VERONICA CLARKE
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Data science platform

Connect Cloud

Redesigning the experience, establishing a design system, and creating a more accessible, secure, and scalable platform for the data science community.

Open science.
Bigger possibilities.
1,000–2,000Early users
200+Initial access users
10+ yearsLegacy product context
1First in-house UX designer
The challenge

Bring a mature developer product into the cloud without losing what users valued.

Posit’s established on-prem product served R, Python, and Shiny users. Connect Cloud needed to make publishing, sharing, permissions, discovery, and multi-environment workflows easier for individuals and teams.

My role

As the first in-house UX designer, I led research and experience design while building foundational practices including office hours, accessibility, content simplification, and a design system.

Make powerful data-science workflows feel approachable.

Designing the foundation, not just the screens.

Work included onboarding, search research, empty states, homepage and content settings, magic links, sharing and permissions, OAuth documentation, and collaboration with customer-facing teams to keep design close to real user needs.