The challenge
Microsoft's mission to empower information workers stalled inside large organisations, where people drowned in meetings, email, and information overload. Leadership wanted a tool that could help users track and optimise their time, then connect them to the right content and colleagues through intelligent discovery.
What we did
We delivered the interactive prototypes, concepts, and final visual language for Office 365 Analytics, a tool that turns activity-based insights into a clear picture of where each workday goes. It surfaces the SharePoint content that matters and the colleagues you actually collaborate with, based on shared responsibilities and competencies.
How we worked
Embedded with Microsoft's product and engineering teams, we led the design of interactive prototypes, iterated on concepts, and built the final visual language. Every surface had to work seamlessly across the Office 365 ecosystem, Desktop client, browser, iOS, and Android, and slot into existing workflows so adoption felt effortless.
What we learned
- Time is the ultimate resource, tools that help people understand and reclaim it are invaluable.
- Proactive, intelligent discovery changes the game for productivity and collaboration.
- Trust is a design problem: we made analytics opt-in, respecting people who didn't want an algorithm representing them, even at the cost of slower adoption.