Jonelle Boyd
Sr. User Experience Designer
Pulumi Cloud
Description
Pulumi
2022
A huge goal that the Pulumi UX team accomplished 2022 was updating the Pulumi Cloud, formerly known at the time as the "Pulumi Service". The Pulumi Cloud is Pulumi's web app that's used in conjunction with developer's CLI (command-line interface) to manage deployment state and enable collaboration between developers.
Between its' poor navigation, which visually made it unclear to users where they were on the site or where a link would lead them, to the dashboard which serve no real purpose as it was being mostly ignored by the users, to the overall poorly designed UI, the Cloud app was in desperate need of an update.
The goal was to improve the overall user experience by making the site easier to navigate and help users get the proper information they need quicker by updating the site's dashboard. And while doing these things, updating the design of the site so that it's more aesthetically pleasing.