Laptop on a wooden desk displaying a website for an app store, with search results for backup-related apps.
Laptop on a wooden desk displaying a website for an app store, with search results for backup-related apps.

Add-On Store

AppDirect — SaaS integration marketplace

Designed and improved a marketplace experience enabling customers to discover and evaluate third-party solutions that extend platform functionality, improving product discoverability and decision-making across the AppDirect ecosystem.

Role

Lead Product Designer

Focus

UX Strategy · Information Architecture · Journey Design · Research · Interaction Design · Stakeholder Collaboration

Impact

Improved solution discoverability and strengthened decision-making through enhanced content structure and evaluation pathways.

A collage of interior design and architecture photos with color palettes, icons, and description text about solutions that complement the AppDirect platform.

Opportunity

AppDirect’s Add-On Store enables customers to extend marketplace functionality through third-party solutions and integrations. The goal was to improve discoverability, education, and decision-making for customers evaluating partner products.

Experience design

Designed new educational and decision-support experiences, including solution comparison pathways, customer success stories, and “How It Works” content to help customers make more informed purchasing decisions beyond feature comparisons alone.

Iterated on UI/UX designs based on customer feedback, stakeholder input, and evidence-based decision-making, advocating for user-centered solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

A series of website wireframes for a software product, showing multiple pages including homepage, solutions, partners, and solutions filter.

Strategy & discovery

As lead designer and key stakeholder, collaborated with Product Marketing to define project objectives, audience needs, and value propositions across multiple customer segments. Helped shape the site architecture and user journeys to better support solution discovery and evaluation.

Led and participated in customer interviews, helping develop research questions and synthesizing findings into actionable design and content recommendations.

Execution & delivery

Owned the visual design and end-to-end UX execution of the experience, ensuring alignment with product goals, brand standards, and responsive design requirements. Established QA processes and implementation standards to deliver a polished, high-quality customer experience.

Screenshot of AppDirect's website promoting their platform extension and partner solutions. It shows sections on how it works, solutions for business objectives, customer success stories, popular products like BlueSnap, Salesforce, G2, and WalkMe, and a partner spotlight on Coveo and Attune.
Screenshots of a website and a digital platform related to payments, app development, and personalized search and recommendations for business analytics.
Screenshots of a website and a digital platform related to payments, app development, and personalized search and recommendations for business analytics.