Office & Nokia

An interface only a mother could love in these times... Nokia made a final sprint for market share with Symbian Belle and OS^3. A partnership with Office would give it just enough gas to get home to mommy before the lights went out.

Sharpie Prototype Videos

This was a fun and expressive approach to the collaboration process across the various global external teams. We documented and communicated most of our design concepts in either this format or in logical animated clickthroughs.

Wireframes and Visual Comps

Over the course of three engineering waves, I drove the experience goals, design concepts, framework iterations, and personality passes for the 7 individual Office Symbian products. I handled much of the the UX communications and delivery process with Nokia design leadership and executives spread around the globe along with the internal MS stakeholders for each of the product teams.

Pattern Library

I was directly responsible for creating and defining many new additions to the platforms pattern control set; in-app notifications, tab views, hierarchical navigation and content formatting just to name a few.

Guidelines

I made a large impact co-authoring many guideline entries for the Symbian Pattern Library. The "Simple Hierarchy" wasn't so simple to begin with. The platform resisted application independent navigation as it was initially considered to be in conflict with the systems historical back. Little did I know, I would revisit this exact problem years later for Win Phone and leveraging this experience would serve to be a great asset.

OneNote

The first of the OneNote mobile products to ship. This was a baseline experience in all respects, providing the essential mobile note taking functionality and continuity with the desktop client experience.

Access to all your notebooks via on demand sync with SkyDrive.

OneNote's personality is carried through with the application of Notebook and Section color to the chrome. Recent and QuickNote are pervasive actions through out the experience.

The note canvas with text formatting, highlighting, todo's and image capture. Custom touch optimized check boxes (something other mobile offerings wouldn't see for several releases) and formatting command bar were new additions to the platform controlling.

Word

Fully editable documents with image editing, document searc and rich text formatting via custom on screen keyboard commands.

Find stuff faster on your mobile device with the document explorer.

Highlighting and commenting integrated into the proximal command bar.

Easily view and navigate through comments. A custom carousel control was created for comment navigation.

Excel

Full control to create and edit spreadsheets.

Graphs and charts are rendered and optimized for viewing on the mobile device.

Sort and filter through spreadsheet columns for easier viewing.

Lync

Manage your contacts, group IM, connect to conference calls and update your enterprise profile.

Group messaging. Start a conference call or share documents with multiple contacts.

View and manage your enterprise profile.

Check status and view messages from the home screen.