Arena PLM needed a fresh coat of paint. When it was originally designed, the restricted palette of web-safe colors was the order of the day, but times changed, and the old colors became hard on the eyes. So for the spring release of Arena PLM, we revamped the color scheme and made various other design enhancements to aid readability.

While this may not seem like much at first glance, Arena PLM is not a typical web app. It is very much an enterprise application, with hundreds of pages, so this was a sizable undertaking.

I also owe a huge debt of thanks for much of this to Marc Escobosa, who supervised and collaborated with me on the project, providing tons of great ideas and valuable feedback.