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Charting our Digital Design Team evolution: key milestones from 2011 to today
Marion Castel
Here, you'll find a chronological overview of our team's journey, highlighting significant milestones and initiatives. You can explore our progress by various topics or product lines, giving you a clear view of how we've grown and evolved over the years.
Key milestones from 2011 to today
Events (Highlight, Communication, HR)​
Thierry joined us
Catherine joined us
Emilie joined us
3 nominations to UX Design Awards
Win UX Design Awards for Intencity concept
Mat joined us
David and Marion 
joined us
Arnaud joined us
Designers 
in KNX and Innovation
1st Digital Design Team Seminar
Designer in Feller
Shannon joined us
Lauren joined us (UX strategy)
La Conf qui Tue Le Game event
“Designers are responsible for the user experience at SE”
Pierre 1st Product Manager for the design system joined us
Przemek joined officially as the 2d design ops
Design & ergonomics website is launched
Emilie’s visit to India
Jennifer joined us (UX/UI Leader)
Medium SE page is launched
1st User researcher SE employee (Romain)
Design Ops​
DD team community launch (Teams + DD Team Meetings)
New Design Career Path launch with the HR
New Team Onboarding Process
Vision / Mission / Key messages
Design Guild community and new teams rituals
Team rituals : 1st Design T REX, Design review and design critique
Coda ressource management tool
Coda Knowledge base / Single source of truth
Team directory is in coda
Design Key Metrics are prioritized
Metrics scorecard first concept is launched
Training plan and event attendance framework
2d Digital Design Seminar
Design Workflow Process is launched
Design System​
Quartz design system launched
Website prism team becomes the main contributor for Quartz open
Quartz beta version used with 1.5K instances over 54 teams in Figma
Quartz winner of the Design System Awards
Brand Expression on UI​
StruxureWare visual identity
UI guidelines PC/Tablet/mobile
EcoStruxure UI migration program
SE SW ecosystem assessment customer journeys
New desktop components style defined
EM EVP validation of visual direction for user interface
User validation of interface new direction
SE Data Days Talk / Dashboarding with Style Presentation
First version of centralized data visualization guidelines
Get removal of app name in header approved by global marketing
New D&E website solves 80% of pain points identified by user research.
Increase accessibility with 217% better contrast for primary brand color on light theme.
Get new EM EVP’s support on the interface direction.
Define foundations for Quartz open (design abstractions, token, architecture, automations)
Get UI branding guidelines approved by global marketing
Quality standards (accessibility, sustainability and user-centricity
Defined visual direction for illustrations on interfaces
50% of icons are redesigned and aligned to grid and visual style
100% of icons are redesigned and aligned
Digital Energy​
Initiated product discovery with Energy Hub Team
Commissioning “Next Gen”
Energy Hub in-application subscriptions
Energy Hub initial analytics design... get Google Analytics going
Started EH, EPC, Advisors, design critiques
PC mobile commissioning prototype and hackathon award
Digital Energy budget presentation to Manish
Advisor design milestone presenting vision for reporting
Innovation Squad workshop on Advisor Convergence – Identify key initiatives.
Home & Distribution​
First User Research
Agile Training
Agile Kick-Off
Get design VP and SVP support for Wiser vision concept
Prosumer Topic
Michael Lotfy's arrival
Stop of Wiser by SE
End 2 end customer XP
GOI connected offers
Space Logic
Matter POC
Bruno Capdordy
Incubation topic(s)
HMI​
Initiate HMi Guidelines and start to spread ideas around human factors with industrial design teams
Add a UI kit to EPD and initiate the building of a facet of DS
Orion’s launch
EcoCare​
DD started to work Ecocare business
2020
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Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2021
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2022
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2023
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Jul
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Oct
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2024
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Jul
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Sep
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2025
Jan
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May
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Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2026
Jan
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May
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Jul
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2027
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May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2028
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Catherine joined us
Emilie joined us
3 nominations to UX Design Awards
Win UX Design Awards for Intencity concept
Mat joined us
David and Marion 
joined us
Arnaud joined us
Designers 
in KNX and Innovation
1st Digital Design Team Seminar
Designer in Feller
Shannon joined us
Lauren joined us (UX strategy)
La Conf qui Tue Le Game event
“Designers are responsible for the user experience at SE”
Pierre 1st Product Manager for the design system joined us
Przemek joined officially as the 2d design ops
Design & ergonomics website is launched
Emilie’s visit to India
Jennifer joined us (UX/UI Leader)
Medium SE page is launched
1st User researcher SE employee (Romain)
DD team community launch (Teams + DD Team Meetings)
New Design Career Path launch with the HR
New Team Onboarding Process
Vision / Mission / Key messages
Design Guild community and new teams rituals
Team rituals : 1st Design T REX, Design review and design critique
Coda ressource management tool
Coda Knowledge base / Single source of truth
Team directory is in coda
Design Key Metrics are prioritized
Metrics scorecard first concept is launched
Training plan and event attendance framework
2d Digital Design Seminar
Design Workflow Process is launched
Website prism team becomes the main contributor for Quartz open
Quartz beta version used with 1.5K instances over 54 teams in Figma
Quartz winner of the Design System Awards
New desktop components style defined
EM EVP validation of visual direction for user interface
User validation of interface new direction
SE Data Days Talk / Dashboarding with Style Presentation
First version of centralized data visualization guidelines
Get removal of app name in header approved by global marketing
New D&E website solves 80% of pain points identified by user research.
Increase accessibility with 217% better contrast for primary brand color on light theme.
Get new EM EVP’s support on the interface direction.
Define foundations for Quartz open (design abstractions, token, architecture, automations)
Get UI branding guidelines approved by global marketing
Quality standards (accessibility, sustainability and user-centricity
Defined visual direction for illustrations on interfaces
50% of icons are redesigned and aligned to grid and visual style
100% of icons are redesigned and aligned
Initiated product discovery with Energy Hub Team
Commissioning “Next Gen”
Energy Hub in-application subscriptions
Energy Hub initial analytics design... get Google Analytics going
Started EH, EPC, Advisors, design critiques
PC mobile commissioning prototype and hackathon award
Digital Energy budget presentation to Manish
Advisor design milestone presenting vision for reporting
Innovation Squad workshop on Advisor Convergence – Identify key initiatives.
First User Research
Agile Training
Agile Kick-Off
Get design VP and SVP support for Wiser vision concept
Prosumer Topic
Michael Lotfy's arrival
Stop of Wiser by SE
End 2 end customer XP
GOI connected offers
Space Logic
Matter POC
Bruno Capdordy
Incubation topic(s)
Initiate HMi Guidelines and start to spread ideas around human factors with industrial design teams
Add a UI kit to EPD and initiate the building of a facet of DS
Orion’s launch
DD started to work Ecocare business
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