Adapting cross-platform UI to over 30 languages in 2 months

Company

Microsoft

Date:

2024

Role

Product Designer

Overview

In order to help Microsoft Designer grow into an accessible and user-friendly for a global audience, I collaborated with 1 other designer, 3 engineers and 1 PM to redesign our web and mobile UI and create a scalable localization framework, ensuring consistency and quality across various languages.

As the lead Product Designer for this project, I was responsible for making improvements to our dialog, menu, and messaging components, homepage, integrations across Bing and Teams, and end to end mobile designs to non-english languages and right-to-left UI needs without compromising the design integrity.

Impact

Through iterative improvements and testing with the engineering team, we increased localization support to over 35 languages and significantly decreased UI bug reports.