Eneco employee empowerment
Challenge
Eneco challenged me to design solutions using their brand guidelines. This gave me the challenge to find the thin line between a good but user tested UX and an appealing design according to the Eneco brand guidelines. While designing I had to manage stakeholder such as product owners, brand managers, project managers and the developers or analysts.
Eneco Roomfinder app
The RoomFinder app used by Eneco employees allows them to quickly find and book meeting rooms. The app has been build with Microsoft technology such as PowerApps and Common Data Model. The Eneco RoomFinder has been mentioned numerous times by Microsoft as an example on how to empower employees.
Search for an available room..
read up on the room and book it..
.. and done, the room has been reservered!
Step by stepMy design process
The projects I’ve worked on at Eneco all had a similar design process, which made it familiar process for the stakeholders and allowing for short design iterations. In my role I worked closely with the SCRUM team and a product owner from the Eneco business (such as HR, risk management, branding and so on).
- Design brief
- The first step was to create a design brief with design rationale. The briefing sets the “rules of engagement” and makes sure that everyone involved knows where we are heading.
- Sketching and concepting
- With all the insights and data from users and product owner in mind, I created sketches that showed multiple possibilities to the product owner. With this step, the product owner would be involved and inspired.
- User experience design
- At Eneco, all the sites and apps are built upon Microsoft technology. This gave the challenge to create a user experience that is feasable but still honored the design brief. During this step I involved the user board as much as possible.
- Visual design in quick iterations
- Finally, I worked closely with a user board and product owner to create the visual design. Testing the design and tweaking it till the product owner gave the final approval.
Awards & Recognition
My work at this client and the projects have been nominated and mentioned at the following occasions:
Dutch Interactive Awards 2017 nominee
Microsoft Inspire 2019 mentioned during presention by Microsoft