Introducing
Communities
A Microsoft feature on Teams.
Seamless, light weight, and personal.
Microsoft Communities - Onboarding | iOS
Engaging, effortless, and personalized.
Microsoft Communities - Post-Onboarding Steps | iOS
During my time at Microsoft, I was fortunate enough to work on Communities - an exciting, new product that had not been released for Microsoft Teams mobile yet (update: GA released Dec. 2022).
Overview:
As a UX/Product Design Intern on the iOS Growth and Onboarding Team, I pioneered the way in which Teams thought about their users’ onboarding and discovery experience. Due to the nature of my internship, my designs were used for conceptual work. Most of my work has been iterated upon since my time at Microsoft.
However, working on a complete onboarding flow, as well as ideating user engagement flows, gave me a chance to experience an end-to-end design cycle that I have never been able to go through before.
Context:
Communities is a new feature within Microsoft Teams with the intention to “create and organize groups with users’ recreational sports club, event planning committee, parent-teacher association or any other group in their community.” (as seen on TechCrunch)
During my internship, Communities was still in development, which meant that there was opportunity to ideate and think outside the box for future iterations of the feature.
Thank You
With an unique experience for the books, I can’t help but to thank every single person that made this internship possible:
A major thanks to my design manager Tim Cleary, as well as my design mentor Meng Yao, who were both on the Growth and Onboarding Team and helped me to find my voice within design.
Special thanks to creative director Matt Blank for allowing me to design for the first time at a place like Microsoft.
Furthermore, this internship would not have been possible without the support of my engineering manager Ron Patton, engineering skip Nate Rudd, and engineering mentor JungTae Kim (JT).
Finally, I would love to give a huge thanks to my friends and colleagues with whom I have learned and explored the Pacific NorthWest.