Enterprise Search made Easy with Connected apps, Quick Actions and Custom Queries

Project Highlights

600+ Enterprise Sign-ups in 6 months

160+ Integrations Launched

146 engagements with 70+ customers

My Role

Design Lead, UX & Research

Team Members

PMs + Engineering: Jyoti, Jai, Atishay, Ramya, Mahesh, Keerti, Roshan, Anand, Ishan, Chetan and others
Leadership: Jeremy Grubaugh, Ram Poornalingam, Sushmitha Kini, Jayawant Tewari

Product Demo:

Problem Statement

Enterprise Search is complex and tedious. Information workers in medium to large organizations typically use several applications at a time. To find something, they have to search through tens of thousands of files, most of which are irrelevant to them, that often lead to unproductive results. Walls between teams, duplicates and shared files compound the challenge

What our Users Said

“It would be so nice if our tools and systems were integrated instead of having to navigate through different portals depending on what I needed...”

“Search has to have productivity integrated. It’s not just about finding, it should also be giving us direct actionability across other apps.”

Product Strategy

Integrate / commonly used apps into the Microsoft ecosystem

Open Source / Platform for developers to build more app integrations

Search In One Place / Enable enterprise admins to Customize Search and include third party apps

Design Strategy

Connected Search / Seamlessly browse through O365 and connected content

Custom Navigation and Scopes / Focus on what’s relevant

Action Oriented Search / Get stuff done right from the search page

The layout designer helps admins create custom search cards from easy to use templates that work for Office.com as well as connector scenarios.