Equinix
Equinix specilizes in internet connection and related services. It is the leading colocation data center provider by market share and it operates 175+ data centers in 44 major metropolitan areas in 22 countries on five continents.
Overview
In 2016, Equinix decided to do redesign their core product and bring it in line with latest design trends and technology. In order to keep a consistency among all the user portals Equinix design team had to design and build a Design System which was a major goal for the redesign effort. This included - 1. Redesign UI and UX of the current Customer Portals. 2. Designing and Building Design System. 3. Redesigning Email templates and 4. Building custom UI components with animations.
My Contributions
• Engineered custom UI Components using React and Ant D library.
• Redesigned 'Internet Exchange Product' landing page using Sketch and coded using HTML and CSS.
• Researched and developed a UI Styleguide of patterns and components for Equinix Design System.
• Learned efficient implementation of UI components using LESS and React components.
• Build redesigned HTML/CSS email templates in DOT CMS.
• Tested cross browser and multiple device compatibility for the Equinix Customer Portal and Internet Exchange Portal.
• Collected feedback from active users to improve application performance.
Quick Facts
My Role:
UI Developer/Designer
I am currently collaborating with designers and engineers to make sure we are building right UI components. I work directly with Design Team lead to prioritize and build component library, get hi-res specs from Visual UI Designer to customize the UI Components and the engineers to fix UI Bugs and write efficient LESS code.
Time:
Aug. 2017 - Current
Stack:
HTML, LESS, Ant Design, ReactJS, JavaScript
Tools:
Sketch, Adobe CC, InVision
See the Pen Loading Animation (CSS SVG) by Rahul Patle (@rahulpatle101) on CodePen.