The New Global Innovation Web Portal

MY ROLE

Web Design / Art Direction / UI / Interaction 

BACKGROUND

The HPE’s Innovation group is a global collaborative dedicated to gather and develop its employees best ideas, later to become new revenue-producing solutions.

The Innovation’s portal is an internal website that showcases the multistage innovation cycle; it provides detailed information about the program as well as documentation of specific ideas (documents, videos, presentations). 

THE CHALLENGE

The portal is a massive archive of ideas. It relies heavily on users’ engagement and participation; their comments and votes are essential. However, the users – HPE employees – are a diverse crowd with different knowledge base regarding the program, and the uninviting and chaotic portal makes it difficult to engage.

There was also a technical constraint: the portal had to be built in Wordpress in order to have a content management system (CMS). That meant I had to design 4-5 templates to be used across the portal (with aprrox. 35+ screens).

THE SOLUTION

We had 4 months to define our needs, talk to users to understand the pain points in the current portal, build a new information hierarchy, create modular components that will be flexible enough to be used in our fixed templates, and to design an innovative L&F that aligns with HPE's existing brand language.  

The new portal gained tremendous success, both from users and from management. With its clear, modern and user friendly interface, users were able to fully understand the capacity of the Innovation group, and to take active part in the program. 

** Project was done with UX Designer, Anya Borokovich **