RELAY Collaborative Design Platform

Owned design and product strategy for whiteboard and asset management modules

Overview

RELAY is an in-house design collaboration platform built by JD Retail’s Platform Business Center to support cross-functional teams and streamline end-to-end experience design. The platform is cloud-based and built for designers, offering a single hub for managing design files and driving collaboration across the entire workflow—from ideation to handoff. Core capabilities include whiteboarding, design asset storage and sharing, real-time collaboration, developer handoff, and QA issue tracking. By centralizing these workflows, RELAY helps teams reduce overhead, improve alignment, and accelerate delivery.


As both product designer and product manager for the Whiteboard and Design Asset Management modules, I owned the end-to-end design and delivery of these features, working closely with engineering and product peers. I also provided UX design support for other modules to ensure consistency and a user-centered experience across the platform.

Team

Lead UX Designer

PM + UX Designer

UI Designers

Skills

  • End-to-end product design

  • Feature definition & prioritization

My contribution

PM + Design lead for the Ideation & Design Asset Management modules

Timeline

2020 Q1 - 2021 Q1

Module

In-house Tool

Tools

Figma,

Sketch

Project Background

As-Is

To-Be

Vision

Fragmented file storage with limited collaboration efficiency

Centralized file hub enabling seamless collaboration

Unified file creation and storage within a secure, in-house platform

In-house

Design team

Local file-based ideation & Design Files

Design asset plugin (Sketch)

Cloud-based draft management

In-house

Design team

In-house

Design team

RELAY In-House Design Platform

Design draft management & collaboration hub

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RELAY Sketch & Figma Sync

Seamless product-research integration

Ideation

Collaborative Whiteboard

Flowchart

Sticky Note

Artboard to Slides

Design Asset Library Plugin

Design Execution

Quick Access to Images, Components, and Icons

Image Fill

Text Fill

Design-to-Dev Handoff

Handoff

Commenting & Feedback

Specs & Asset Export

Frontend Code Snippets

Design-to-Code QA

Design QA

Visual Compare: Design vs. Build

Pinned Comments on Live Pages

Integrated Issue Tracking

Store, Share & Reuse Design Assets

Design Asset Management

Design System

UI Assets & Marketing Templates

Icons, IconFonts & Code Packages

Current Version and Trial

Related Projects

Contact Me

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annyjialuli01@gmail.com

(+1) 778-697-4718 Canada

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