PLACEHOLDER: Smart Manager dashboard showing multi-pod overview with Labor, Reporting, Inventory, Sales, and Admin navigation
Quarterly resource planning showing designer allocation across epics and pods
Electronic communications framework architecture showing template structure and data flow patterns
5-Pod Coordination
Unified design leadership across Labor, Reporting, Inventory, Sales, and Admin product teams.
Cross-Product Frameworks
Built electronic communications, reporting, and navigation integration patterns.
Feature Architecture
Directly architected Sales and Inventory pod features from concept to specification.
Reporting framework showing data aggregation patterns across Labor, Inventory, and Sales
High-level navigation flows showing how different personas access reporting data
Decision tree framework for organizing system configurations across platform elements
The Process
As Lead UX Designer for Aloha Smart Manager, I coordinated design work across 5 independent product pods — Labor, Reporting, Inventory, Sales, and Admin — each with their own product managers, engineers, and roadmaps. The challenge was maintaining system-wide design coherence while each pod moved at its own pace.
I built three critical cross-product frameworks: electronic communications (pod-to-pod data exchange), reporting integration (multi-pod data aggregation), and cross-product navigation (context-preserving flows between pods). These frameworks became the foundation for all subsequent cross-pod features. Designing communication patterns across 5 product pods required understanding how each team's workflow language translated across boundaries.
Beyond coordination, I took direct ownership of feature architecture for the Sales and Inventory pods, including integration between Smart Manager's "Recipes" feature and Aloha Menu's sales items. The modular patterns I established enabled future pod additions without architectural rework.
PLACEHOLDER: Pod coordination diagram showing 5 pods with design alignment flows
Pod coordination diagram
PLACEHOLDER: Cross-product integration framework showing data flows between pods
Cross-product integration framework
PLACEHOLDER: Feature architecture for Sales and Inventory pod interconnections
Sales & Inventory feature architecture
Impact
Design Coordination
Cross-Product Integration
Design System Contributions