App Suite & Navigation System
The entry point to every new tool the company builds, one login, one dashboard, one way to move between them.
Design Team:
1 designer
My Role:
End-to-End UX/UI Lead
STATUS:
In development
TIMELINE:
3 months
Shaping a first impression, and an easy way to move between every new app on the digital transformation.
I led the design of three connected pieces: a login that needed to set the tone for the new environment, a dashboard where the welcome message, app hierarchy, notifications, and recent access all had to come together clearly for someone using it for the first time, and a waffle menu present across every app, so navigation stays consistent no matter which tool an employee is in.
Getting there meant working closely with the architecture team, analysts, and leads from across the company's digitalization projects, making sure this entry point could hold up against everything being built behind it.
The result is a consistent, end-to-end experience employees rely on every day to move across every new tool the company rolls out.
How it came together
Built on research first, designed to scale from day one.
For architecture, time was the priority: a waffle menu was enough to move between apps, technically, and it was the fastest piece to ship.
But it left employees landing directly inside whatever tool they opened, with no place that was actually theirs, no overview of what they had access to, no sense of where they were in the bigger system.
I pushed for the dashboard to exist as a real landing point, not an afterthought, even with the clock running. I built the case with a heuristic analysis of what the company already had and a benchmark of how similar multi-app systems handle this exact moment, the first few seconds after login. That evidence is what justified the extra time, and what moved the conversation from "is this worth the time" to "how do we build it within what we have."
With the landing point secured, the rest came down to a different kind of constraint: most of the apps this system would need to connect to didn't exist yet, or didn't have a defined visual identity. I couldn't design around fixed logos and styles that weren't there.
So the system was built modular from the start, structured enough to feel consistent today, flexible enough to absorb whatever those apps turn out to look like. The information architecture went through validation with the architecture and analysis teams before any high-fidelity screen, partly to keep that flexibility intact as more stakeholders got involved.
The result: employees get an actual entry point, not just a menu, one that holds up as the company keeps adding tools behind it.
Curious how the benchmark data actually shifted that conversation, or how the modular system holds together in practice? Happy to walk through it. Get in touch.
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