The Short Version
At Orange, I worked on the SharePoint intranet for the B2B division within the Operational Marketing team. Together, we built site pages, page templates, collaborative workspaces, visuals, and information architectures from the ground up. My personal focus was the Public Sector sales department, where I designed their homepage for their largest purchasing groups. This required collaborating with account managers, department heads, and various other stakeholders to produce a visual hierarchy that was simple, clean, and efficient. Beyond the build itself, I supported employees in adopting the intranet through user onboarding and first-level technical assistance, gathering feedback along the way to propose continuous improvements. Working within a nationally deployed tool supporting Orange's B2B commercial transformation gave every design decision real organizational stakes. By the end, our intranet served thousands of employees across more than a dozen national departments throughout the country.
What we chose and why
SharePoint gives you a grid you cannot adjust, padding you cannot change, typography you cannot customise, and responsive design that is essentially non-existent. Orange's brand system narrowed our options further, and stakeholder management added a layer of negotiation to every single decision. Even our design tools were chosen for us — because visuals needed to stay editable by managers and team members without design backgrounds, industry-standard tools like Adobe Suite and Figma were off the table. PowerPoint and Canva became our production environment, which meant applying real design thinking inside software that was never built for it. Honestly, that is its own skill set.
None of that is unusual in a corporate environment — but it does confirm that great work is born from creativity within constraints, not freedom from them. We built an intranet that was visually engaging and genuinely useful, which is considerably harder than it sounds on that platform. Along the way, the quality of what we produced shifted the dynamic entirely — stakeholders who had been passive became invested, and the department started treating UX research as something worth showing up for. The project became truly iterative, demanding constant adjustment, realignment, and a willingness to keep improving even when something already looked done.
Results
Version 1.0 launched in April 2025 to the national office and by October 2025, Version 2.0 had rolled out across France and the DROM territories, reaching thousands of employees across one of the country's largest employers, with over 71,000 people working at Orange in France alone. The intranet streamlined internal communications, significantly reduced the volume of team messages and emails, and brought real order to file storage and retrieval. Beyond the platform itself, the team ran workshops to standardize usage and brief department heads on both the capabilities and the limitations of SharePoint. Most satisfyingly, the project's momentum shifted the culture around it. As the value of the intranet became apparent, stakeholders who had been on the fence became advocates, and the department started treating it with the seriousness it deserved.
Notes to Future Me
Stepping into a corporate environment and a professional web development context for the first time was a steep but rewarding learning curve. The most important lesson I took away was the value of design confidence such as trusting my decisions, defending them clearly, and not waiting for permission to move forward. On my personal project, the Centrales d'Achat, the feedback from stakeholders came later than ideal, which taught me early that in a corporate setting, driving the process forward is as much the designer's responsibility as the design itself. I also played it safe with certain creative choices out of respect for the brand charter — which I understand, but looking back, I would have pushed the boundaries further. There was more room to create something genuinely distinctive than I initially allowed myself to explore.
