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Case Study · Cox Enterprises · 2011

Every department wanted the top of the intranet

Daily Dash was a prototype home page for Cox Enterprises corporate employees. SharePoint runs everything behind it: the documents, calendars, tasks, and team sites. HR, finance, and IT all wanted their banner up top, and employees tuned all of it out. I designed a custom front end that gives the page to the employee instead.

Client
Cox Enterprises
Role
UX lead at Slalom. Research, comps, and production design on a cross-functional team.
Work
Research, Design, Front-end development
daily dash

A full page, with eight of the widgets open.

01 · The Problem

Daily Dash was for Cox Enterprises corporate staff only. Every department at headquarters wanted space on the same home page.

  • HR wanted benefits enrollment seen. Finance wanted expenses approved. IT wanted outage notices read.
  • Every request turned into another banner.
  • Employees learned to skip the page entirely.
  • Notification settings let you turn things off, then sent them anyway.
02 · Key Screens
sticky notes + drive timeA note with real formatting, and the commute home with an incident on I-285.
task list + essential linksTasks pulled from SharePoint, and links on two tabs.
03 · What Happened

It was a prototype, and it became the inspiration for how Cox Enterprises could manage SharePoint: their documents, teams, and workflows.