Outlook Groups v1
Beginning in late 2012, I co-led a cross-organization initiative aimed at reducing and simplifying Microsoft group offerings—which at the time consisted of over a dozen unique and unlinked solutions across various Microsoft products.
The cross-disciplinary v-team I co-led and participated in heavily relied on user research to better understand the opportunity space of Groups at large while we iterated through numerous early low-fidelity user journeys, concepts, and prototypes, which I personally created.
When Groups was granted funding, I transitioned to the role of Product Design Manager responsible for directing a team of cross-functional Product Designers tasked with envisioning and creating Groups experiences that would eventually land in various Office 365 products, primarily Outlook Web App, but inclusive of SharePoint, OneDrive, and Yammer.
Outlook Groups has grown to support tens of millions of monthly actively users today and provided the service from which Microsoft Teams was built upon.
Here are some mild-to-wild examples of the Groups experiences I explored and some we eventually shipped.