Legacy system content import tool [closed]

Question

We have an old system, which is a course platform, and we are developing a new version of it, with other technology and some new features.

I am designing the feature that will allow users to migrate content from the old to the new version of the system.

We have already defined that this import can be optional, that is, if he wants to continue using the old platform yet, he can. But I'm in doubt about the friendliest way to offer this to users.

I imagine that working on a concept and wizards is interesting, where each step corresponds to a block of information to be imported, for example:

1. Import the courses
2. Import modules and classes
3. Import students
4. Notices and conclusion

At each step, he could select what he wants to import and what he wants to delete, and thus perform the task.

The question is: is this a friendly way of working? is there a model that can be more efficient to reduce friction in this task?

Answer 1

welcome to Stack Exchange. I'm also fairly new around here.

Your question is a bit broad one. It heavily depends on three factors - Technology Details - Userbase - Company's time and investment on this process.

In a most Google-y way, whole process can be done with a single button click and it could be done on the background for your users but I get that there's no such technology involved with the project.

Letting your users handle the migration is a one way to approach but there goes the technical factors. Are users previous users or are you trying to get leads from competitors? Are the data been stored on JSON files or are they some special format specific to the regional educational technology standards.

So as you can see there's lots of stuff that you need to clarify so we can also give you specific answers.

Oh, forgot to answer your question. As a user (and I believe most of the users are the same) I love one click import tools where I don't do anything at all. Doing work for the tools are boring and not user-friendly at all -unless they're paying to that task. For example, I recently imported my 1Password registries to Bitwarden. There was a very simple guide on Bitwarden explaining how to export my registries from 1Password. After exporting I just selected the exported file from Bitwarden and my whole process was done within 4 clicks. That's how an import function work. Export file, select import, select file, click start import. Hope this would answer your question.

Love to hear more about the project if you'd like to talk more in detail.