Hewlett-Packard Case Studies

Experience Design | CX Strategy | Enterprise Transformation

Over several years of collaboration with Hewlett-Packard through Deloitte Digital and independent engagements, I led and contributed to multiple initiatives that advanced HP’s design maturity, operational efficiency, and customer experience. These projects spanned enterprise service ecosystems, data visualization, and digital publishing — all unified by a shared goal: to make complex systems intuitive, measurable, and human.

What I did

What I did

Actions involved agile strategy, user story development, wireframe creation, design system matching, and utilizing an atomic design system.

Actions involved agile strategy, user story development, wireframe creation, design system matching, and utilizing an atomic design system.

Dimension

Magcloud Reader

ACT Dashboard

HP Care Pack

Focus

Mobile UX & Visual Design

Data Visualization & Design Systems

Global Partner Experience & CX Governance

Tim’s Role

Lead Interaction & Visual Designer

Design Thinking Facilitator / UX Lead

CX Strategist / UX Research Lead

Business Value

Enhanced brand engagement through immersive content

Unified marketing metrics, increased transparency

Reduced inefficiencies, improved satisfaction, protected revenue

Methodology

Human-Centered Design, Touch Interaction, Visual Systems

Workshop Facilitation, Rapid Wireframing, UX for Analytics

Journey Mapping, Service Design, Governance Frameworks

HP MagCloud Android Reader

About the project

HP’s MagCloud platform empowered publishers and readers to create and consume rich digital magazines. I led the UX and visual design of the Android Reader application, part of HP’s broader Android ecosystem.

About the project

Role: Lead UX/UI Designer
Engagement: HP Labs / Deloitte Digital
Focus: Touch UX Design, Mobile Interaction, Content Experience

Design Goals

Create a fluid, touch-optimized reading experience that made navigation intuitive and visual content central. Design adaptable interfaces for browsing, purchasing, and reading magazines. Translate print-like immersion into a digital, interactive medium.

Features & Approach

Features & Approach Interactive pagination and gesture-based navigation. Cross-platform visual consistency between WebOS and Android. Scalable layout systems supporting dynamic publication types.

Impact

Impact The MagCloud reader demonstrated HP’s forward-thinking approach to digital publishing — uniting design and content in a seamless touch experience. It also established early design patterns later seen in modern reading and news apps.

HP MagCloud Android Reader

About the project

HP’s MagCloud platform empowered publishers and readers to create and consume rich digital magazines. I led the UX and visual design of the Android Reader application, part of HP’s broader Android ecosystem.

About the project

Role: Lead UX/UI Designer
Engagement: HP Labs / Deloitte Digital
Focus: Touch UX Design, Mobile Interaction, Content Experience

Design Goals

Create a fluid, touch-optimized reading experience that made navigation intuitive and visual content central. Design adaptable interfaces for browsing, purchasing, and reading magazines. Translate print-like immersion into a digital, interactive medium.

Features & Approach

Features & Approach Interactive pagination and gesture-based navigation. Cross-platform visual consistency between WebOS and Android. Scalable layout systems supporting dynamic publication types.

Impact

Impact The MagCloud reader demonstrated HP’s forward-thinking approach to digital publishing — uniting design and content in a seamless touch experience. It also established early design patterns later seen in modern reading and news apps.

HP Care Pack Registration Experience

About the project

Role: Lead UX/UI Designer
Engagement: HP Labs / Deloitte Digital
Focus: Touch UX Design, Mobile Interaction, Content Experience

Overview

HP’s Care Pack business — warranty and service extensions for devices — represented a complex, decentralized ecosystem with region-specific processes, legacy systems, and high partner friction.


Deloitte engaged me to lead UX research and design recommendations for modernizing the end-to-end Care Pack registration experience.

Approach

Over eight weeks, I partnered with global HP leaders, resellers, and distributors to map partner journeys, interview stakeholders, and identify systemic pain points in registration and entitlement.


I helped visualize the cross-regional process landscape, revealing dependencies between ordering, assignment, and registration systems that were causing inefficiencies and revenue leakage.

Key Challenges Identified

  • No global governance across Care Pack registration and entitlement.

  • Manual, inconsistent partner workflows resulting in errors and delays.

  • Fragmented regional systems (CSN instability, inconsistent policies).

Recommendations & Strategy

  • Establish a Global Care Pack Governance Structure to unify standards and oversight.

  • Implement “Registration-as-a-Service” within HP’s CAMS platform for automation and scalability.

  • Reimagine the B2B delivery model for Care Packs — connecting partners, data, and operations into a seamless ecosystem.

Impact

The proposed roadmap not only improved registration accuracy and partner satisfaction but also directly tied to business growth —
reducing escalations, increasing renewals, and protecting revenue from duplication loss.
It became a template for HP’s service design maturity and partner enablement model.

What I did

Implemented a robust and versitile design system and version control

Role: Lead UX/UI Designer
Engagement: HP Labs / Deloitte Digital
Focus: Touch UX Design, Mobile Interaction, Content Experience

Approach

Through an immersive Design Thinking Workshop, I helped facilitate cross-functional collaboration between marketing leaders, data analysts, and regional teams.


Activities included persona development, journey mapping, and rapid wireframing to surface real business questions that the dashboard needed to answer.

What We Delivered

Persona-based data visualization models for campaign managers and BU leaders.

  • UX wireframes and navigation flows emphasizing clarity, context, and comparability.

  • Alignment of metrics and dimensions across HP’s CMO, BU, and campaign dashboards.

Outcome

The resulting framework enabled HP marketing teams to move from static reports to live, actionable insights, improving transparency and accountability across campaigns.
The ACT dashboard became the operational centerpiece of HP’s marketing analytics transformation — making data both visible and usable.

Reflection

Across these projects, I helped Hewlett-Packard translate business complexity into elegant, human-centered systems — from improving partner operations and internal measurement to reimagining digital content experiences.
Each initiative exemplifies a through-line of my work: connecting user empathy with measurable business transformation.

© 2024 Tim Aidlin. All rights reserved of their respective owners.
All brands, screens, and assets used by permission of owners. Some examples available during live review, on request.

© 2024 Tim Aidlin. All rights reserved of their respective owners.
All brands, screens, and assets used by permission of owners. Some examples available during live review, on request.

© 2024 Tim Aidlin and respective owners, used with permission.