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LinkedIn

Internal tools for the Workplace team: a homepage rebuild, a template, and an accessible newsletter.

The redesigned LinkedIn Workplace intranet homepage on a MacBook Pro, with three clear task entry points

The problem

The Workplace team ran on internal tooling nobody had designed.

The intranet gained pages faster than structure, so finding a routine answer meant knowing where it was filed. Presentations were rebuilt from scratch, because there was no branded starting point.

And the weekly digest was a Word document pasted into Outlook, which broke accessibility outright. Images failed to load, or loaded and distorted the layout.

Three surfaces, one shared cause: no system underneath any of them.

A wall of intranet page screenshots arranged as an audit grid, showing inconsistent layouts across dozens of pages
Discovery. Every existing page, laid out together, which is the fastest way to see that there is no pattern to inherit.

What I did

I started from site usage and accessibility, not from a redesign. The audit above made the real problem legible: the pages weren’t badly designed, they just didn’t agree with each other.

From there I mapped the flows people actually needed, then wireframed against them.

The layout went through design boards with executives and stakeholders. That mattered less for approval than for making the structure the team could keep extending after I left.

A user flow diagram branching intranet entry points into task-based paths
The flows worth optimizing for, before any layout existed.
Before
The previous intranet homepage, dense with links and a wall of office locations
Wireframe
A grayscale wireframe of the intranet homepage with three placeholder cards and a heading
After
The rebuilt homepage with three labeled task cards and a clear support path
The old homepage answered by listing everything. The wireframe stayed unstyled so review comments stayed about structure. The rebuild answers by naming the three things people came for.

Alongside the homepage, two smaller tools with the same logic.

A turnkey presentation template with brand fonts, drag-and-drop placeholders and preset text, so a staff deck starts from something correct instead of someone else’s old file.

And a newsletter rebuilt on the internal comms platform, usability-tested for accessibility rather than assumed to be accessible.

Presentation template cover slide with brand illustration and preset placeholder text
The template ships with instructions, which is the difference between a file people use and a file people ignore.
The delivered internal newsletter rendering correctly with article cards, images, and links
The digest, rendering correctly, which is the thing the Word-and-Outlook version could not reliably do.

Outcome

The Workplace Experience team still sends weekly digests on the pipeline I built.

The title was Graphic Designer. The scope was information architecture, accessibility and internal tooling, which is the part worth knowing.

The homepage structure and the template were built to be extended by the team, not maintained by me. That was the actual requirement.

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