A feature I designed at Beezy, a modern intranet platform. Two weeks, one clear problem: Users had to download files just to read them. Then switch windows to comment. Then switch back. It was the kind of friction that adds up quietly until everyone just stops engaging.
The idea
A modal that lets you view anything — documents, images, videos, PDFs — without leaving the page. Comment in real time, react, flip through attachments. Stay in the flow.
Theater Mode on desktop
What I designed
Distraction-free mode. Hide the comments panel, full screen, just you and the content. Content thumbnails. A horizontal scroll of everything attached, so you always know what's there and can jump between files without hunting. Side-by-side comments. Content on the left, conversation on the right. No context switching. One modal, every file type. Images, docs, videos, PDFs, all handled the same way.
What I learned
Two weeks is not a lot of time. You get very good at cutting scope quickly. The features that made it in were the ones that solved the actual problem, everything else waited.
