details
year: 2018
platform: mac, windows
role: lead UX/UI designer
platform: mac, windows
role: lead UX/UI designer
GlobalMeet Desktop was an enterprise SaaS application designed to provide a seamless virtual meeting experiencewhile integrating essential productivity tools. It allowed users to launch GlobalMeet virtual meetings, manage daily agendas and tasks, engage in chat conversations, and conduct peer-to-peer audio and video calls—all from a unified desktop application.
objective
The goal was to design and develop a single desktop experience that could be deployed across both Mac and Windows environments, ensuring feature parity and a consistent user experience across platforms.
approach & methodology
• Conducted competitive analysis of Microsoft Teams and Slack to identify user flows, best practices, and areas for differentiation.
• Leveraged the design system I created for PGi’s desktop and web products to maintain consistency and efficiency in the design process.
• Designed and integrated new UI components into the design system when required, ensuring scalability and reuse across PGi’s ecosystem.
• Collaborated with another designer focused on user testing, using data-driven insights to refine interactions and usability.
• Partnered with iOS and Android lead designers to align the GlobalMeet Desktop experience with the mobile versions, maintaining a cohesive cross-platform user experience.
tools used
Sketch, Zeplin, Usertesting.com, Jira, Notion
impact & results
• Successfully launched three applications: GlobalMeet Desktop, GlobalMeet iOS, and GlobalMeet Android, each tailored to its respective platform while maintaining a consistent brand identity and user experience.
• Established GlobalMeet Desktop as a strong competitor to Microsoft Teams, offering a streamlined and intuitive alternative for PGi’s enterprise users.
• Enhanced PGi’s desktop & web design system, introducing new components and patterns that improved the efficiency of future product designs.
