Credit: corporate.walmart.com

To use the Walmart Academy Application, hourly associates must be clocked in to access the application. As this was a high legal priority, we needed to convey this within the application quickly and within tight legal restrictions.

As sole Product Developer, I led cross-functional teams (developers, UX designers, UX researchers, data scientists) and coordinated with stakeholders, legal teams and leadership. Strategized and developed new product features, while integrating with multiple systems, components and applications.

How do we know if they are on the clock?
Discuss options with developers.

• Are there any systems we can connect with?
• We pass the employee ID when they log into the app, can we use that?

Solution: 

• Connect the app to the Clock In System API.
• Verify the employee ID is on the clock by analyzing their clock in status.
• Pass the status back to the app, trigger messaging.

When do we need to restrict access? 

• In discussing with legal, we must restrict all access when they open the app.
• No content should be accessible while off the clock.

Solution:

• After prototyping several UX options (notifications, pop-ups and screen overlays), we settled on a full screen redirect. We didn’t want to suggest to the user they could circumvent the message (as they might with a popup or modal).

Quick and dirty solution:

• As an immediate stopgap, a full screen redirect with generic icon and messaging was used.