An intranet built for Seinfra (Secretariat of Infrastructure, Mobility, and Partnerships, in Minas Gerais, Brazil), based on research conducted jointly by the IT and Communications teams.
Role
Solo — design and development
Timeline
3 weeks
Client
Seinfra (Minas Gerais State Government)
Build in
SharePoint
The problem
The Secretariat's existing intranet, built on SharePoint, was essentially a compiled folder structure — navigable only if you already knew exactly where what you needed was located. Everyday services were scattered across separate links employees had to remember individually, and Secretariat updates that people cared about lived only on social media, invisible internally.
Why it changed
These were long-standing complaints from employees, and they're what triggered the restructuring. Research conducted jointly by the IT and Communications teams confirmed what needed fixing and helped shape what each department actually needed to see, rather than just surfacing every file that existed.
What I did
I designed and built the new navigation and visual identity from the ground up, working within SharePoint's real design constraints. The new structure consolidated scattered services into a single, findable place, and gave Secretariat updates a proper home inside the intranet instead of only on social media.
UI in Portuguese (original language).
IT reported a smoother flow of demands, since employees now knew exactly where to submit requests. HR gained a way to reach individual teams directly, instead of sending documents to everyone at once. Communications introduced request forms for design pieces, campaigns, and content, a process that didn't exist before.