PETER J. SHEPHERD
STYRA
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
Unified cloud authorization thru policy-as-code
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As the only UX Designer at Styra, I partnered with our CTO, PM and Devs to create designs for new and improved features.
Styra are the creators of Open Policy Agent (OPA), a CNCF graduated open source project with over a million downloads a week totaling ~90 million downloads since 2018.
I primarily worked on Styra's Declarative Authorization Service (DAS), a SaaS product aimed at DevOps and SecurityOps teams authoring and managing policies deployed with OPA into Kubernetes, Terraform, Envoy and Custom environments.
STYRA SAMPLES:
A POTPOURRI OF MY DESIGNS
It's been a lot of fun working on a diverse set of large impactful features and many small features during my 18 months at Styra.
Samples:
Styra/Slack Integration
Expanding Styra's User Base:
Styra DAS Free, Pro, Enterprise EditionsBroadening Policy Authoring - Policy Builder
Small Interaction Design Features​
Small Visual Design Features
BROADENING POLICY AUTHORING:
POLICY BUILDER
A 13 month journey from concept through delivery of Policy Builder, a tool that "uplevels" policy authoring for developers writing policies occasionally and less technical users.
Covers:
Styra background, Design/Dev process
My UX Principles
Current Policy Authoring experience
Collaborative Design iterations
2 User Studies I conducted