Engaging developers with the
Office Platform
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In 2017, I spearheaded the (re)design of the Microsoft Office Developers Sites. To optimize our resources, our engineering team (Design, Dev, PM) focused on the following principles:
Compliance: Abide by the company standards, branding and adopted Microsoft Web Framework. Consistency: Leverage the Microsoft Design Language and engage our audience with a consistent point of view and approach (AIDA + 30-3-30) Efficiency: Set design goals, telemetry and measure performance of the funnel. Make rapid changes. User Centricity: Attract, interest and retain target users including BDM and TDMs alongside Developers. Focus on their scenarios and propose solutions focusing on One Microsoft. |
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Our team delivered Design Guidelines and Documentation for Add-ins creation and deployment. Worked with marquee customers like Bloomberg, KPMG, Oracle and many others.
Published Scenarios and Resources to enable 3rd Party partners to Learn, Develop and Deploy Solutions on the Office Platform. Worldwide. Driving a group of experienced and growing designers alike (from Junior level to Principal), I lead an organization where people are in charge of their areas of responsibility. encourage them to explore and take risks, engage with customers and their engineering teams as well as partners whether external or within Microsoft. |
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Graph Explorer started from a page with a single text field.
Along with one dev and one PM, I lead the development of this tool which is now the most used page of Microsoft developer sites with over 3.5M views a month.
I organized a prioritized list of scenarios that we delivered over 2 years starting in 2017. The goal was to introduce developers to the Microsoft Graph API while giving them easy access to simple calls and examples, and providing them with code samples to embed directly in their work.
In the last 2 years, I volunteered time with the current owner, an Microsoft engineering team in Kenya to continue the effort and develop new scenarios like using Adaptive Cards to display call results or generating ready-to-integrate code in multiple languages.
Along with one dev and one PM, I lead the development of this tool which is now the most used page of Microsoft developer sites with over 3.5M views a month.
I organized a prioritized list of scenarios that we delivered over 2 years starting in 2017. The goal was to introduce developers to the Microsoft Graph API while giving them easy access to simple calls and examples, and providing them with code samples to embed directly in their work.
In the last 2 years, I volunteered time with the current owner, an Microsoft engineering team in Kenya to continue the effort and develop new scenarios like using Adaptive Cards to display call results or generating ready-to-integrate code in multiple languages.
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Our team biggest project at moment is to provide a scripting solution to automate workflows for online work, starting with Excel Online. Office Scripts allow our identified user segment we call "Makers" to record, edit and execute scripts in TypeScript language. We just released the feature to our broadest audience and are ramping up the funnel of users through telemetry, user testing and research and enhancements to our scenarios including discovery, learning and successfully executing and monitoring scripts. (Featurette courtesy of XC Design Team on a scenario I provided) |
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