Microsoft

SharePoint is Microsoft’s enterprise platform for collaboration and content management, used by organizations to create intranets, manage documents, and streamline internal communication. I joined a UI-focused team adjacent to the SharePoint product group and separate from its UX function. Working under a Principal Design Manager, I was brought in as a contractor to contribute to a visual exploration effort within a layered and highly interconnected environment. Navigating communication and alignment across these groups required care, awareness, and adaptability.

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The SharePoint visual design team didn't set out to redesign the product entirely, but they did have a window of organizational focus in which to establish momentum toward an eventual redesign. Our goal was to inspire, not to ship. But that ambiguity came with constraints: leadership needed to see clear continuity with the existing product, and any conceptual work that appeared to require extensive reengineering could risk derailing the effort. My challenge was to push visual ideas far enough to feel fresh without crossing the line into rethinking core interactions.

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As a senior visual designer embedded with the SharePoint UI team, I delivered hundreds of mockups, diagrams, and motion studies—but more importantly, I helped the team navigate the ambiguity of design without a roadmap. Drawing on my technical sensibility, I pushed styling to the edge of feasibility: far enough to feel new, but never so far that an engineer couldn’t realistically build it.

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