Matthew A. Bretz

Frontend Engineer and UX Designer
Contact Me:
matthew.a.bretz@gmail.com

Case Study:Edward Jones Digital Transformation Interactive Timeline Prototype

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Stack: Sketch | React | TypeScript | styled-components | Framer Motion

The Edward Jones Internal Communications department requested a SharePoint intranet site to help inform the company's employees of the many work streams, programs, and initiatives scheduled or underway at the firm relating to a $500M technology investment and other modernization efforts. The centerpiece of this site was to be the "Roadmap" section, which would collect all of these items in a single experience to provide a holistic view of the firm's transformational changes.

While serving as Design and UX lead for this site, I created an interactive timeline application prototype based off of components from our in-house design system Sketch UI toolkit and the semantic color-and-iconography pairs established in the overarching internal Digital Transformation campaign. I built the prototype in React and TypeScript, and leveraged styled-components for styling and the Framer Motion library for animations.

The original prototype of the interactive timeline view.

Following enthusiastic responses to a series of demos to stakeholders and select site users, I worked with UX and Visual Designers from our SharePoint implementation partner, RightPoint, as they endeavored to tailor the design to fit within established SharePoint conventions and technical restraints.