OFFICE 365 EXECUTIVE VISION

Executive vision for consolidating Office 365 cloud services into a single IT admin experience.

RoleUX Designer II
Timeline2010
ScopeOffice 365 / Executive Vision / IT Admin

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Brief

Create an executive vision that could unify 30+ cloud-based services inside one deployment and admin experience.

Role: UX Designer II
Constraint: Service discovery, upsell, try, and buy scenarios needed to work together across a growing set of partner offerings.
Outcome: Delivered an extensible Office 365 admin vision and a working prototype.

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UX Designer II

client

Microsoft

team

3 Program Managers
2 Usability Researchers
3 Executives
1 Content Writer

tools used

Planning Research Requirements Gathering Feature Design Lead Design Strategy User Experience Information Architecture Wireframing…

platform

Cross-platform product experience

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Context 19items

Background and constraints

Research 5items

Inputs, audits, discovery

Exploration 8items

Options and solution paths

Direction 13items

Chosen path and rationale

Wireframes 28items

Structure and flow logic

Design 3items

Finalized UI and specs

Context · Background and constraints

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Research · Inputs, audits, discovery

User Research Database

4 frames

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Exploration · Options and solution paths

Artifact Set

3 frames

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Direction · Chosen path and rationale

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Tools

Tools used on project

The working set used to research, prototype, align, and ship this case.

PowerPoint
Silverlight
Office
Visio

Reconstruction lab

Q10 shell outside. Office task surface intact inside.

This hosted rebuild keeps the Microsoft workflow surfaces pristine while reframing the experience with Q10 portfolio chrome, scenario navigation, and a cleaner recruiter-facing entry point.

Contained ambient framing instead of repeated legacy graphics
Scenario-to-scenario navigation that preserves context
Interactive validation logic preserved for demo credibility

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Story

Hypothesis

A shared admin vision and extensible service model would let Office 365 scale without fragmenting the experience.

Insights

The vision had to stay extensible enough to support up to 30 add-on cloud services.

Story

Decision points

Direction Chosen path and rationale

Translate cross-service requirements into a unified admin vision covering discovery, upsell, try, and buy scenarios.
Validation Testing and refinement

Daily syncs with product owners, PMs, researchers, and executives kept the vision coherent as requirements evolved.
Engineering Handoff, specs, implementation

Executive wireframes in PowerPoint led into a working SketchFlow / Silverlight prototype.

Story

What changed

Unified discovery, upsell, try, and buy scenarios in one admin vision
Designed to support up to 30 add-on cloud services
Executive wireframes built directly with stakeholders in PowerPoint
Gold Star Award for contribution to the vision work

Highlights

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See it in Action

A quick walkthrough of the decision path, interface behavior, and delivery proof behind OFFICE 365 EXECUTIVE VISION.

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Artifacts

Recruiter-ready briefs, findings, specs, and readouts that show how decisions translated into shipped outcomes.

Evidence Index All sets, phases, and artifact references for this case
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OFFICE 365 EXECUTIVE VISION

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