We will be releasing the update of the experience in Amazon Search shortly. Until then you will need to enter a password to see the portfolio of Amazon work.

Much of the incredible work being done in Data Platform is still undisclosed, however, in the last year we have had several great releases. We work within the Azure Portal, and our best work is occurring in the "Ibiza" framework which we are helping to evolve. Below is a small sample of them. Most are screenshots of shipped product.

Where is the rest?!

Sorry, but unless you work at Microsoft, there is only so much I can show you. Our processes and projects are, shhh, top secret. We have new features coming, large and small, development and administrative it was a very exciting year for us in Data Platform.

SQL Azure

Getting Started

Role: UX Director, designer
Designer: Kaivalya Hanswadkar, Bevin Perrin

Auditing

Single click defaults to turn on complex and multi-standards compliant auditing scenarios. Developed internationally with the ILDC development team (Isreal)

Role: UX Director, designer, functional designer, prototyper
Designers: Bevin Perrin, Miguel Solorio

GeoDR

SQL Server 14 is infamous for being the hardest to set up disaster recovery in the industry. Our goal was to make SQL Azure the simplest in the industry. Offering unparalleled ease of use for the complex process of establishing multiple geo-redundant databases. Setting up an original database, and two geo-redundant pairs took 5 minutes with enough time left over for changing the Azure theme

Check out the video produced by my team to see how this feature works in action.

Role: UX Director, designer, functional designer
Designers: Kaivalya Hanswadkar, Miguel Solorio, Josh Keckley
Video Produced and Directed by DPX, Rick Hudson - Voice

DocumentDB

Microsoft's new Json database is an incubation gone good. Integrated from the beginning, user experience is part of the teams expectations. 

Role: UX Director, designer, research coordinator (language)
Designer: Josh Keckley

HDInsight

Big data is a tough space to learn in. We created a getting started and dashboard experiences for Hadoop that help jumpstart our customers.

Project Xs

Man I wish I could show you this stuff. We are currently designing even more amazing work for DocumentDB, SQL IaaS and Azure Search not to mention projects I'm not allowed to name. But as they release, I'll be sure to update these pages so you can keep aware of what is happening in Data Platform.

When I started designing CRM, the concept of emotional connection to software was foreign. When I said that our customers will "LOVE" our software in an executive review, the room laughed as if I was joking. Within a year the tenor had changed and connecting with our software mattered. 

The video below was the first public announcement of our software product code named MoCA.

Role: UX Manager, production advisory, designer
This video was professionally produced, unfortunately I've forgotten the company.

Though antiquated, these before screens inadequately tell how hard to use the software was. So I created a video of the most common process the app was used for. We reduced overall complexity by 80% for the most used scenarios.

Orion Release

A re-imagining of the CRM Web Client started with the forms in Polaris and moved on to overall system with Orion. This new release was created to be fast, fluid and responsive. Created by the full design team across three geographical locations: India, Redmond and Zurich.

Role: UX Manager, designer, researcher, information architecture, project management
Designers: Monil Dalal, Ted Cyrek, Wayne Higgins, Naveen Sethia, Anastasia Paushkina
Image Creation: Monil Dalal

Role: UX Manager, project management, information architecture, designer
Designers: Ana Paushkina, Monil Dalal, Naveen Sethia, Ted Cyrek, Wayne Higgins
Research: Mary LaLomia

MoCA 

The CRM Mobile Companion App, available in the Windows app store here and Apple here, was the first business application designed for the Metro design language and was featured in the Windows 8 release event.

As Designed
Role: UX Manager, interaction design, ideation, control design
Designer: Ana Paushkina

As shipped.

Phone apps

Dynamics CRM was one of the first platform agnostic software offerings from Microsoft, we did it before it was cool. Mobile Apps for all devices, including Blackberry.

Role: UX Manager, device acquisition and lab management
Designer: Ted Cyrek

Dynamics CRM Windows Phone Application

Our first mobile application was built for the Windows Phone.

Role: UX Manager, designer
Designer: Ana Paushkina

Marketing Pilot

Acquisition implementation and redesign, partly re-envisioning, partly reinvention. Marketing Pilot was a full featured application with an established user base. The application was as difficult to use as the original CRM.

Role: UX Manger, information architecture, functional design, ideation
Designer: Ted Cyrek, Wayne Higgins, Manisha Powar

Net Breeze

Acquisition implementation and redesign. 

Role: UX Manager, information architecture, functional design
Designers: Tomas Brader, Ted Cyrek, Wayne Higgins

Some of my older work.

Microsoft Access 2010

Goals included a more sophisticated editor that felt more like "coding" while maintaining the high security environment and data integrity of our macro language.

Collaboration Credit: Art Leonard

Microsoft Access 2007

Recreating the grand-dame of desktop databases, love it or hate it, is a challenge not for the feint of heart. Many features we created needed to take into account over 15 years of feature development and a large and vocal user base.  

The Dynamics CRM 2013 product, available in the cloud delivers a cleaner, more usable UI, simplified data entry, an integrated business process workflow, consistent experiences across devices, integration of Yammer, and more.
– Kate Leggett, Forrester Analyst

“It’s clear that this is a much cleaner, less cluttered layout that'll make CRM user experience even more positive!”
– Preact.co.uk 

“The user interface for building macro steps is very intuitive”
-Database Journal October 4, 2010

“Access 2007 constitutes a major overhaul of the ageing database app, adding significant new features and streamlining the interface …. The upshot is that working in the less congested new interface is much easier and more enjoyable.”
– PC Advisor January 30, 2007