HP – UX Design & Strategy – Hybrid Working

HP – UX Design & Strategy – Hybrid Working (fully remote project) ________ UX DESIGN LEAD ________ While the shift to hybrid has given people freedom to work from virtually anywhere, the way people work together, both in and out of the office, is evolving. 80%* of executives are changing office spaces to focus more on collaboration. Hybrid work is about more than working remotely. With most companies investing in ways to upgrade conference rooms, the office is shifting from a place where people go to work to a place where people gather to work together. IT teams are also challenged with keeping people connected with productive and secure technology, making conferencing and collaboration solutions a top priority for 67%* of IT departments.     Design Thinking In September 2021, I joined the project team working with HP to create an improved user experience on the complex hybrid work universe we are living post-COVID pandemic using Design Thinking techniques. During this 12 weeks discovery project, we worked to de-risk assumptions, prioritising, testing and learning about the key assumptions from the future customers – so we can inform the design and build of software, hardware, spaces and employee wellness and productivity metrics solutions. 90+ hours of customer insight conversations Multiple moderated and unmoderated research pieces 12x clickable prototypes and mockups Multiple online workshop facilitation sessions with stakeholders Informed offer design (learnings + implications on experimentation and offer design)   Working with agility When designing workplaces that enable anytime, anywhere work and collaboration, we wanted to test assumptions under in-flight propositions (e.g. desk booking solutions), starting with a good amount of insights...

The Economist – UX Design & Strategy – Design Templates & Ways of Working

The Economist – UX Design & Strategy – Design Templates & Ways of Working (fully remote project) ________ UX DESIGN LEAD ________ The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. They deliver information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties the group together is the objectivity of their opinion, the originality of their insight and their advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world. In February 2020, I joined the project team working with The Economist with the responsibility of leading the delivery of the a set of design templates and visual libraries as well as a revised strategy for their team ways of working. The challenge was to create a visual library that would suit a multitude of partners of their online publications whilst keeping visual consistency with their on branding guidelines. Their internal digital team was also in need of updating their tooling, systems and the way they interact with each other.   The Problem The Economist Intelligence Unit Content Solutions team finds themselves spending too much time designing simple websites and wants to focus their time on the more interesting, complex, bespoke and profitable designs.   The Solution Our proposal was to create a design component library to enable them quick and easy collaboration as a design team, using up to date tooling and ways of working. Our goal was to help, teach and empower them to create, expand and maintain this component library.     The Process We took them on a one month journey of new ways of working,...