Workplace by Facebook

Scope

Brand development
Campaign design

Year

2017-2019

As part of the early design team for Workplace at Facebook, I helped develop the platform’s visual identity during its initial growth phase, working across product, marketing and sales to create a familiar and approachable brand experience.

Bringing Facebook into the workplace

The challenge was translating Facebook’s familiar visual language into a workplace environment while maintaining the sense of openness, connection and accessibility associated with the brand.

The visual direction

The identity was designed to feel instantly familiar to anyone who had used Facebook, while introducing a more considered tone for the workplace.

Photography, illustration, typography and messaging each played a different role, creating a visual language that could explain work without losing the openness and simplicity people already associated with Facebook.

Photography centred around real environments, human interaction and everyday moments at work.

Photography centred around real environments, human interaction and everyday moments at work.

Illustrations were used to simplify abstract ideas and introduce a more approachable layer across Workplace communication.
A flexible illustration style designed to support abstract concepts through simple, inclusive and universally recognisable characters

Illustrations were used to simplify abstract ideas and introduce a more approachable layer across Workplace communication.
A flexible illustration style designed to support abstract concepts through simple, inclusive and universally recognisable characters

Applying the brand

The work extended across launch campaigns, onboarding materials, presentations and marketing assets, adapting the identity for different audiences and workplace contexts.

Outcome

Outcome

The final direction helped Workplace feel familiar without looking like a consumer product, and created a recognisable presence across launch, onboarding, sales and marketing materials.

The final direction helped Workplace feel familiar without looking like a consumer product, and created a recognisable presence across launch, onboarding, sales and marketing materials.

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