Brandon Sztorc logoBrandon SztorcProduct Leader

Platform-Wide Transformation

OBX Redesign

From disconnected games to one connected platform.

I initiated and led a platform-wide redesign that transformed OwnersBox from a collection of disconnected game experiences into one cohesive product. Under an intense timeline, I aligned design, engineering, and leadership around a shared direction and delivered a consistent experience across web and mobile.

+7+24

NPS

65%89%

CSAT

At a Glance

Challenge
Outdated, inconsistent product experience
Approach
Hackathon-led platform redesign
My Role
Led vision, prioritization, and delivery
Impact
Launched in under 3 months, higher CSAT & NPS

The challenge

The platform had outgrown its experience

Salary Cap, Player Picks, and Spin & Draft had been developed at different stages of the company’s growth. Each used different navigation and interaction patterns, while web and mobile often behaved differently.

The fragmented experience made it difficult to move between games, manage entries, discover promotions, find scores and player information, and understand everything the platform offered. It also weakened users’ perception of the product’s overall quality.

Disconnected games

Each game carried its own navigation and interaction patterns.

Hard to find activity

Entries, promotions, scores, and player information were scattered.

Inconsistent quality

Web and mobile behaved like two separate products.

Creating momentum

One week. Three designers. One shared vision.

With a narrow window before the NFL season, I cleared the three-person design team’s workload for a focused one-week hackathon and gave them one mandate: define a cohesive experience for the entire OwnersBox platform.

The team moved from many initial concepts to three refined directions. One direction was selected as the foundation, with the strongest elements from the other concepts incorporated into the final experience.

Many initial concepts

Three refined concepts

One selected direction

From separate games to one connected platform

A new mental model for the entire product

We redesigned how users discovered, navigated, and managed their activity without changing the gameplay they already understood.

The new experience introduced a true platform homepage, global navigation, easier game switching, improved My Contests, centralized promotions, live scores, player profiles, global search, and a more consistent experience across web and mobile.

Much of the navigation was inspired by familiar patterns from products people use every day, including Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Android, and iOS. By building on behaviours users had already learned elsewhere, the new experience felt intuitive from the first interaction and required little education.

Before

After

Research and rapid prototyping

Validate early. Build with clarity.

Surveys, interviews, behavioural analysis, and controlled experiments created continuous feedback loops throughout the redesign.

I also used AI-assisted tools and Figma to prototype navigation, My Contests, player profiles, live scores, and the Salary Cap lobby across web and mobile. Rapid prototypes helped the team resolve ambiguity and evaluate workflows before committing engineering capacity.

  • Surveys & interviews
  • Rapid prototypes
  • Controlled experiments
  • Product decisions

Delivery

A fixed deadline. Daily tradeoffs.

Over an intense three-month delivery period, I coordinated nine engineers across backend, web, and mobile while keeping design, leadership, and other stakeholders aligned.

I owned the requirements, roadmap, priorities, scope, and day-to-day coordination across parallel workstreams. Continuous communication, risk management, and fast decision-making kept the program moving toward a fixed NFL deadline.

Early June

Kickoff

Mid July

Iterate & build

Late August

Launch

NFL kickoff

Fixed deadline

The result

A cohesive platform, delivered before kickoff

In under three months, we launched the redesigned OwnersBox experience across web and mobile.

Following launch:

+7+24

NPS

65%89%

CSAT

Built to evolve

A foundation the company could build on

The redesign established reusable components, a shared Figma library, and documented standards that became the foundation for subsequent products and features.

It did more than refresh the interface. It transformed OwnersBox from a collection of individually designed games into a platform the company could extend more consistently.

Shared component library

Consistent products