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Rebuilding Hyland’s help documentation

From static PDFs to an interactive, maintained docs site.

2025

Ray Butler, Lead Experience Designer for Hyland Software

Hyland’s product documentation lived as static PDFs you opened in the browser. I redesigned it into the interactive, maintained documentation site Hyland uses today.

The team wanted ideas that would boost impact. My answer was simple: start with the problem they had right then — the docs.

View the documentation site →

A scattered stack of paper documents resolving into organized cards and a bound manual

From a scattered stack to an organized, maintained system

The problem they had now

In 2025, the docs were static PDFs viewed in the browser. Not interactive, scattered, and often out of date — hell on wheels for internal teams and customers alike.

Nobody trusted them, so people worked around them — which made them drift further out of date. The fastest way to boost impact wasn’t a new feature. It was fixing the thing everyone already relied on and nobody could stand.

Where it came from

The approach grew out of experimenting with FlutterFlow, and a lot of time spent living in the docs myself. I’d been deep enough in them to feel exactly where they failed.

The result is the interactive documentation site Hyland uses today — the same one that hosts product docs like the OnBase Integration for Esri.

Start with the problem they have now.

The highest-impact fix is often already in front of you.

Let’s find the one underneath your system.