Citrix acquired a company named ScaleXtreme, a cloud based automation/monitoring and management solution for cloud and datacenter. A team was form to repurpose their technology and define a new user experience to focus on automation, management and monitoring of Citrix solutions.
My Role
Principal Designer working closely with PM and Engineering teams from defining initial concepts and use of the technology, define visuals and interactions for initial releases to lead a small team of designers, writer, researcher and front UI Dev. to help grow the solution to an array of micro services that help simplify Citrix environment monitoring and management.
ScaleXtreme Acquisition
The design team got involved since the moment Citrix acquired this technology. Their UI was cumbersome, outdated and confusing, since they had a wide set of capabilities and supported multiple technologies. See some examples of their UI at the moment of the acquisition.