Meetings are a fundamental part of how teams collaborate, yet many are frustratingly unproductive. Employees spend a significant portion of their workday in meetings, but too often, these sessions lack structure, focus, and clear takeaways—wasting valuable time and energy.

As a result, organizations suffer from misalignment, stalled decisions, and decreased productivity, while employees grow disengaged from endless, ineffective meetings.

Our team conducted extensive research, including diary studies, interviews, and observational studies across multiple companies. We analyzed meeting behaviors, pain points, and team dynamics to uncover what makes meetings effective.

These insights led us to define three key pillars of successful meeting facilitation: staying organized, maintaining focus, and emphasizing execution. We found that teams needed better ways to structure discussions, capture decisions, and ensure follow-through on action items.

The result was Noda, a platform designed to turn meetings into high-impact working sessions. With Noda, facilitators could create shared agendas, track decisions, and document key outcomes—all within a single, collaborative space.

I led user research, prototyping, and the end-to-end design of the platform. I designed core features such as collaborative note-taking, agenda management, decision tracking, and a centralized meeting directory—giving teams the structure they needed to run more effective, action-driven meetings.

By transforming how meetings are planned and executed, Noda helped teams maximize their time, reduce meeting fatigue, and drive real progress toward their goals.