Product Design Case Study

Keep.social

Adding social layers to high-traffic enterprise products, turning legacy isolation into scalable community engagement.

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Role

Product Designer

Timeline

2024 – 2025

Platforms

Mobile-first (iOS/Android) + Desktop

Focus

UX Strategy, Prototyping, Leadership Alignment

The Business Context

Navigating Legacy & Bureaucracy

Keep.social worked with large enterprise organizations, particularly in the sportsbook sector. Building modern features into these environments presented multiple hurdles:

  • Legacy Systems: Old-fashioned workflows deeply embedded in the business.
  • Low UX Maturity: Parts of the organization lacked a user-centric development culture.
  • Bureaucracy: Heavy silos and cross-team dependencies slowed down releases.

The Underlying Problem

Existing products handled millions of users but completely lacked a cohesive social interaction system. User value opportunities like community discussion and return behavior were under-leveraged. Product teams desperately needed reusable social patterns that could scale across multiple industries (from sportsbooks to retail prototypes like IKEA and Lindex).

Success required not just strong independent design execution, but significant stakeholder alignment and UX advocacy.

The Scope

End-to-End Execution

My role bridged strategy and delivery: taking abstract business objectives and turning them into implementable, polished UX.

1. Discover & Research

Understood behavior, technical constraints, and priorities. Ran quantitative and qualitative user research and synced with data analysts to pinpoint real user needs.

2. Map & Design

Defined high-impact social moments in the journey. Designed end-to-end interaction flows, created personas, and built patterns for feeds, reactions, and group chats.

3. Prototype

Rapidly built high-fidelity UI concepts and AI-assisted prototypes (mobile-first) to visually align stakeholders and show the potential impact.

4. Align & Lead

Communicated directly with the CEO and joined customer-facing sales discussions. Validated concepts early to mitigate risk and mentored global design teams.

5. Deliver

Handoff with implementation clarity and design consistency. Solved complex bureaucratic blocks without losing product momentum.

Cross-Functional Hub

Collaborating fluently with the Design Team, CEO, Head of Product, Data Analysts, and Engineers.

Outcomes

Meaningful Scale
& Adoption

We successfully delivered socialized product experiences centered on feed-like surfaces, group-chat patterns, and intuitive discovery.

These patterns were highly scalable and became reusable assets for enterprise prototypes beyond just the sportsbook vertical.

Why this demonstrates Seniority:

  • Owned the full lifecycle, stretching beyond just UI screens.
  • Operated fluidly between execution, strategy, and executive communication.
  • Delivered a robust design system that scaled past a single use-case.
Millions of Active Users

Social interaction reached meaningful scale across the initial product pilot.

[XX]% Retention Lift

Placeholder: Demonstrating increased product stickiness via social layers.

Scale Reusable Patterns

Social patterns rolled out to multiple enterprise prototypes.