One stope shop for product language × design community
Company
Micro Focus (Ex-HP)
Role
Head of Product Design
Team
8 designers
Platform
B2B SaaS enterprise software and information technology
Problem
EverythingUX was originally a static website built to unify design across dozens of products. By the time I stepped in as dead of design, it had become outdated and disconnected from how the teams actually worked. It served many design teams and 140 frontend developers, but the content was hard to find, rarely updated, and had no live connection to the design system. For a platform meant to be the shared foundation of a global design organization, that gap mattered.
+20 Design teams
140 Developers (FEDs)
+20 Products
Design Goal
Transform EverythingUX from a static resource into a living modern platform, one that kept pace with the design system, brought designers across the globe into one visible community, and made the right information easy to find and trust.
Process
I started by listening and observing together with my team, splitting the work into parallel tracks to move faster and stay grounded in what was actually happening.
We ran internal surveys, user testing sessions, and site usage analysis with the designers and developers who used the portal daily. What came back was consistent: navigation was confusing, content felt outdated, the design system wasn't reflected anywhere on the site, and there was no sense of who was behind any of it.
After some ideation and concept reviewing we selected a design direction — a scalable, vector-based visual language that felt friendly, playful, and true to the brand. The team worked in parallel: a full content audit to reduce clutter and surface what was actually valuable, a restructured site map, and a community area built around the idea that scattered international design teams working across time zones deserved a place to connect.
Solution
The decision that changed everything was integrating directly with Figma via API. Any update made in Figma was instantly reflected on the platform. No manual syncing, no version drift, no outdated specs. The platform became a genuine single source of truth, not just in name.
Information architecture with Figma API integration scope highlighted.
One stop to show design languge and foster design culture
Design community spotlight
With designers scattered across geographies and time zones, there was no natural place for them to find each other, share work, or feel part of something larger. We built a dynamic directory where designers could connect based on shared skills and interests, a project gallery to showcase what teams were building, and a people page that put faces to the work. It humanized the system and made the global team feel like exactly that, a team.
The new everythingux.com, a quick demo
Before
Old platform main screens layout design
After
Revamped portal highlighting our design language and community, with focus on people and culture
Launch event
The platform launched during a monthly all-hands to roughly 150 global participants. The response was immediate. Senior leadership acknowledged the shift publicly, and teams moved quickly to adopt the new features. The chat that followed the live demo said it plainly: "mind blown", "outstanding work", "where do we join the community?"
After launch, teams began submitting their own profiles and contributing to future iterations. The open contribution model turned users into stakeholders and proactive design foundations evangelists.
Reflection & Legacy
This project was design leadership expressed as a product. It required systems thinking, editorial judgment, community design, and the kind of cross-functional trust that takes time to build. Treating the design system as something alive rather than a document to be maintained, the Figma API integration was ahead of where most organizations were at the time.
The platform ran for almost four years, until Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText. It remained the go-to reference for design and development teams across the organization long after the work was done.
