Sonatype

I was the single UX Designer on the team tasked with redesigning pages on the my.sonatype website, along with internal client-facing pages for account holders. My role was to make the experience more user-friendly and accessible, and to streamline users' workflows and paths through the site.

The work covered the homepage, top navigation, and the Learn experience, including search results and learning resources organized by product or role. The redesign needed to bring frequently accessed information closer to the top of the homepage and let users refine learning resources without returning to the previous page.

I began with a card sorting exercise to inform the order of pages in the top navigation. The conversations that followed, together with analytics showing the most-accessed pages, helped clarify which information to promote near the top of the homepage.

I explored four low-fidelity homepage options. After feedback from my managers and the product design team, I combined elements from those options into high-fidelity wireframes and sent the designs and requirements to the front-end developers.

For the Learn page, I progressed from wireframes through two high-fidelity iterations, then designed search and filtering by product or role. Feedback from the customer education team led to side filters on the results pages so users could refine their selections without going back. I also created mobile versions of the role-filtered experience.

The design work included homepage explorations and high-fidelity designs handed off with requirements to front-end developers, plus Learn page iterations, search results, product and role filtering, and mobile layouts. The final filter designs incorporated customer education feedback directly into the results pages.