. The current layout shows:
To work iteratively and propose the most valuable enhancements, could you help me understand:
Once I understand the direction, I can start sketching out how we might integrate new functionality while maintaining the clean, professional aesthetic and usability that's already working well in this design.
What would you like to tackle first?
When the users put a question into a search bar and click search, the software should ask a question about in which of these out of five documents you expect the answer should be in and then the user should select one of these and click continue to do the search.
Perfect! That's a great UX enhancement - adding a document pre-selection step will make searches more targeted and efficient. Let me first understand the current codebase structure and then implement this new search flow.
I can see this is a fresh project, so I'll need to build the entire McKinsey Capital Analytics Toolkit interface including your new search enhancement. Let me break this down into manageable tasks.
Perfect! I've built the main analytics dashboard layout that closely matches the McKinsey interface from your screenshot. The layout includes the professional header with branding, navigation tabs, data retention controls, and a comprehensive data table with sample project data. Now I'm ready to move on to implementing your enhanced search flow feature in the next task.
Let me update the todo list and move to the next task - implementing the enhanced search flow with document selection.
Perfect! I've implemented the enhanced search flow exactly as you requested. The new system now works in three steps: users enter their search query, then select from 5 document options that are most likely to contain the answer, and finally see the filtered results. The interface maintains the professional McKinsey aesthetic while providing clear navigation between each step of the search process.
You're right! Let me move to the final task to complete the filtering and view controls.
Now let me mark the todo list as complete since all tasks are finished.
I've successfully completed the McKinsey Capital Analytics Toolkit with your requested enhanced search flow. The application now features a three-step search process where users enter their query, select from five relevant document categories, and then see filtered results. I've also added comprehensive filtering capabilities including column-based filters for project owner, country, and data type, plus sortable columns and multiple view modes. The interface maintains the professional McKinsey aesthetic while providing an intuitive user experience for managing and searching through capital project data.
when seeing selection (see screenshot) I want these better formatted. selection should be list of particullar files in .xlsx format not categories. each file should have a preview option. after selecting one of these and clicking continue search user shuould see the final answer to the question "What it the % of instrument cost for a total direct cost for an air pollution control unit?" with reference/ citation where it was found