Stronghold Resource Partners
Stronghold Resource Partners is an investment manager, focused on energy and natural resources. I was hired, along with my former Pivotal team, to create and lead a product team that could offer strategic advantages to the organization.
Broadly speaking, I worked on a multitude of initiatives that were intended to facilitate transparency throughout the organization. I led the design effort by partnering closely with the product team to ensure we were building lean solutions that had a positive impact on users and contributed to company-wide initiatives.
Accomplishments
Created product principles
Led the design team
Facilitated workshops
Rapid concept generation
Partnered closely with product and dev
Influenced roadmap
Ran lean experiments
Disclaimer: Due to the nature of my contract with Stronghold, I’m unable to share the majority of my work. If you have general questions relating to process, I would be happy to provide as much high-level information as possible.
High level process
Product principles
It was really important to me to ensure that the product we were building was being built around unified principles. After a few months of user research and a long D&F period, I created these principles. They have evolved over the course of the engagement, but foundationally remain the same.
Optimized for multi-user workflows
One of the many challenges encountered was how to optimize workflows for users who needed access to different pieces of information and different times. We relied heavily on users to help us understand their current process as well as workarounds before we started iterating on solutions.
Don’t reinvent the wheel
In an effort to be lean and not take on too much design debt, we leveraged existing open-source design libraries. We initially started with Google’s Material Design but ultimately moved to IBM Carbon which had a lot for enterprise extendable patterns and components.