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Agriculture / B2B SaaS
UI consistency was the assignment. A shared institutional memory was the problem.
Oaken makes software that helps landowners track the leases, payments and documents tied to their land.
Oaken's best customers were checking every payment in a spreadsheet. A visual refresh would have polished the part they didn't trust.
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What came in
Design system inconsistencies across a growing product.
What didn't fit
The bigger issue wasn’t UI. It was how the product handled changing people, relationships, and data.
The proof
When one person’s operational memory disappeared for months, someone else could step in without losing the thread.
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