Microsoft Loop.

How might we create easier ways for people to share their content across apps?

Problem

Loop is a new consumer productivity app with reusable, transportable content components. The Loop product team needed a design lead to refine and develop its brand strategy, ensure design quality across multiple feature crews, and integrate local design tokens into the global Microsoft Fluent design system.

Actions

I meet this need by:

• leading brand efforts and new UX pattern definition across Loop;

• providing design cosultation and guidance to designers, PMs, and developers on individual feature crews;

• planning and staging design work using Agile methodolgies and tools;

• working with feature crews to identify existing design tokens or create new ones when necessary;

• working with PM and partner design teams (Fluent, Office product teams, and M365 Expressions) to ensure Microsoft brand and UX consistency across all product endpoints.

• developing longer-term brand strategy and roadmaps.

Results

The result of this work is satisfying and noteworthy.

Supporting Design Documents
Brand Book
Illustration Strategy
Design Specs with tokens

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