Stairwell
Securing the modern enterprise from cybersecurity threats. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Gradient Ventures.
My role
June 2021 - Present (current)
Joining during series A to lead design efforts to grow the platform to General Availability (GA). Currently I am focused on improving the ‘analyst experience’ for our enterprise costumers which include some Fortune 500 organizations.
MVP screenshots c.2020
The original designs mimicked some older Microsoft products with a unique mixture of light content with dark panels. While pulling in some interesting data, the app still felt baron. Much of our initial efforts pushed to start exposing more data in the platform.
1. Where we started
Stairwell was a little over a year old when I joined. The product was in an MVP state but we wanted to push towards a GA release to start selling to enterprise customers.
Initial dark mode designs c.2022 (gif)
Dark mode
The duality of the light and dark created some frustration in managing a split design system. So one of the first things I worked on was to simplify our design system and offer a true light or dark. During our user research, the analysts we talked to almost unanimously prefer dark mode so we opted to only support dark mode.
2. The product today
The team and I have made many strides towards filling out the platform with rich and complex data while trying to maintain relatively simplistic workflows.
Search workflow (gif)
Search workflow
Search provides near-instant access to millions of files across your corpus as well as global/shared environments and feeds. Through search a user can filter down to exactly what they want to see utilizing our advanced search queries. From there they can drill into the details on each file as well as pivot to other objects drilling further and further into the rabbit hole as analysts often do while hunting.
Hilbert curve workflow (gif)
Visual search workflow
Searching through lots of data can be tough, especially just as long lists of text. Utilizing this visual view, analysts can see similarities - or differences - between files very quickly.