Every department wanted the top of the intranet
Daily Dash was a prototype home page for Cox Enterprises corporate employees. SharePoint runs everything behind it: the documents, calendars, tasks, and team sites. HR, finance, and IT all wanted their banner up top, and employees tuned all of it out. I designed a custom front end that gives the page to the employee instead.
Daily Dash was for Cox Enterprises corporate staff only. Every department at headquarters wanted space on the same home page.
The employee runs the page
More than ten widgets, and each one collapses, pages, and has its own settings. Tasks, calendar, documents, and team sites come straight from SharePoint, so people work with their real data without opening SharePoint itself. There's a sticky note for scratch work, because that's how people actually used the page. Drive Time shows the commute home, because Atlanta traffic was the thing everyone checked before leaving.
Widgets built for how people worked
Two of the most-used widgets weren't in anyone's requirements. Sticky notes, because people kept scratch lists anyway. Drive time, because everyone at Atlanta headquarters checked traffic before leaving, so it shows the route home, incidents, and the drive time.
Your list, your links
The task list shows due dates in plain terms like "Now," "2 d," and "3 w," with a checkbox to clear each one. Essential links splits favorites you picked from team sites you belong to, so neither list buries the other.
Every widget can collapse, page, and be managed on its own.
Required notices are visibly locked instead of quietly overriding your settings.
Built for what people really did: scratch notes and checking traffic.
Favorites you picked and team sites you belong to, kept apart.
SharePoint as the back end, with a front end that doesn't look like SharePoint.
It was a prototype, and it became the inspiration for how Cox Enterprises could manage SharePoint: their documents, teams, and workflows.