Leading improvements to an established AAA interface late in production: strengthening consistency and readability without starting over, while preserving and improving an experience tailored to each platform.
I joined The Division Resurgence in May 2025, when the project was already well advanced. The major architectural decisions and most of the systems were in place. My role was to improve the experience by building on what was already there, rather than redefining the product.
With a five-person UX/UI team on a production of more than 100 people, I focused our work on interface consistency and making screens easier to understand.
This phase called for constant trade-offs between user benefit and development cost, with the risk of regression ever-present.
How can multiple designers rapidly improve dozens of screens when no shared design reference exists?
One of the first findings was the absence of a formalised, shared design system. Screens had evolved over the course of production, with multiple variants and undocumented conventions. That made every fix slower and increased the risk of creating new inconsistencies.
The game launched worldwide on mobile on 31 March 2026, then on Steam on 5 August 2026. The UX/UI improvements initiated after I joined were included in these releases.
My main contribution has been to bring coherence to what already existed: screens prioritised and reworked based on user impact, and a more structured approach to adapting the experience across mobile and PC.
