OpenDesk

Help Desk for Shopify Businesses

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Product Design
Design Engineering
Customer Discovery
December 28, 2024

OpenDesk is an AI-assisted customer support tool designed for people who run an ecommerce business on Shopify.

OpenDesk Tickets PageOpenDesk Messages and AI ComposerOpenDesk Ticket ActionsOpenDesk Orders ListOpenDesk Automation SettingsOpenDesk Saved ViewsOpenDesk Channel NavigationOpenDesk Inline Attachments in Email ThreadOpenDesk Automated Response
Various features I designed and shipped for OpenDesk

I designed this product in code. I've been able to iterate and ship much faster than if I had been using Figma. My stack is Cursor, Shadcn, Tailwind, and Next.js + Vercel.

Role

Staff Product Designer and Design Engineer

Team

  • I'm the lead and only product designer on the team
  • I work with a product manager, six engineers, and a go to market team
  • Brand designers created the logo and brand identity

Timeline

2024–present

What I Did

  • Overhauled the product design and relaunched in under six weeks based on alpha user feedback
  • Conducted customer discovery interviews and used the jobs to be done framework to help define the product roadmap
  • Conducted user testing sessions to validate concepts and designs
  • Shipped code to production