When HR asked me to help with their employee manual, there wasn't really a finished manual to begin with, just a heavily marked-up Word document buried under layers of edits.

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I cleaned up the content with HR and Legal, making policies easier to understand without losing the details that mattered. Then I redesigned the whole thing in Adobe InDesign, creating a clear structure, modern typography, and a visual identity that felt like SJSU and not a giant Word document. 

 

I even spent a Saturday on campus photographing the university to bring some warmth and personality to the pages.

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The result was a professional, easy-to-navigate handbook that employees could actually use and an editable set of Adobe files that HR could maintain long after I was done.