DEUNAN BERKELEY
Senior Content Designer / Senior UX Writer

UPGRADING UX TEXT
Microsoft Search within Microsoft 365 Main Admin Center
Audience: IT Administrators
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My Role: Lead UX Writer
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Challenge:
Update 55 settings to latest design and writing guidelines.
Solution:
Coordinated passes with design and dev to get approvals and rewrites in place.

Inherited user interface
This version of the setting was from a much older version of Microsoft 365. The team needed to port this to the new style and layout soon, and also had to move this to a different space in the product, and add more controls to it.
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Below is the first draft after the design switch.
BEFORE (UX PASS)

Before (UX Pass)
The initial screen was how it looked before the design switch. Now our team could put in the coh
Had to make changes in 24 variants in Figma, and get iterations back and forth between two countries.
AFTER

After
After checking usability, work flows, the feature's functionality, specifications, the style guides, content coherence guidelines, and the tracking deadlines, the new text was authored, iterated, and approved.