How a Panel Redesign Helped Sales and Customer Success Teams Avoid Critical Setup Errors
I redesigned a complex admin tool used daily by Sales and Customer Success teams to configure enterprise client settings. The legacy system made critical errors easy. I rebuilt it around clarity, feedback, and safer workflows, reducing support needs and user stress.
MY ROLE ON THE PROJECT
I led product design from early discovery to launch.
I worked closely with Product, Sales, CSM, and Data teams to:
Clarify the problem we were solving
Map how sales reps actually worked
Define what “good” recommendations looked like
Design the end-to-end experience
I owned the UX strategy, interaction design, and prototyping.
Problem
A tool used daily for enterprise setup was becoming a liability.
Sales and Success teams used the Enterprise Panel to configure accounts, assign licenses, and turn features on and off. But the interface had grown unclear and risky.
People weren’t sure what actions would do, and one wrong click could block content access or misassign a license pool for a client.
Controls were scattered around and hidden under obscure tab labels, there was no preview, no confirmation, and no clear structure. As a result Confidence was low, and mistakes were common.
BEFORE THE REDESIGN
Business complexity was rising fast:
Legacy clients, exceptions, and contract-specific setups all needed to coexist.
Meanwhile, new CSMs needed to configure accounts on day one, but had no documentation or structured guidance. Every action felt potentially destructive, and risky.
What I found (through interviews & task-based observation)
New users were unsure what they were even allowed to do.
They didn’t know which toggles mattered, what license models meant, or whether clicking a button would break something.
Experienced users relied on workarounds.
Even power users avoided parts of the interface and trained new hires to proceed with caution.
Learning the panel took weeks or even months.
There was no structured onboarding, and much of the tool required institutional knowledge to use correctly.
How might we make internal setups feel safer and more predictable in a changing system?
I approached this by first mapping out what made the current experience risky. Through interviews and live task observation with both new and experienced users, I uncovered a pattern: people weren’t confused by the number of features—they were afraid of making a mistake.
Some users didn’t know what they were allowed to do. Others didn’t trust what would happen when they clicked a button. And almost everyone relied on memory, peer support, or workarounds like Ctrl+F to get through critical tasks.
From there, I restructured the panel to reduce ambiguity and surface consequences early, without slowing down the workflow too much. The redesign focused on three things:
Legacy clients support
To ensure legacy clients who joined under an all-you-can-eat contract felt supported during the pricing redesign, we designed flexible, custom feature-panel settings that allow plans to be upgraded or downgraded at any time as needs evolve.
Early outcome
The redesign has only been live for a few months, but early signs point to meaningful improvements:
Fewer support tickets are tied to misconfigurations.
Early tracking suggests a ~15% drop in error-related tickets linked to setup mistakes. A promising sign that the new structure and clearer UI are reducing confusion and risk.
These early outcomes suggest the redesign is not just more usable: it’s starting to build trust, reduce support needs, and prevent setup errors.
“I don’t feel like I need to double-check every click anymore — it’s more intuitive now.”
New CSM (informal post-launch feedback)
What I Learned
Internal tools often suffer from a lack of design ownership, even when the stakes are high.
This project reinforced how important it is to:
Design for ambiguity, not just for edge cases
Make mental models visible in the UI
Balance speed with safety in internal tools
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