03 · Case study

Advertising Specification Platform

A scalable source of truth connecting product behavior, UX placements, creative standards, translations, and launch readiness.

Opening idea

When every team interprets requirements differently, inconsistency becomes expensive.

Advertising products spanned multiple platforms, formats, behaviors, markets, and technical constraints. Advertisers, agencies, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Operations needed a reliable way to understand what could be built, how it should behave, and what assets were required.

My role

Information architecture

Organized complex product and creative requirements into a navigable system.

Content governance

Defined how specifications, updates, translations, and approvals were maintained.

Cross-functional alignment

Connected product behavior, UX intent, technical constraints, and advertiser needs.

Launch enablement

Supported Sales conversations, campaign readiness, and production quality.

Impact

What changed.

The platform improved consistency, reduced ambiguity, supported international expansion, and made complex advertising requirements easier to understand and execute.

A spec site is a design system.

It translates product intent into repeatable execution.

Clarity reduces rework.

Better information upstream prevents errors downstream.

Governance is part of UX.

A useful platform must stay accurate, current, and trusted.

Design for multiple audiences.

The same system must serve technical, creative, and business users.

Beyond the deliverable

The platform turned knowledge into infrastructure.

The most durable value was a trusted source of truth that made creative, product, technical, and commercial decisions easier to align.