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I am a senior UX/UI and product designer with 7+ years of experience, currently at Maropost Australia. Based in Brisbane. Open to remote. I design everyday workflows like checkout and tickets, then I stay involved…", "media_count": 1, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1078", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/pages/about", "content_text": "About\n\nI design the systems people live in all day.\n\nI am a senior UX/UI and product designer with 7+ years of experience, currently at Maropost Australia. Based in Brisbane. Open to remote.\n\nI design everyday workflows like checkout and tickets, then I stay involved while engineers build them so the live product still matches the design. I set direction, explain trade-offs to product and engineering, and mentor without leaving the craft.\n\nI use Claude, Cursor, and Figma AI to explore faster. I do not let them decide. The judgement still has to survive a stakeholder meeting and a Vue pull request.\n\nOpen to Senior UX/UI Product Designer roles, and to Lead where the work is still hands-on.\n\nsamriti005@gmail.com\n· Brisbane, QLD\n\nResume\nLinkedIn", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Rectangle-Copy-31.jpg", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/jpeg", "title": "Rectangle-Copy-31", "width": 664, "height": 664 } ] }, { "id": 1034, "kind": "page", "wordpress_type": "page", "title": "Contact", "slug": "contact", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/contact/", "modified": "2026-08-20T03:06:15", "excerpt_text": "Contact Email is the fastest way in. Based in Brisbane. Open to remote. I am looking for Senior UX/UI Product Designer roles, and Lead where the work stays hands-on. Write to samriti005@gmail.com. I read every note. 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I read every note.\n\nEmail me\nLinkedIn\nResume", "media": [] }, { "id": 1450, "kind": "page", "wordpress_type": "page", "title": "Resume", "slug": "resume", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/resume/", "modified": "2026-08-25T17:49:55", "excerpt_text": "Resume Download PDF SAMRITI VERMA Senior UX/UI & Product Designer | Design Leadership, AI & Design Systems Brisbane, QLD | +61 455 671 910 | samriti005@gmail.com | Portfolio | LinkedIn Professional summary Senior UX/UI and Product Designer with 7+ years of experience owning end-to-end design…", "media_count": 1, "media_types": [ "document" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1450", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/pages/resume", "content_text": "Resume\n\nDownload PDF\n\nSAMRITI VERMA\n\nSenior UX/UI & Product Designer | Design Leadership, AI & Design Systems\n\nBrisbane, QLD | +61 455 671 910 |\nsamriti005@gmail.com |\nPortfolio |\nLinkedIn\n\nProfessional summary\n\nSenior UX/UI and Product Designer with 7+ years of experience owning end-to-end design across complex SaaS, e-commerce, responsive web and mobile products spanning technology, MarTech, education, renewable energy and community services. Trusted to shape design direction, simplify complex workflows, present rationale and trade-offs to stakeholders, and partner closely with Product and Engineering through implementation. Combines hands-on product design with design-system thinking, mentoring and AI-assisted workflows using Claude, Cursor and Figma AI to explore options, build functional prototypes and surface edge cases earlier, while keeping decisions grounded in user evidence, accessibility and sound design judgement.\n\nDesign leadership & AI-assisted product practice\n\nSenior product ownership: Owns complex product work end to end, from discovery and journey mapping through interaction design, stakeholder decisions and implementation review. Comfortable setting direction, explaining trade-offs and guiding work across Product and Engineering.\n\nAI-assisted design workflow: Uses Claude, Cursor and Figma AI daily for research synthesis, journey and workflow exploration, functional and coded prototyping, UX writing, documentation and edge-case analysis. AI-supported exploration has reduced early-stage design and iteration time by about 30%, without replacing user evidence or design judgement.\n\nDesign systems & implementation: Co-creates and evolves scalable Figma design systems and reusable UI patterns, partnering with Engineering on component behaviour, accessibility, Storybook and Vue 2 to Vue 3 modernisation to improve consistency, reduce design-to-development handoff time and raise implementation quality.\n\nCore capabilities\n\nProduct design & leadership\n\nEnd-to-end Product Design\nDesign Direction and Decision-making\nComplex SaaS Workflows\nStakeholder Presentations\nCross-functional Product Partnership\nMentoring and Coaching\n\nAI & design systems\n\nClaude, Cursor and Figma AI\nAI-assisted Functional Prototyping\nFigma Design Systems\nVariables, Tokens and Components\nStorybook and Implementation Review\nAccessibility and Responsive Design\n\nResearch & product thinking\n\nUser Research and Journey Mapping\nUsability Testing and Insight Synthesis\nProduct Analytics and A/B Testing\nConversational UX and UX Writing\nEdge-case and Workflow Analysis\nDeveloper Collaboration through Delivery\n\nProfessional experience\n\nUX/UI & Product Designer | Maropost AustraliaJan 2022 – Present\n\nBrisbane | Remote global team across Australia, Canada, Europe and India\n\nOwn end-to-end product design across complex SaaS, e-commerce, responsive web and mobile experiences, from discovery and user journeys through delivery and implementation review.\n\nShape design direction across key product areas, presenting rationale and trade-offs to Product and Engineering and balancing customer evidence, technical constraints and business priorities.\n\nRedesigned onboarding and core journeys, improving activation rates and increasing engagement; partnered with Product and Growth on A/B tests that improved conversion and task completion on critical flows.\n\nCo-create and evolve Maropost’s design system, defining reusable patterns and components, reducing design-to-development handoff time and improving consistency across teams.\n\nUse Claude, Cursor and Figma AI to synthesise research, explore workflows, build functional and coded prototypes, document behaviour and identify edge cases, reducing design iteration cycles by about 30%.\n\nOwn key journeys including onboarding, authentication, checkout, billing, account management, campaigns, support and tickets; designed conversational flows for order tracking, delivery, returns and payments, reducing support friction on high-intent queries.\n\nPartner with engineers through Vue 2 to Vue 3 modernisation, aligning component behaviour, accessibility, Storybook and implementation quality; stay involved through implementation to protect design intent.\n\nDesign Mentor – UX/UI Design | RMIT OnlineNov 2021 – Present\n\nMentor emerging designers in user research, interaction design, design systems, accessibility, visual hierarchy and clear design rationale.\n\nGive practical, constructive feedback on research plans, user flows, prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces, helping students communicate and defend their design decisions.\n\nUX/UI & Web Designer | Hunter Promotional ProductsApr 2019 – Jan 2022\n\nBrisbane\n\nLed UX/UI design for responsive e-commerce websites, customer web stores, online service journeys, landing pages and supporting digital assets.\n\nUsed competitive analysis, usability reviews and customer feedback to improve navigation, content hierarchy, conversion paths and multi-device usability.\n\nCreated wireframes, prototypes and polished interfaces, then worked closely with developers through implementation to maintain visual and interaction quality.\n\nSelected product work\n\nNavigation menu builder: Led UX/UI for Phase 1 of the Commerce menu builder so catalog-heavy merchants can stop linking one item at a time - listing, two-pane editor with bulk add and nested children to three levels, item details, hide without delete, and desktop and mobile preview before the menu goes live. Prototype.\n\nStore onboarding: Led UX/UI and product design for the Commerce store setup checklist so a new merchant can see the jobs to launch - warehouse, first product, branding, shipping, tax, payments, and domain. Get Started is live.\n\nJourney builder: Led UX/UI and product design to move Journey Builder onto Liquid Sky - cards you can scan, a node system for 33 widgets, and a phased ship that started with Welcome, Abandoned Cart, Nurture, and Advocacy. From-scratch stays on the legacy canvas until remaining widgets catch up.\n\nWebsite Chatbot: Led UX/UI and product design for the storefront chatbot, covering merchant setup, the widget, message and session feedback, and Service Cloud conversation history. Designed as one loop so merchants can publish and the team can learn from real chats.\n\nService Cloud Tickets: Led UX/UI and product design for the ticket workspace, redesigning a ten-column directory into a split view (queue, conversation, customer and orders on one screen) so agents can resolve WISMO and returns without leaving the queue. Split view ready for UAT.\n\nAI-Assisted Design System & Vue 3 Modernisation: Co-created and continue to evolve a scalable Figma component system through Vue 2 to Vue 3 modernisation, defining reusable patterns and partnering with Engineering on accessibility, behaviour and Storybook implementation. Uses Claude, Cursor and Figma AI for research synthesis, flow exploration, rapid prototyping, documentation and edge-case analysis.\n\nMarketing Cloud & Conversational Workflows: Owned workshops, research synthesis, workflow design, prototyping and usability testing for a complex campaign journey; the released UI received positive customer feedback and improved the campaign score. Also designed conversational support flows for order tracking, delivery issues, returns and payments, reducing support friction on high-intent queries.\n\nAccounts & Billing Platform: Owned discovery, user flows, wireframes and final interactions across subscription plans, usage, overages, invoices, billing details and upgrades, simplifying dense account information and improving clarity across a complex SaaS workflow.\n\nE-commerce Checkout Redesign: Owned the end-to-end redesign across guest and returning-customer journeys, combining journey mapping, competitive analysis, a detailed user flow and three design concepts. Phase 1 launched with three-step and express checkout experiences to reduce friction and improve conversion.\n\nUnified Mobile App: Owned product design from research, persona development and journey mapping through sitemap, onboarding, authentication, MFA, navigation and high-fidelity prototyping for a unified marketing and commerce experience.\n\nEarlier experience\n\nGraphic Web Designer and Event Coordinator – Multicultural Community Centre (2018–2019) | UX/UI and Web Designer – Target Solar, Frontier Education and ImpaCCCt (2017–2018) | Freelance Web and Digital Designer (2014–2016) | Web Designer and Developer – Master Software Solutions (2012–2013), including Drupal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and responsive web development | IT Lecturer – Punjab University (2011–2012)\n\nEducation & additional information\n\nDiploma of Graphic Design – TAFE Queensland, Brisbane | Master of Computer Applications – Punjab Technical University, India\n\nAustralian Citizen | Brisbane-based | Open to hybrid and remote work arrangements\n\nDownload PDF", "media": [ { "type": "document", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Samriti_Verma_Senior_Lead_UXUI_Product_Designer_Portfolio_Resume-5.pdf", "source": "content_link", "mime_type": "application/pdf", "title": "Samriti_Verma_Senior_Lead_UXUI_Product_Designer_Portfolio_Resume", "provider": "self-hosted", "context_text": "Download PDF" } ] }, { "id": 1051, "kind": "page", "wordpress_type": "page", "title": "Work", "slug": "home", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/", "modified": "2026-08-25T17:49:34", "excerpt_text": "Senior UX/UI Product Designer for complex SaaS, commerce, web, and mobile products. 7+ years owning design end to end - across technology, MarTech, education, energy, and community services. I work with product and engineering until the live product matches the design. Overview Location Based in…", "media_count": 0, "media_types": [], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1051", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/pages/home", "content_text": "Senior UX/UI Product Designer for complex SaaS, commerce, web, and mobile products.\n\n7+ years owning design end to end - across technology, MarTech, education, energy, and community services. I work with product and engineering until the live product matches the design.\n\nOverview\n\nLocation\nBased in Brisbane. Open to remote.\n\nLooking for\nSenior UX/UI Product Designer roles, and Lead where the work stays hands-on.\n\nSelected work\n\nNavigation\n\nMain Menu\nHomeShopBlog\nActive\n\nFooter Menu\nAboutContact\nInactive\n\nStorefront preview\nMaropostHomeShopBlogBag\n\nNavigation menu builder\nPrototype\n\nProblemMerchants built menus one item at a time. Catalog-heavy stores and mega menus made that too slow, with no preview until live.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI. Phase 1 listing, two-pane editor, nested bulk add, and preview.\n\nOutcomePrototype. Design ready. Bulk add, three-level nest, hide, and desktop and mobile preview.\n\nView case study\n\nProduct Purchased\n\nProduct NameSugar Buster FREE SAMPLE\n\nSend Email\n\nName:Shipping confirmation\nSubject line:Your Sugar Buster sample is on its way\n\nDelay\n\nDay:7 Days\n\nJourney builder\n\nProblemTeams still built journeys on a legacy canvas of tiny icons while the rest of Marketing Cloud had moved to Liquid Sky.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI and product design.\n\nOutcomeShipped Welcome, Abandoned Cart, Nurture, and Advocacy on the new canvas. From-scratch stays on legacy until remaining widgets catch up.\n\nView case study\n\nJohny Style Store24*7 Support Chat\n×\n\nSure, What is your question?\n\nTrack my order\n\nWhere is my order\n\nI want to change my delivery address\n\nWrite a message...+\n\nWebsite Chatbot\n\nProblemThe Figma showed a chat bubble. Merchants still could not set up, publish, or learn from a real storefront bot.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI and product design.\n\nOutcomeDesigned merchant setup, the widget, and Service Cloud conversation history as one loop.\n\nView case study\n\nQueue\n\nRefund not processedDaniel · Open\n\nWrong size sentPriya · New\n\nWhere is my orderAlex · Pending\n\nConversation\n\nRefund not processed for last week's order.\n\nLooking at order 803 now. Refund started.\n\nREPLYNOTE\n\nDONE\n\nCustomer\n\nDaniel SimsOrder 803\n\nService Cloud Tickets\n\nProblemAgents left a ten-column ticket table to hunt the conversation, the customer, and the order.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI and product design.\n\nOutcomeRedesigned the queue into a split workspace. Ready for UAT.\n\nView case study\n\nStore Name\n\nGPayPayPalLink\n\nOR\n\n1 Details\n2 Delivery\n3 Payment\n\nEmail\n\nAddress\n\nContinue\n\nOrder summary\n\nInsulated tumbler$10\n\nGreen t-shirt$10\n\nThrow pillow$20\n\nTotalAUD $40\n\nStandard - Free3-5 business days\n\nExpress - $121-2 business days\n\nContinue\n\nCard ending 4242\n\nPay now\n\n✓\nOrder placed\n\nE-commerce Checkout\n\nProblemGuest and returning shoppers stalled across login, address, delivery, and pay.\n\nRoleOwned the end-to-end redesign.\n\nOutcomePhase 1 launched with three-step checkout and express pay.\n\nView case study\n\nINVOICE\nPlan · monthly\n\nAUD 129.00\n\n•••• 4242\n\nPAID\n\nAccounts & Billing\n\nProblemPlan, usage, overages, add-ons, and invoices were dense and hard to scan.\n\nRoleOwned discovery through final UI.\n\nOutcomeA clearer billing workspace so account teams can find plan, payment, and invoices.\n\nView case study\n\nAudience\n\nMessage\n\nSend\n\nPreview\nWeekend sale\n\nCampaigns\n\nProblemMarketers could not set up, preview, and trust a campaign before send.\n\nRoleOwned research, workflow, prototype, and usability testing.\n\nOutcomeShipped Audience to Message to Send, with a preview you can trust. Campaign score improved.\n\nView case study\n\nWelcome back\nCampaigns and shop in one place\n\nInbox\n\nOrders\n\nOpen shop\n\nHomeShopYou\n\nShop\nNew this week\nInsulated tumbler\n\nGreen t-shirt\n\nThrow pillow\n\nAdd to bag\n\nHomeShopYou\n\nUnified Mobile App\nPrototype\n\nProblemMarketing and commerce lived in two apps. Teams needed one path from onboarding through shop.\n\nRoleOwned product design from research through hi-fi prototype.\n\nOutcomeDesigned through hi-fi, including onboarding, login, and MFA. Prototype. Not launched.\n\nView case study", "media": [] } ], "projects": [ { "id": 1608, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Navigation menu builder", "slug": "navigation-menu", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/navigation-menu/", "modified": "2026-08-25T17:54:09", "excerpt_text": "I designed Phase 1 of the menu builder so merchants can bulk-add nested catalog items, mix link types, and preview desktop and mobile before a menu goes live.", "media_count": 4, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1608", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/navigation-menu", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nBuilder\nOverview\nOutcome\nOpen prototype\n\nCommerce · Navigation\n\nA storefront menu you can nest, preview, and save without one-by-one linking\n\nCommerce Cloud made merchants build the tree one item at a time - name it, link it, nest it. Catalog-heavy stores could not keep up, and mega menus make that worse. I designed Phase 1 of the menu builder: a listing, a two-pane editor with bulk add and nested catalog children, then desktop and mobile preview before the menu goes live.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI\n\nPlatformMaropost Commerce\n\nScopePhase 1 listing, editor, preview\n\nOutcomePrototype. Design ready\n\nOne item at a time does not scale\n\nMerchants built menu structures in the back office by hand. Create the tree, name the item, link it to a product, collection, page, or URL, then decide the hierarchy - largely one row at a time. Catalog-heavy merchants have large collection sets, brand and seasonal paths, and little time to get that hierarchy right. Broken links, empty categories, and a shallow tree were the usual cost.\n\nMega menus will look better on the storefront. Setup gets heavier unless the back office can add many items at once, pull nested children, hide without deleting, and preview before live. I owned Phase 1 of that editor. AI generation is a later phase that writes into this same schema. Not this prototype.\n\nDesign ready. Click through it.\n\nListing, two-pane editor, item details, and storefront preview. Not labelled live.\n\nOpen the prototype\n\nConstraint\n\nCatalog first\n\nFurniture-scale catalogs need bulk apply and Include children, not another tag list. Nest stops at three levels, aligned with the storefront mega menu.\n\nDecision\n\nPreview, then confirm save\n\nDesktop and mobile preview does not require save. Saving an Active menu asks for confirmation. Inactive menus stay off the storefront.\n\nBulk add, nest to three levels, then preview\n\nCreate new Navigation starts empty on purpose. Add new leads into a bulk pick or a single item. Include children nests catalog under the parent - Furniture, Sofas, 3 Seater - up to three levels. Mix collections with pages, blogs, search, products, Home, and custom URLs. Attach a mega-menu image, or hide an item without deleting it.\n\n01\nList the menus\nName, item chips, Active or Inactive, actions. Create a menu is the path in. Existing menus still load.\n\n02\nTwo-pane tree\nName and Active sit on the editor. Structure on the left. Drag, nest, bulk apply. Not another tag list.\n\n03\nOne item, one panel\nLabel, link type, image, hide, remove. Change the linked resource without rebuilding the row.\n\n04\nPreview before save\nDesktop and mobile. Hidden items stay out. Saving Active asks before shoppers see it.\n\nFour screens from the prototype\n\nThis is the overview, not every resource-type frame. Listing, empty create, item details, then storefront preview. Open the prototype for bulk pick, Include children, hide, and save confirmation.\n\nListing Menu name, item chips, status, actions. Create a menu is the path in.\n\nCreate Empty structure. Add collections in bulk, or add a single item. Nested children come from the catalog.\n\nItem details Label, resource type, link, image. Hide on the storefront without deleting the row.\n\nPreview Desktop and Mobile. The menu sits on the storefront before save.\n\nWhat this is for\n\nPhase 1 is the editor merchants use by hand, and the schema a later AI draft would write into. I designed that path: bulk add, three-level nest, mix of link types, hide, preview, and a confirm on save. It is a prototype. Open it and click through.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nav-listing.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "nav-listing", "width": 1440, "height": 900, "caption": "Listing Menu name, item chips, status, actions. Create a menu is the path in.", "alt_text": "Navigation listing with Main Menu, Test, Footer Menu, Mega Menu, and Test Menu. 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It didn’t have a product.\n\nMerchants needed a support chatbot on their website that could answer\norder, shipping, and policy questions without waiting for an agent.\nThe Figma concept showed the widget. Production needed everything\naround it: a setup path merchants can finish without a developer,\nconversation logic, empty and error states, a way to collect\nfeedback, and a place in Service Cloud to read what actually happened.\n\nThe goal was not a prettier chat bubble. It was a reliable channel -\none that matches the design, works on desktop and mobile, connects\nto backend and AI services, and gives the team a closed loop to\nimprove answers over time.\n\nProduct outcome\n\nA storefront chatbot merchants can configure, shoppers can use, and operators can measure\n\nMerchants brand it, set hours, and publish. Customers get answers,\nsuggested questions, and a clear path to an agent. Operators see\nconversation history, star ratings, thumbs, and “what went wrong”\nreasons - so the next release is informed by real use, not guesswork.\n\nMerchants set it up themselves\n\nThe updated design file expands the merchant journey beyond branding. They create a chatbot from an empty list, name it,\ntheme it, set hours, write quick prompts, attach a knowledge base,\nchoose what the form captures, then generate a preview and publish.\nSave Changes is a draft. Publish Chatbot is live.\n\n01 · Chatbots\n\nCreate from empty\n\nEmpty state, then a list with a 20-bot cap. Create new chatbot is the only primary action.\n\n02 · General\n\nName the bot\n\nChatbot name and description - not a street address. Preview on the right updates as they type.\n\n03 · Appearance\n\nBrand the widget\n\nLogo (160×160 PNG/SVG), colour palette or custom hex, live widget preview, Save changes.\n\n04 · Hours\n\nWhen it is on\n\n24/7 availability or custom hours for each day. If the store is closed, the widget should not pretend an agent is there.\n\n05 · Quick prompts\n\nSuggested questions\n\nDefault chips like Track my order and Where is my order. Merchants edit the prompts shoppers see first.\n\n06 · Knowledge\n\nTeach the bot\n\nPaste a URL or upload a PDF, TXT, DOC, or DOCX file (up to 5 MB). This is how answers stay on-brand without a developer.\n\n07 · Forms\n\nWhat to capture\n\nEmail, name, phone - on or off. The bot only asks for what the merchant actually needs.\n\n08 · Preview\n\nThen publish\n\nGenerate Preview, Edit, or Publish Chatbot. They never commit to the storefront blind.\n\nChatbots\nList, 9 of 20 cap, Create new chatbot.\n\nGeneral\nChatbot name and description, with live preview.\n\nAppearance\nLogo, primary colour, live widget.\n\nBusiness hours\n24×7 or per-day from/to times.\n\nQuick prompts\nDefault questions shoppers tap to start.\n\nKnowledge base\nURL or PDF / TXT / Doc upload.\n\nForm settings\nCapture email, name, phone.\n\nLive preview\nGenerate, edit, or publish.\n\nTwo feedback jobs. Two controls.\n\nEarly drafts mixed thumbs and stars on the same moment. That creates\nnoisy data: a bad answer and a bad session are not the same thing.\nThe final interaction model separates these signals.\n\nOn the message\n\nThumbs up / thumbs down\n\nShown on bot replies that can be judged - not welcome, login,\nticket-created, or order-identification prompts. Thumbs down opens\na reason list (Didn’t solve my issue, Inaccurate information,\nConfusing response, Didn’t understand my issue, Other) so the\nteam knows why the answer failed.\n\nOn the conversation\n\nStar rating at close\n\nWhen the visitor ends the chat - “How was your chat with Sam?” -\nthey rate the whole session from 1–5, or skip. Stars live on the\nConversations list. Thumbs live on each reply and in the Chatbot\nFeedback table. Operators can scan quality, then drill into the\nexact message that went wrong.\n\nLive widget\n\nBuilt to the feedback design specification: header, bubbles, suggestion chips,\nthumbs, reason chips, Other + submit, and session CSAT on close.\nTry an order question, then thumbs-down a reply and close the chat.\n\njohny-style.store\n\nOrder #N1237\n\nDispatched 18 Jun · In transit\n\nNeed to change the delivery address, check a return, or ask when it arrives? The chatbot on the right is the same widget designed for the merchant site - not a separate admin tool.\n\nUse a suggested question, rate a bot reply with thumbs, then hit the × to leave a star rating for the session.\n\nJohny Style Store\n\n24/7 Support Chat\n\nStorefront states, designed in Figma\n\nThe Collect Feedback frames cover the customer path from a judged reply\nthrough reason capture and session rating. These are the source of truth\nthe live widget follows.\n\nMessage feedback\nThumbs on the bot reply. Down opens “What went wrong?” with selectable reasons.\n\nSession close\nClosing the widget asks for a star rating. Skip is always available - never trap the visitor.\n\nCSAT submitted\nStars are the conversation score. They appear on the admin Conversations list, not on every bubble.\n\nGuest order lookup, without leaking PII\n\nA guest can ask where an order is. I designed the lookup so it does not\nshare order details until the visitor logs in or verifies with a one-time\nemail code. These three frames are the overview: the gate, the code, then\nthe order answer.\n\nAuth required\nOrder lookup asks the visitor to log in or verify with a one-time email code.\n\nEnter OTP\nSix boxes. Progress shows how many digits are in.\n\nVerified\nOrder 10482. Shipped, AusPost, tracking, expected delivery. Next actions without asking again.\n\nThe loop closes in Service Cloud\n\nA storefront widget without an operator view is a black box. Conversations\nis the transcript: star rating on the session, thumbs on bot replies,\nand Create Ticket when the bot can’t finish the job.\n\nConversations -\nList + transcript. Star rating at conversation level. Thumbs on bot\nreplies in the thread. Create Ticket when the bot can’t finish the job.\n\nDesign to production\n\nThe work covered the full journey: understanding the Figma and user flow, defining behaviour, specifying the interface and service integrations, documenting edge cases, and preparing the product for implementation and ongoing improvement.\n\n01\n\nDesign\n\nReview Figma, map merchant setup and the conversation, specify every state - loading, empty, error, thumbs, CSAT, skip.\n\n02\n\nInterface\n\nResponsive widget: messages, chips, input, buttons, focus order, and touch targets that work on mobile.\n\n03\n\nIntegrate\n\nConversation logic, AI/backend, order and policy APIs, persistence for history and feedback.\n\n04\n\nShip & learn\n\nTest edges, harden security and reliability, deploy, then improve from thumbs, stars, and usage.\n\nWhat the product had to cover\n\nMerchant setup: create, name, appearance, hours, prompts, knowledge, forms, publish\n\nResponsive implementation specifications based on the Figma screens\n\nMessages, input, buttons, loading, errors, and interactions\n\nConversation flow and chatbot logic\n\nAI / backend services and required APIs or data sources\n\nConversation history, suggested questions, and feedback\n\nDesktop and mobile, including accessibility basics\n\nEdge cases, performance, security, and reliability\n\nProduction deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement\n\nStates that had to be real, not implied\n\nMerchant setup Create → name → brand → hours → prompts → knowledge base → forms → preview → publish.\n\nSuggested questions Recognition over recall - offer the three most likely intents before asking people to type.\n\nLoading Typing indicator while the model or order API responds. Never a frozen input.\n\nThumbs + reasons Diagnose the answer. “Other” reveals a short free-text field, then Submit.\n\nSession CSAT Rate the chat on close. Skip is equal to Submit in hierarchy - leaving is allowed.\n\nHistory Operators open the same thread, see stars and thumbs, and can create a ticket.\n\nGuest order lookup Log in or a one-time email code before any order details. Wrong codes count down. Three fails lock the lookup.\n\nAuth declined If they skip verify, no PII. Offer verify, log in, or an agent.\n\nErrors If the bot or an API fails, say so in plain language and keep the composer available.\n\nWhat I would look for after launch\n\nThe Figma file is the contract. The product is the loop: thumbs-down reasons\nfeeding answer quality, conversation stars feeding overall CSAT, and\nCreate Ticket catching the cases the bot should not fake. From there\nthe work is monitoring, not more chrome - which replies fail, which\nintents need better data, and where mobile still drops the composer.\n\nWebsite chatbot · Lead UX / UI & Product Design · Service Cloud Tickets", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-preview.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-preview", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "caption": "Live preview Generate, edit, or publish.", "alt_text": "Live preview with Generate Preview Edit and Publish", "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-list.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-list", "caption": "Chatbots List, 9 of 20 cap, Create new chatbot.", "alt_text": "Chatbots list with Create new chatbot", "width": 1400, "height": 1125, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-general.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-general", "caption": "General Chatbot name and description, with live preview.", "alt_text": "General setup with chatbot name and description", "width": 1323, "height": 1600, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-appearance.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-appearance", "caption": "Appearance Logo, primary colour, live widget.", "alt_text": "Appearance setup with logo and brand colour", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-hours.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-hours", "caption": "Business hours 24×7 or per-day from/to times.", "alt_text": "Business hours 24x7 or custom per day", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-prompts.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-prompts", "caption": "Quick prompts Default questions shoppers tap to start.", "alt_text": "Quick Prompts for suggested chat questions", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-kb.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-kb", "caption": "Knowledge base URL or PDF / TXT / Doc upload.", "alt_text": "Knowledge base URL and file upload", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/setup-forms.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "setup-forms", "caption": "Form settings Capture email, name, phone.", "alt_text": "Form settings for email name and phone capture", "width": 1158, "height": 1400, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/widget-reasons.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "widget-reasons", "caption": "Message feedback Thumbs on the bot reply. Down opens “What went wrong?” with selectable reasons.", "alt_text": "Chat widget with thumbs down and reason chips", "width": 379, "height": 642, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/widget-thumbs.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "widget-thumbs", "caption": "Session close Closing the widget asks for a star rating. Skip is always available - never trap the visitor.", "alt_text": "Session close asking how the chat was", "width": 379, "height": 642, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/widget-csat.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "widget-csat", "caption": "CSAT submitted Stars are the conversation score. They appear on the admin Conversations list, not on every bubble.", "alt_text": "Three-star rating selected on the CSAT card", "width": 379, "height": 642, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/guest-03-auth.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "guest-03-auth", "caption": "Auth required Order lookup asks the visitor to log in or verify with a one-time email code.", "alt_text": "Chat widget asking the visitor to log in or verify with a one-time email code before order lookup", "width": 360, "height": 640, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/guest-06-otp.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "guest-06-otp", "caption": "Enter OTP Six boxes. Progress shows how many digits are in.", "alt_text": "Six-box one-time code input with three digits entered", "width": 360, "height": 640, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/guest-10-verified.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "guest-10-verified", "caption": "Verified Order 10482. Shipped, AusPost, tracking, expected delivery. Next actions without asking again.", "alt_text": "Verified chat showing order 10482 shipped with AusPost tracking and next-action chips", "width": 360, "height": 640, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/admin-conversations.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "admin-conversations", "caption": "Conversations - List + transcript. Star rating at conversation level. Thumbs on bot replies in the thread. Create Ticket when the bot can’t finish the job.", "alt_text": "Service Cloud Conversations list with star ratings and transcript", "width": 1400, "height": 826, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1444, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Journey builder", "slug": "journey-builder", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/journey-builder/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:45:17", "excerpt_text": "I led the UX and product design to move Journey Builder onto Liquid Sky - cards you can scan, a node system for 33 widgets, and a phased ship that started with the journeys marketers create first.", "media_count": 9, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1444", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/journey-builder", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nDecisions\nCanvas\nSystem\nShip\nLeadership\n\nSee the canvas\n\nMarketing Cloud · Journey Builder\n\nThe fourth-most-used feature, rebuilt as a system\n\nI led the UX and product design to move Journey Builder off the original\nMarketing Cloud canvas and into Liquid Sky - 33 widgets, a new node\nlanguage, and a phased ship that started with the journeys marketers\nactually create first.\n\nRoleLead UX / UI & Product Design\n\nPlatformMaropost Marketing Cloud\n\nScopeCanvas, 33 widgets, templates\n\nOutcomeShipped on core templates\n\nThe product worked. The experience had fallen behind.\n\nJourney Builder is how marketers automate revenue: a new subscriber\nwaits, gets an email, splits on behaviour, waits again, exits.\nTeams still built journeys every day. It was the fourth-most-used\nfeature in the cloud. The canvas they built on was the original\nMarketing Cloud UI - a dark grid of tiny icons, labels underneath,\nhover to understand, left-to-right only.\n\nThat was not a visual complaint. The rest of the platform had moved\nto Liquid Sky. Journeys had not. Prospects comparing us to Klaviyo\nor Keap met a builder that looked a generation behind. Internally,\nthe old framework was also a security and delivery risk: every\nremaining legacy surface is a surface we cannot modernise, report\non, or protect the same way.\n\nThe brief was not “make the boxes prettier.” It was: redesign the\npresentation layer so a marketer can read a journey at a glance,\nconfigure a node without losing the map, and so engineering can\nmove thirty-three widgets onto Vue 3 without inventing a new\npattern for each one.\n\nProduct outcome\n\nA canvas people can scan, and a system engineering can ship\n\nCards at working zoom. Icons when you pull back. Configuration in a\ndrawer, not a modal over the flow. Colour by job - trigger, action,\nfilter, delay, end. Welcome, Abandoned Cart, Nurture, and Advocacy\ntemplates now land on the new canvas. Journeys created from scratch remain on the legacy builder until the remaining widgets catch up.\n\nBefore was recognition by hover. After is recognition on the card.\n\nThe old node was an icon with a caption. On a five-step welcome flow\nthat is merely dated. On a branched post-purchase journey it is a\nmemory test. The new node is a card: type, title, the one or two\nfacts a marketer needs without opening it, and connectors on every\nside so complex journeys can go vertical.\n\nBefore · legacy canvas\n\nIcon + caption\nTiny glyphs, labels below, accordion on the left. Fine for a straight line. Hostile once the journey branches.\n\nAfter · Liquid Sky canvas\n\nCard + context\nEach node states its job and its config. Triggers, actions, filters, delay, and end live in the left palette - the card on the canvas already shows the list and the email.\n\nFour decisions that made it a product, not a reskin\n\nA reskin would have kept the same information architecture and painted\nLiquid Sky on top. That would have shipped faster and failed the\nactual job. These four calls are the design.\n\n01 · Progressive disclosure\n\nCards at work. Icons at altitude.\n\nCards at working zoom - enough metadata to audit the flow without\nopening drawers. Condensed Mode in the header collapses the same\njourney so a 40-node post-purchase map is still a map, not a wall\nof rectangles.\n\n02 · Spatial memory\n\nConfigure in a drawer. Keep the canvas.\n\nThe old pattern covered the flow with a modal. Marketers lost\ntheir place. The new pattern docks config on the right: list,\ncampaign, wait, content. Cancel and Save are local. The journey\nstays in peripheral vision.\n\n03 · All-sides connectivity\n\nStop forcing left-to-right.\n\nReal journeys are not a timeline. Filters split. Delays stack.\nEnds collect. Nodes connect from any side so a marketer can\norganise vertically without fighting the engine.\n\n04 · One node contract\n\nThirty-three widgets, one anatomy.\n\nColour chip, title, subtitle, facts, overflow, connectors.\nTriggers, actions, filters, delays, and ends all share it.\nThat is how a multi-quarter Vue 3 migration stays coherent\ninstead of becoming 33 one-off screens.\n\nIf a marketer has to open a node to know what it does, the canvas has already failed.\nDesign principle for the new Journey Builder\n\nThe canvas is the product\n\nEverything else is in service of this surface. Status lives in the\nheader - Condensed Mode, Save Draft, Pause, Delete All, Save &\nPublish. Zoom and fit sit on the canvas, not in a settings graveyard.\nAdding a step happens from the left palette, or from the plus on the\ncanvas next to the work.\n\nBuild from the palette -\nTriggers, Actions, Filters, Delay, End - grouped the same way as the\nnode system. Drag & Drop is a mode. The plus on a card still adds\nthe next step where it will live.\n\nThe first node is already a card\nType, title, and the list field sit on the node. The Triggers palette stays open so the next start event is one click away.\n\nFilters advertise their exits\nYes / No is on the card, not hidden in a hover. The branch is something you can read before you open the drawer.\n\nA node language, not 33 unique widgets\n\nMarketers do not think in “components.” They think in jobs. Something\nstarts the journey. Something happens. Something decides. Something\nwaits. Something ends. Colour and structure follow that model so a\nnew widget - Send to Meta, Case, A/B split - can join the family\nwithout a new visual dialect.\n\nTriggers · start\nThe event is named. The source - list, campaign, cart - sits on the card.\n\nActions · do\nSend, change, post. A thumbnail when the content is the point.\n\nFilters · decide\nThe only nodes that advertise more than one exit - Yes / No, Case, split.\n\nDelays · wait\nDuration or until a date. 3d 12h is a fact, not a hover.\n\nEnds · exit\nThe outcome is visible. The path stops here.\n\nOne anatomy. Five jobs.\nHeader, icon, title, the facts that matter, overflow, connectors on all sides.\nScroll the sheet - Events through Exit. A new widget joins this family, not a new dialect.\n\nConfiguration without losing the map\n\nOpening a node used to replace the canvas. The new pattern is a\nright-hand inspector: title, one-line job description, the fields\nthat actually change behaviour, Cancel and Save. The selected node\nstays visible on the left so the marketer is editing a step in a\njourney, not filling a form in a vacuum.\n\nTrigger · New Subscription\nPick the list. Multi-select. The card on the canvas already names the lists - the drawer is for changing them, not discovering them.\n\nAction · Send Email\nCampaign, content, sender. The heavy work stays in the existing content builders. The canvas only needs to know which email this step sends.\n\nTwo presentations. One journey.\n\nComplex accounts do not have five-step welcomes. They have\npost-purchase maps with splits on buyer type, category, and wait\nwindows measured in weeks. Card view is the working surface.\nCondensed Mode is how you still see the whole thing. Same nodes,\nsame connectors, less ink. A header toggle - not a second builder.\n\nCondensed Mode\nColour and shape still encode type. Use it to move, multi-select, and read topology without a wall of cards.\n\nThe same grammar, expanded\nTrigger and send, with the list and the subject on the cards. A marketer who knows the colour system can audit the step without opening a drawer.\n\nMulti-select\n\nMove a group, not a node\n\nCommand-Shift (or Ctrl) and drag a marquee. Whole branches relocate. The old canvas made you rebuild the cluster.\n\nConnectors\n\nAny side, not only east\n\nVertical stacks stop looking like a workaround. Yes/No and Case paths can drop instead of stretching across the board.\n\nStatus\n\nThe journey has a state\n\nActive, paused, draft - in the header, not buried in a row action. Pause is a first-class control next to publish.\n\nHow a 33-widget rebuild actually ships\n\nProduct initially wanted an all-or-nothing launch because the canvas was unsafe to enable only partially.\nIn practice, Welcome and Abandoned Cart are the journeys every customer already runs. I designed the system so the new canvas could\ngo live on those templates while from-scratch and the remaining\nwidgets stayed on the legacy builder. That is a product call, not a\ncompromise on the visual language.\n\n01 · Shipped\n\nWelcome & Abandoned Cart\n\nNew canvas after the guided template. The first time most marketers meet the rebuild.\n\n02 · Shipped\n\nNurture & Advocacy\n\nSame canvas contract on the next two templates. No second pattern for “the other journeys.”\n\n03 · In flight\n\nRemaining widgets\n\nTriggers, actions, filters, delays, ends - still moving onto Liquid Sky so from-scratch can leave the old canvas.\n\n04 · Next\n\nRe-engagement & lapsed\n\nMore templates on the new canvas once the widget set is complete enough to author them without a fallback.\n\nWhat lead-level work looked like here\n\nThis was not a set of mockups thrown over a wall. It was a multi-quarter\nplatform change with a PM who was right to be nervous about ripping\nout a well-used tool, engineers who could not migrate all 33 widgets to Vue 3 in one release, and marketers who would feel every missing\nhover target.\n\nPartner, don’t decorate\n\nPRD to canvas language\n\nThe problem statement was competitiveness, security, and a legacy\nframework. I translated that into a node anatomy, zoom behaviour,\nand a template-first rollout so the PRD had a design it could\nactually sequence.\n\nSystem before screens\n\nA library engineering can trust\n\nThe component library is the handoff. If a new action fits the\ncard contract, it does not need a design review for “where does\nthe title go.” That is how you keep a 33-widget migration on-brand\nwhen you are not in every ticket.\n\nCritique in public\n\nCross-functional feedback, then design freeze\n\nMultiple drafts - including a full “present this” pass after\nproduct and engineering review. Condensed Mode, card density, and\ndrawer vs modal were argued in the file, then locked. Exploration\nstayed on archived pages so Ready for Dev stayed quiet.\n\nChange management\n\nDo not dual-run forever\n\nSegment Builder taught us that a legacy toggle delays adoption.\nNew journeys on templates get the new canvas. Old journeys keep\nworking. There is no “classic mode” to hide in. The way out is\nfinishing the widgets, not maintaining two builders.\n\nProcess\n\n01\n\nAudit\n\nLive UAT canvas, 33 widgets, and where Liquid Sky already stopped - index yes, builder no.\n\n02\n\nFrame\n\nCompetitive builders, marketer jobs, and the constraint that this cannot ship widget-by-widget as 33 UIs.\n\n03\n\nSystem\n\nNode anatomy, colour roles, card vs Condensed Mode, drawer config, all-sides connectors. Then screens.\n\n04\n\nSequence\n\nTemplates first, remaining widgets next, from-scratch last. Design the contract once; fill it over quarters.\n\nWhat had to be specified, not implied\n\nEmpty canvas, first node, add palette, and “where do I start”\n\nCard vs Condensed Mode in the header, not a hidden setting\n\nMulti-select, group move, and connector reflow\n\nDrawer config for every widget family - not a unique modal each\n\nYes/No, Case, % split, A/B - filters that show their exits on the card\n\nPause, draft, publish, delete - status and irreversible actions\n\nTemplate-generated journeys vs from-scratch, without two visual languages\n\nHandoff: component library as the source of truth for Vue 3\n\nStates the canvas has to survive\n\nEmpty A new journey is not a blank threat. One trigger slot and a visible add affordance.\n\nWorking zoom Cards show the facts. No hover required to know which list or which email.\n\nCondensed Compact nodes. Topology first. Details wait until you switch back to cards.\n\nSelected One node is in edit. The journey around it stays readable.\n\nPaused / active Status in the header. Pause is a control, not a row menu surprise.\n\nDense 40-node post-purchase maps. Multi-select and vertical connectors exist for this, not for demos.\n\nMigration Template journeys on the new canvas; from-scratch on legacy until widgets land.\n\nError A node that cannot send still has to say so on the card, not only inside the drawer.\n\nWhat I would look for after the rest of the widgets land\n\nTemplates proving the canvas is the start, not the proof. The questions\nafter from-scratch moves over: do marketers still open every node, or do they trust the information on the card? Do they zoom out, or do they continue panning across a horizontal strip? Do support tickets about “where did my journey go” decrease? Do time to first published journey and time to edit a live journey improve on the legacy builder? That was the performance bar in the PRD, and it is the one that matters.\n\nThe Figma file is the contract. The product is whether a marketer can\nread an automated revenue machine without hovering.\n\nJourney Builder · Liquid Sky · Lead UX / UI & Product Design\n· Service Cloud tickets case\n· Website chatbot case", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-flow.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-flow", "width": 1440, "height": 1168, "caption": "Card + context Each node states its job and its config. Triggers, actions, filters, delay, and end live in the left palette - the card on the canvas already shows the list and the email.", "alt_text": "New Journey Builder canvas with New Subscription and Send Email cards, sidebar palette, and Liquid Sky chrome", "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/before-canvas.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "before-canvas", "caption": "Icon + caption Tiny glyphs, labels below, accordion on the left. Fine for a straight line. Hostile once the journey branches.", "alt_text": "Legacy Journey Builder with icon nodes and a left accordion of tools", "width": 1460, "height": 1044, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-palette.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-palette", "caption": "Build from the palette - Triggers, Actions, Filters, Delay, End - grouped the same way as the node system. Drag & Drop is a mode. The plus on a card still adds the next step where it will live.", "alt_text": "Journey Builder with the Actions palette expanded and a Delay card on the canvas", "width": 1440, "height": 1168, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-configured.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-configured", "caption": "The first node is already a card Type, title, and the list field sit on the node. The Triggers palette stays open so the next start event is one click away.", "alt_text": "New Subscription trigger card on the canvas with the Triggers palette open", "width": 1440, "height": 1024, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-split.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-split", "caption": "Filters advertise their exits Yes / No is on the card, not hidden in a hover. The branch is something you can read before you open the drawer.", "alt_text": "Filter card splitting a journey into Yes and No paths", "width": 1440, "height": 1168, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/components-library-scaled.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "components-library", "caption": "One anatomy. Five jobs. Header, icon, title, the facts that matter, overflow, connectors on all sides. Scroll the sheet - Events through Exit. A new widget joins this family, not a new dialect.", "alt_text": "Full Journey Builder card library: triggers, actions, filters, delays, ends, and connectors", "width": 1142, "height": 2560, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-drawer-trigger.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-drawer-trigger", "caption": "Trigger · New Subscription Pick the list. Multi-select. The card on the canvas already names the lists - the drawer is for changing them, not discovering them.", "alt_text": "New Subscription trigger configured in a right-hand drawer while the journey stays visible", "width": 1824, "height": 1168, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-drawer-email.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-drawer-email", "caption": "Action · Send Email Campaign, content, sender. The heavy work stays in the existing content builders. The canvas only needs to know which email this step sends.", "alt_text": "Send Email action configuration drawer with campaign and content fields", "width": 1824, "height": 1168, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/layout-icon-mode.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "layout-icon-mode", "caption": "Condensed Mode Colour and shape still encode type. Use it to move, multi-select, and read topology without a wall of cards.", "alt_text": "Condensed Mode on a branched journey with compact colour-coded nodes", "width": 1920, "height": 935, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1254, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Checkout", "slug": "checkout", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/checkout/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:43:55", "excerpt_text": "I owned the checkout redesign so guest and returning shoppers can finish: three steps plus express pay. Phase 1 launched.", "media_count": 5, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1254", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/checkout", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nDirections\nCompare\nFlow\nOutcome\nSee the directions\n\nCommerce · Checkout\n\nCheckout that guests can finish\n\nI redesigned Maropost checkout so a cart can become an order without a forced account. Guest and returning paths, shipping, and payment sit within a single flow, with the order summary in view the whole way. Phase 1 launched.\n\nRoleLead UX Design\n\nPlatformMaropost Commerce\n\nScopeGuest, address, delivery, pay\n\nOutcomePhase 1 launched\n\nShoppers stalled before they paid\n\nCheckout is where a cart becomes an order. Guest and returning shoppers were stalling across login, address, delivery, and pay. Forced account creation and a wall of fields were doing more work than the payment step.\n\nI owned the redesign as Lead UX Designer. I set the experience, mapped guest and returning paths, explored three low-fidelity directions and developed the selected approach into a high-fidelity design, and stayed with product and engineering until Phase 1 could ship.\n\nThe experience had to protect guest checkout, visible progress, clear back navigation, and express payment while remaining feasible for engineering.\n\nWhat shipped\n\nThree steps. Express pay. Order summary stays put.\n\nPhase 1 launched with a three-step checkout, multiple payment methods, and digital-wallet options. Phase 2 and 3 are planned. They are not claimed as shipped.\n\nThree directions on the same grid\n\nI started with three low-fi concepts in the Maropost shell, each with a persistent order summary (items, discount code, $261 total) so critique compared structure, not chrome.\n\nIdea 1\nStepper, then collapse\nCustomer details first - email, name, mobile, full delivery address - then Delivery Method with Standard, Priority, Express, and Pickup. Completed steps collapse with Edit.\n\nIdea 2\nEmail first\nEmail and Continue. Shipping address, shipping method, and payment stay as collapsed headers until needed. Address search instead of a form wall.\n\nIdea 3\nGuest vs sign-up\nEmail first, then Sign up and Guest checkout as equal choices. Account creation is optional, not the door.\n\nLow-fidelity · three directions Accordion-style steps, email-first progressive disclosure, and a guest vs sign-up fork. Critique picked three steps plus express, with the summary staying put.\n\nWhat I adopted—and what I rejected.\n\nI compared Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, and Kate Spade. The patterns that earned a place were visible progress, a sticky order summary, guest checkout, and express payment. What did not: copying another product's chrome, or a one-page wall of fields.\n\nCompetitive analysis Long-form (Shopify), modular edit blocks (BigCommerce), numbered dense review (Amazon), branded stepper (Kate Spade). The brief was the jobs, not a clone.\n\nThe flow had to handle failure—not only the happy path\n\nI mapped the journey from the existing checkout to confirmed payment: logged in or guest, shipping required or not, saved vs new address, payment, and the error paths when a field, method, or card fails. Product and engineering walked that map before visual design.\n\nGuest vs returning, with errors Missing fields, no shipping to the address, no payment methods, card failure, and a path back to a confirmation page. Pink is a stop. Green is paid.\n\nPhase 1 is live. The rest is labelled.\n\nHi-fi followed internal critique with product, customer success, and other stakeholders against real checkout jobs. What changed: a cleaner guest and returning path, better address completion, visible progress, and clearer errors.\n\nPhase 1 launched: three-step checkout, express pay, and more than one payment method. Phase 2 focuses on streamlining the flow and expanding payment options. Phase 3 includes a more comprehensive mobile optimisation pass. Nothing in Phase 2 or 3 is claimed as shipped.\n\nHigh-fidelity · Phase 1 The visual system that shipped with the three-step flow. Order summary stays in view.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CheckoutC.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "CheckoutC", "width": 3036, "height": 3025 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Low-fi-Concept.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Low-fi Concept", "caption": "Low-fidelity · three directions Accordion-style steps, email-first progressive disclosure, and a guest vs sign-up fork. Critique picked three steps plus express, with the summary staying put.", "alt_text": "Three low-fi checkout concepts labelled Idea 1, Idea 2, and Idea 3, each with a persistent order summary", "width": 1705, "height": 839, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Analysis_Checkout.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Analysis_Checkout", "caption": "Competitive analysis Long-form (Shopify), modular edit blocks (BigCommerce), numbered dense review (Amazon), branded stepper (Kate Spade). The brief was the jobs, not a clone.", "alt_text": "Competitive checkout screenshots from Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, and Kate Spade", "width": 1135, "height": 1262, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/UserFlow_Checkout.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "UserFlow_Checkout", "caption": "Guest vs returning, with errors Missing fields, no shipping to the address, no payment methods, card failure, and a path back to a confirmation page. Pink is a stop. Green is paid.", "alt_text": "Checkout user flow from Checkout now through confirmation, including guest vs returning and payment errors", "width": 976, "height": 1334, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Checkout-1.jpg", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/jpeg", "title": "Checkout (1)", "caption": "High-fidelity · Phase 1 The visual system that shipped with the three-step flow. Order summary stays in view.", "alt_text": "High-fidelity Maropost checkout screens", "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1318, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Service Cloud Tickets", "slug": "service-cloud-tickets", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/service-cloud-tickets/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:42:16", "excerpt_text": "I redesigned Service Cloud Tickets from a spreadsheet you leave into an inbox you work in - list, conversation, and customer on one screen.", "media_count": 4, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1318", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/service-cloud-tickets", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nBefore / after\nJourney\nWorkspace\nOutcome\nSee the redesign\n\nService Cloud · Tickets\n\nThe queue became the workspace\n\nI redesigned the Service Cloud ticket page from a spreadsheet you leave\ninto an inbox you work in - list, conversation, and customer on one\nscreen - so agents can resolve WISMO and returns without losing the queue.\n\nRoleLead UX / UI & Product Design\n\nPlatformMaropost Service Cloud\n\nScopeQueue, thread, customer, orders\n\nOutcomeSplit view ready for UAT\n\nAgents lived on Tickets. Tickets was a directory.\n\nSupport agents working in 10–50-person ecommerce teams spend the day on\nWISMO, returns, and order changes. The page they opened most was\na ten-column table. Click a row and the queue disappeared. Order\ncontext lived in Commerce. Close dumped them back to the index.\nEvery ticket was a round-trip.\n\nThat was not a visual complaint. The product outline already named\nthe pain: switching tools to find an order, painful history, and a\nticket screen that looked like nothing special versus Gorgias or\nZendesk. Prospects bounced on first demo. Agents paid the tax in\nhandle time.\n\nThe brief was not “restyle the table.” It was: keep the list and\nthe ticket visible together, put the customer and the order in\nreach, and let an agent reply and take the next unread without\nleaving the page.\n\nProduct outcome\n\nStay in the queue. See the customer. Reply in place.\n\nThree panes: a scannable queue with unread, SLA, and last message;\na conversation with Reply, Note, and Forward; a customer card with\nlinked orders. Bulk actions moved to the top. Inbox scoped the work.\nThe table is gone because the job was never to administer rows.\n\nBefore, the experience was a spreadsheet; after, it became an inbox.\n\nThe old Tickets page was excellent at showing columns and terrible at\nsupporting the work. Status and priority hid behind horizontal scroll.\nAssign, Close, and Delete sat under the table, often below the fold.\nThe new page treats Tickets the way agents already think: a queue of\nconversations, not a report.\n\nBefore · live table\n\nClick a row, leave the page\nTicket #, Subject, Contact, Date, Type, Channel, Agent, Status, Priority.\nBulk actions at the bottom. No last message. No customer. No order.\n\nAfter · split workspace\n\nClick a row, keep the queue\nList, thread, and customer stay on one screen. Unread dots, SLA, and\nstatus live on the row. Reply is in the pane, not a second page.\n\nOne ticket. Six hops - then one screen.\n\nPersona: a support agent working for a Neto/Commerce merchant. Typical ticket:\nWISMO and return requests accounted for 43% of combined ticket volume. Goal: resolve without\nleaving the queue, and without opening Commerce in another tab.\n\n01 Arrive\n\nOld\n\nDecode ten columns to decide what is urgent. Horizontal scroll hides Status and Priority.\n\nNew\n\nUnread dot, last-message snippet, SLA, channel, and status badge are on the row. Triage in seconds.\n\n02 Open\n\nOld\n\nFull-page navigation. The list vanishes. Place in the queue is lost until you come back.\n\nNew\n\nConversation opens beside the list. Selected row stays highlighted. Next and previous stay in view.\n\n03 Context\n\nOld\n\nDetail is conversation-only. Agent opens Commerce to find the order. Two tools, two mental models.\n\nNew\n\nRight panel shows contact, LTV, and linked orders - item, paid, fulfilment - without leaving Service Cloud.\n\n04 Reply\n\nOld\n\nReply is a separate view. Changing status often refreshed the page and jumped the scroll.\n\nNew\n\nReply, Note, and Forward sit on the thread. Status, priority, and assignee stay on the ticket header.\n\n05 Next\n\nOld\n\nClose redirected to the index. Re-scan the table. Repeat the hop for every ticket.\n\nNew\n\nClose in place. The list updates. Click the next unread ticket. The flow never breaks.\n\n06 Bulk\n\nOld\n\nAssign, Close, Delete under the table - easy to miss. No merge or spam in the primary bar.\n\nNew\n\nSelect rows and the top bar becomes Assign, Close, Merge, Delete, Spam, Move. Filters stay as chips.\n\nIf an agent has to leave the queue to work a ticket, the page has already failed.\nDesign principle for the Service Cloud ticket workspace\n\nThe last line shows on hover\n\nThe queue stays a scan: subject, agent, time, status. The ticket\ndescription is not in the row. Hover reveals the last customer line so\nan agent can confirm the ticket without opening it, and without turning\nthe list into a wall of previews.\n\nWhat this is for\n\nThe redesign is not polish. It changes the job: from “find a row,\nopen a page, come back” to “work the queue.” That is the outcome to\nprotect in UAT - list and ticket visible together, customer and order\nin reach, reply in place.\n\nOne screen\n\nWISMO cycle that used to take six hops: list, detail, Commerce, back, reply, index.\n\nHandle time\n\nThe design takes navigation and tab-switching off the critical path. That is what UAT should prove, not a reported metric.\n\nFirst reply\n\nPaid and fulfilment on the ticket should mean fewer \"let me check and come back\" replies. Hypothesis for UAT, not a result.\n\nDemo\n\nThe ticket screen stops being a sales objection against Gorgias and Zendesk.\n\nFor the agent\n\nStay oriented\n\nThe queue never vanishes. Last customer message is visible before\nopening. Reply does not change the page. Bulk assign and spam do\nnot require scrolling to a footer.\n\nFor the business\n\nSupport as a retention lever\n\nFaster resolution on the two highest-volume types. Less refund delay\ncaused by hunting orders. A ticket product that can be shown in a\nsales demo without apology.\n\nFour decisions that made it a product, not a reskin\n\nAn early pass put a drawer over the same table. That met “side by side”\non paper and still hid Status behind the panel. The final design\nstopped treating the table as sacred and designed the queue instead.\n\n01 · Workspace, not drawer\n\nDo not slide a detail over a spreadsheet.\n\nA 50% drawer on a ten-column table still makes agents guess at\nhidden columns. The list became a conversation list so split view\nhas something worth splitting.\n\n02 · Recognition on the row\n\nUnread, SLA, last line, status.\n\nIf you have to open a ticket to know whether it is waiting on the\ncustomer, the queue has already failed. The row carries the facts\nan agent needs to pick the next piece of work.\n\n03 · Commerce in the pane\n\nOrders are part of the ticket, not a deep link.\n\nWISMO and returns are 43% of volume. Linking the order on the\ncustomer panel is how Service Cloud stops being a generic helpdesk.\n\n04 · Bulk is a mode\n\nFilters stay filters. Ticket actions move to the top bar.\n\nSelecting tickets replaces the chrome with Assign, Close, Merge,\nSpam. Reading one conversation pauses until selection is cleared.\nTwo jobs, one layout.\n\nProcess\n\n01\n\nAudit\n\nLive table, full-page detail, bulk under the fold, and the agent pain already written in the product outline.\n\n02\n\nFrame\n\nThe list and ticket must remain visible together across responsive layouts. Order context in reach. Reply in place.\n\n03\n\nIterate\n\nTable-plus-drawer first. Then a true inbox: queue, thread, customer. Bulk and inbox selection on the same surface.\n\n04\n\nHandoff\n\nThe split-view workspace moved into UAT. Protect the workspace behaviour - not a restyle of the old columns.\n\nWhat had to be specified, not implied\n\nQueue row anatomy: unread, SLA, last message, channel, status\n\nSelected ticket vs bulk-selected tickets - two modes, one layout\n\nReply, Note, Forward on the thread - not a second page\n\nCustomer card with linked orders, paid, fulfilment, history\n\nInbox selector as the primary scope, chips as secondary filters\n\nClose in place - never dump the agent back to an index\n\nNarrow desktop: list + thread. Mobile: list, then full-screen ticket\n\nEmpty, loading, no-results, and closed-ticket states on the same chrome\n\nService Cloud Tickets · Lead UX / UI & Product Design", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/after-workspace.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Service Cloud Tickets", "alt_text": "Service Cloud Tickets workspace", "width": 1280, "height": 938 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/before-table.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "before-table", "caption": "Click a row, leave the page Ticket #, Subject, Contact, Date, Type, Channel, Agent, Status, Priority. Bulk actions at the bottom. No last message. No customer. No order.", "alt_text": "Old Service Cloud tickets page as a dense ten-column table with bulk actions under the list", "width": 1460, "height": 1044, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/after-split.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "after-split", "caption": "Click a row, keep the queue List, thread, and customer stay on one screen. Unread dots, SLA, and status live on the row. Reply is in the pane, not a second page.", "alt_text": "Redesigned tickets page with queue on the left, conversation in the centre, and customer on the right", "width": 1280, "height": 938, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/figma-ticket-hover.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "figma-ticket-hover", "alt_text": "Tickets workspace with left nav open. The hovered row shows the last customer message; other rows stay compact.", "width": 2560, "height": 1876, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1176, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Mobile App", "slug": "mobile-app", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/mobile-app/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:42:13", "excerpt_text": "I owned product design for a unified Maropost app, from onboarding and MFA through marketing and commerce. Prototype. Not launched.", "media_count": 3, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1176", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/mobile-app", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nFirst run\nMap\nSee the screens\n\nMaropost · Mobile\n\nOne app, from first open to daily operations\n\nMaropost had two mobile apps: marketing (dashboards and reports) and commerce (fulfilment and shipping labels). Teams wanted campaigns and shop in one place. I owned the product design through high-fidelity prototyping. The concept was not launched.\n\nRoleUX / UI and Product Design\n\nPlatformUnified Maropost app\n\nScopeOnboarding, login, MFA, shell\n\nOutcomePrototype. Not launched\n\nTwo apps. Two mental models.\n\nI started with the frustrations: two apps, no single path from a campaign to an order. Interviews and an all-rounder persona framed who had to do both jobs. I worked with Marketing Cloud product owners, customer success, a business analyst, and engineering.\n\nThis case study covers the product design through high-fidelity prototyping. The concept did not progress to launch.\n\nStatus\n\nPrototype\nDesigned through hi-fi. Not launched.\n\nThe prototype covered onboarding; Google, Salesforce, and Apple sign-in; a six-digit MFA flow; and the unified marketing and commerce shell. The value is the system and the journeys.\n\nThe first-run experience had to earn the login\n\nAn early flow mapped four swipe screens into login. Hi-fi tightened that to three onboarding screens - Quick as your fingertips, Create a personalized experience, Perfect for last minute changes - then Get started.\n\nLogin is email and password, or Google, Salesforce, or Apple. There is no self-service sign-up; users without a Maropost account are directed to contact their administrator. MFA is a six-digit code sent to a masked number, with empty, keypad, and filled states specified.\n\nHigh-fidelity · onboarding, login, MFA Skip and Next on the first two screens. Get started on the third. Rainbow bar on the chrome. Validate is disabled until all six digits have been entered.\n\nThe map before the screens\n\nThe earlier journey used a four-step progress mark (welcome, last-minute changes, data at your fingertips, the important parts) into the login screen. The high-fidelity design kept the core jobs and removed one step to shorten the first-run experience.\n\nEarly flow map User taps icon, swipes through explanation screens with Skip / Next / Finish, then login. Process artifact, not the shipped visual.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Mobile-App-design.jpg", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/jpeg", "title": "Mobile-App-design", "width": 500, "height": 500 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MOBILEAPP.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "MOBILEAPP", "caption": "High-fidelity · onboarding, login, MFA Skip and Next on the first two screens. Get started on the third. Rainbow bar on the chrome. Validate is disabled until all six digits have been entered.", "alt_text": "Hi-fi mobile flow for three onboarding screens, login with Google Salesforce and Apple, and six-digit MFA", "width": 1328, "height": 351, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Frame-12.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Site Mapping", "caption": "Early flow map User taps icon, swipes through explanation screens with Skip / Next / Finish, then login. Process artifact, not the shipped visual.", "alt_text": "Early onboarding user flow with four swipe screens into login", "width": 6058, "height": 1186, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1174, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Admin Panel", "slug": "admin-panel", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/admin-panel/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:41:59", "excerpt_text": "I designed the internal admin for Finance, Customer Success, and Deliverability so shared work is not a hunt across siloed data.", "media_count": 3, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1174", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/admin-panel", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nData\nWorkspace\nSee the workspace\n\nInternal · Admin\n\nOne customer. Three teams. Shared data.\n\nThe admin panel is an internal tool for Finance, Customer Success, and Deliverability. Daily work crossed teams. The data did not. I designed the surface they could share - not a restyle of a private list.\n\nRoleUX designer\n\nUsersFinance, CS, Deliverability\n\nScopeCustomers, subscription, usage\n\nOutcomeClearer shared workspace\n\nSilos were the product bug\n\nCustomer Success held account settings and overages. Deliverability held ecosystem health, ISP reports, and delivery reports. Finance held NetSuite invoices and consolidated cluster data. Soft bounce, complaint rate, and blocks sat between CS and Deliverability. Renewals, contract changes, and trailing overages sat between CS and Finance. Deliverability and Finance had no overlap. No shared workspace connected all three teams.\n\nI was the UX designer: interviews with those internal teams, user flows, wireframes, and hi-fi. The brief was to understand the frustration, then design a surface they could share. The outcomes reported here are specific to the admin-panel work.\n\nConstraint\n\nFeasible for engineering. Viable for the business. Usable for Maropost employees.\n\nAny data visualisation had to be technically feasible—either built in-house or supported by a viable third-party tool. Ease of use for internal teams was non-negotiable. The viable solution had to balance technical feasibility, business value, and usability—not simply produce a prettier table.\n\nOverlapping data - except where it does not CS, Deliverability, and Finance as three circles. Shared bounce and complaint data. Shared renewals and overages. No overlap between Deliverability and Finance. No three-way centre.\n\nThe workspace is customers, not campaigns\n\nThe first iteration introduced a customer table (ID, business name, email, created date, and actions) and an Add Customer action. The form asks for business name, account number, success manager, deliverability manager, package plan, subscription dates, licence hours, CRM, and a Stripe URL - because those teams already needed those fields in one place.\n\nThe Edit Customer view is organised into Profile, Address, and Subscription. Subscription shows plan, billing frequency, renewal, and monthly usage with export. Haymarket Media is the working example in the file.\n\nHi-fi · first iteration List, add, profile tabs, and a usage table with export. Success manager and deliverability manager sit on the same customer, not in separate tools.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Admin.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Admin", "width": 2084, "height": 2084 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Overlapping-date.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Overlapping date", "caption": "Overlapping data - except where it does not CS, Deliverability, and Finance as three circles. Shared bounce and complaint data. Shared renewals and overages. No overlap between Deliverability and Finance. No three-way centre.", "alt_text": "Venn diagram of siloed data across Customer Success, Deliverability, and Finance", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Admin-Panel.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Admin Panel", "caption": "Hi-fi · first iteration List, add, profile tabs, and a usage table with export. Success manager and deliverability manager sit on the same customer, not in separate tools.", "alt_text": "Admin panel screens for customer list, add customer, edit profile, and subscription usage", "width": 6614, "height": 2157, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1172, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Accounts & Billing", "slug": "accounts-billing", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/accounts-billing/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:41:50", "excerpt_text": "I owned Accounts and Billing so plan, add-ons, payment, and invoices are scannable. Qualitative outcome only.", "media_count": 4, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1172", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/accounts-billing", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nArchitecture\nPrototype\nOutcome\nSee the prototype\n\nMarketing Cloud · Accounts\n\nBilling you can scan\n\nI owned Accounts and Billing from research through hi-fi. Plan, usage, overages, add-ons, invoices, and payment methods needed to form a workspace people could navigate and understand - including the Stripe handoff and the payment-failed edge.\n\nRoleUX / UI and Product Design\n\nPlatformMaropost\n\nScopeOverview through invoices\n\nOutcomeClearer billing workspace\n\nThe jobs were buried in a dense layout\n\nAccounts and Billing is where Maropost customers manage plan, usage, overages, add-ons, invoices, payment methods, and upgrades. The old surface buried those jobs. Customers could not quickly see which plan they were on, what they owed, or how to make a change.\n\nI owned the redesign inside the Maropost design system. Product, engineering, and customer success were in the room from the start. Interviews, surveys, and product usage pointed at the same friction: plan and usage were hard to find; upgrade was a guess; invoices were a hunt.\n\nInformation architecture\n\nOverview, Company, Subscription, Payment methods, Invoices, Quotes.\n\nUpgrade, add-on, and cancel sit on that map. If payment has failed, upgrades stop. Stripe handles payment—the interface has to explain the redirect and return customers to the correct account state.\n\nIA and the change-plan flow Overview with current plan. Company info. Subscription packages by location. Payment methods including card, Stripe, and wire. Invoices you can filter and download. Quotes. Red note: upgrades are unavailable while an account has an unresolved payment failure.\n\nThe prototype is the product map\n\nThe information architecture remained stable from low-fidelity wireframes through high-fidelity prototypes. The wired prototype covers legacy plans, new vs existing customers, add-on changes, usage, and the Stripe redirect - not a restyle of one settings page.\n\nHigh-fidelity prototype Subscriptions with a Legacy badge. Plans for new users vs plan plus add-ons. Add-on modal. Redirect to Stripe. Confirmation after the handoff.\n\nWhat changed\n\nThe billing workspace is easier to scan. Plan, add-ons, payment methods, and invoices sit in a clearer structure, including the Stripe handoff. Customer feedback was positive, but no engagement or conversion baseline was captured; outcomes are therefore reported qualitatively.\n\nLow-fidelity design on the same map Structure before visual polish. The IA did not change between wireframe and prototype.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Redesign1.jpg", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/jpeg", "title": "Redesign1", "width": 500, "height": 500 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Account-Billing.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Account & Billing", "caption": "IA and the change-plan flow Overview with current plan. Company info. Subscription packages by location. Payment methods including card, Stripe, and wire. Invoices you can filter and download. Quotes. Red note: upgrades are unavailable while an account has an unresolved payment failure.", "alt_text": "Information architecture and upgrade, change, and cancel flow for Accounts and Billing", "width": 2450, "height": 693, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AccountsProtype.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "AccountsProtype", "caption": "High-fidelity prototype Subscriptions with a Legacy badge. Plans for new users vs plan plus add-ons. Add-on modal. Redirect to Stripe. Confirmation after the handoff.", "alt_text": "High-fidelity Accounts and Billing prototype map including plans, add-ons, and Redirect to Stripe", "width": 1209, "height": 635, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/LowFi-Wireframe.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "LowFi Wireframe", "caption": "Low-fidelity design on the same map Structure before visual polish. The IA did not change between wireframe and prototype.", "alt_text": "Low-fidelity wireframes for the Accounts and Billing workspace", "width": 14197, "height": 3777, "provider": "self-hosted" } ] }, { "id": 1048, "kind": "project", "wordpress_type": "post", "title": "Push Campaign", "slug": "push-campaign", "source_url": "https://samriticreative.com/push-campaign/", "modified": "2026-08-24T12:40:53", "excerpt_text": "I owned Push Campaigns from Audience to Message to Send, with a preview you can trust. The UI shipped. Campaign score improved.", "media_count": 4, "media_types": [ "image" ], "content_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-json/codex-content/v1/item/1048", "mirror_endpoint": "https://samriticreative.com/portfolio-data/projects/push-campaign", "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nApp setup\nCampaign\nPreview\nSee the preview\n\nMarketing Cloud · Push\n\nAudience. Message. Send. Preview you can trust.\n\nPush campaigns were hard to set up. Marketers could not see the path from audience to message to send, or trust a preview before it went out. I owned the experience through release - including the prerequisite app configuration that must work before anyone can send a campaign.\n\nRoleUX / UI and Product Design\n\nPlatformMaropost Marketing Cloud\n\nScopeApps, campaign, device preview\n\nOutcomeShipped. Score improved\n\nSetup was a feature dump. Preview was a slide.\n\nThe admin UI felt dated. The notification still had to work on iOS and Android - lock screen, banner, and in-app - so preview was part of the product, not a deck. A workshop mapping the information architecture and key workflows identified the gaps. We defined the job as Audience, Message, Send.\n\nI owned research, workflow, prototype, and usability testing in the Maropost system, and stayed with product and engineering through release.\n\nWhat shipped\n\nA path marketers can finish.\n\nThe new UI shipped, and Customer Success reported positive qualitative feedback. No baseline metric was captured, so I am not claiming a numerical improvement.\n\nYou cannot send until the app is real\n\nBefore a campaign, someone has to configure the push app: name, Sandbox vs Production, Android (FCM server key and package name) and iOS (bundle ID, certificate password, .p12 / .pem). Contacts are segmented into All, Production, Sandbox, and Inactive, with import and export.\n\nI explored a table of apps and a card view. Both had to show platform and environment without making credentials feel like a developer-only form.\n\nPush app configuration Sandbox and Production as environments, not labels. Android and iOS credentials on the same app. Audience blocks by environment.\n\nThen the campaign itself\n\nThe IA pass moved settings that did not belong on the campaign list. The Create Campaign flow requires a name, status, platform, message type, send time, and app—followed by a preview that matches the device.\n\nResearch and restructure App configuration on the left. Annotated campaign list on the right. Sticky notes on what belongs under Segments, Settings, or the campaign itself.\n\nPreview is the product\n\nThe prototype wires desktop setup to a live device frame, then to iOS banner, iOS in-app, Android lock screen, Android banner, and Android in-app. If those states are not in the file, marketers are guessing.\n\nPrototype · desktop plus devices Audience to Message to Send on the left. Lock, banner, and in-app on the right. Flows for iOS and Android, not one generic phone.", "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PushNoty.png", "source": "featured_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "PushNoty", "width": 742, "height": 715 }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WIREFRAME.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "WIREFRAME", "caption": "Push app configuration Sandbox and Production as environments, not labels. Android and iOS credentials on the same app. Audience blocks by environment.", "alt_text": "Wireframes for mobile app configuration including Android FCM keys and iOS push certificates", "width": 1436, "height": 907, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PesearchPushCamp.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "ResearchPushCamp", "caption": "Research and restructure App configuration on the left. Annotated campaign list on the right. Sticky notes on what belongs under Segments, Settings, or the campaign itself.", "alt_text": "Research board for mobile app configuration and push campaign information architecture", "width": 2440, "height": 771, "provider": "self-hosted" }, { "type": "image", "url": "https://samriticreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mobile-Push-Campaign-Prototype.png", "source": "content_image", "mime_type": "image/png", "title": "Mobile Push Campaign Prototype", "caption": "Prototype · desktop plus devices Audience to Message to Send on the left. Lock, banner, and in-app on the right. 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