Inject by Schoolab

Developed by Schoolab, Inject acts as a central hub. It enables program managers to unite their ecosystems, leverage expert coaching, and track success through a fully customizable interface.

Today, it provides a secure and data-driven approach to innovation for global institutions like L'Oréal, Renault Group, and UC Berkeley.

A complete UX overhaul & visual alignment

When Inject first joined Schoolab, I took over the product's design. The initial challenge was huge: the platform needed a complete UX revamp to handle complex workflows like corporate incubators and open innovation.

To fix the user experience, my early focus was:

1. Creating role-specific spaces: The platform serves very different audiences (managers, participants, and experts). We needed to clarify the architecture so each user type had a dedicated environment with only the tools they actually need.
2. Simplifying user journeys: We reworked heavy processes—like custom application forms and multi-step evaluations—to make them simple and intuitive.
3. Bridging the visual gap: We aligned Inject's interface with Schoolab's existing platform, "Inside", to create a unified suite of tools.

During this phase, I mapped out the core user journeys, redefined the information architecture, and set the new visual foundations.

Building a unified Design System

As the product grew, the goal expanded into making Inject a fully white-label SaaS for large corporations, which required extreme flexibility.

Aligning Inject with "Inside" was just the beginning. Since both platforms needed to be offered as white-label solutions, it led me to build a unified design system for all of Schoolab's tools: SL Product Language.

To answer these needs, I focused on a highly modular architecture:

• Theming & Design Tokens: I structured color variables, typography, and custom CSS so any client's branding could be applied effortlessly.
• Component Library: I designed the core elements needed for a heavy management tool, from dynamic dashboards to interactive newsfeeds.
• Responsive Layouts: I made sure every feature felt natural on both desktop and mobile.

As Inject continued to grow, the workload scaled with it. It was at this point that our team grew from a 3 people team (the CTO, a designer and a developper) into a larger team: bringing onboard a second designer, more developers, a customer success manager, and a data manager to support the product's next phase.

Bridging design and code together

Before tackling our next big features, we needed to solidify how design and development worked together.

After my design colleague set up a fresh Storybook environment, I started to cleanly integrating our UI components using our design tokens. By doing this, we finally linked design and development in a meaningful way.

Storybook became our single source of truth—a reliable way to deliver pixel-perfect designs to the developers while ensuring our white-label requirements were strictly respected.

Integrating AI

With a solid technical foundation we tackled one of our latest and most ambitious features: integrating "InjectAI".

Managing innovation programs involves handling a massive amount of data and content. Our goal as designers was to make these new AI features feel like natural extensions of the user's workflow, not just gimmicks:

• AskAI: An interface helping program managers effortlessly write impactful content like landing pages and emails.
• ChatAI: A conversational UI for administrators to instantly access platform insights, expert profiles, and project data.

A new marketing storefront

A great SaaS product also needs the right website to drive acquisition. Alongside my work on the core app, I was deeply involved in designing and optimizing Inject's new marketing website.

We built a Webflow site that reflects the platform's capabilities. Through custom illustrations and clear messaging, we created a site that clearly showcases the product's features.

Outcomes & impact

From a complete solo UX overhaul to building a robust Design System, and eventually scaling the product's data tracking and AI features with a multidisciplinary team, Inject has become a top-tier innovation management platform.

Today, it empowers programs at a global scale, meeting the highest European data protection standards (GDPR) and seamlessly connecting with over 8,000 tools.