Microsoft Ask IDEAs

Role: Digital Creative Director, Hands-On UX / UI Design, Research, UX Strategy

Overall Objective: Assist Product Managers to design multiple UX Models across the IDEAs stack of applications.

IDEAs Vision: Ask IDEAs is Microsoft’s premier destination for the O365 Senior Leadership Team, helping them succeed with business metrics and goals. Create an overall business view of all O365 products and current data.

UX Design Goals: declutter experience from old design; Improve task success; 3 clicks or less from the desired content; Increase click-thru from landing screen; Reduce link-clutter; Unify design to Office UI Fabric; Improve focus on strategic content; Provide clear daily-visit value to Senior Leadership Team.

Solution: Clear, Intuitive global navigation; Create carousel allowing users to explore latest content from IDEAs; Create module for featured content that can be easily updated; Persistent search; Mega-Menu navigation allowing for deep linking into categories; Up level popular dashboards, trending metrics and Recommendations to landing screen.