How Didi’s “Orange Pile” Unified Mobile Platform Boosted Employee Productivity

Didi employees now handle daily tasks—building access, meeting‑room sign‑in, article reading, coffee payment, and emergency server approvals—through a single internal app called “Orange Pile”. A year ago these functions were scattered across many separate applications, known internally as the “Didi family bucket”.

01. Technical Research

The development team tackled fragmented codebases (native, H5, outsourced) by creating a dynamic plugin framework that supports both native and H5 modules, allowing legacy features to be integrated as seamless plugins without costly rewrites. Security was reinforced with company‑wide login mechanisms, secondary verification, and a native watermark algorithm based on frequency‑domain transformation to protect sensitive content from screenshots or photos.

02. Polishing User Experience

Focusing on employee productivity, the team added an employee search feature that syncs HR master data, enabling users to quickly find contact information, department, manager, and initiate calls directly from the app, dramatically improving daily workflow efficiency.

03. Co‑building the Ecosystem

“Orange Pile” serves as a company‑wide mobile entry point. By exposing a standardized API, any department can integrate its tools as tabs through the plugin framework, fostering an open and fair ecosystem. A centralized mobile approval center was also launched, offering simple API integration for systems such as the STAR platform, providing one‑stop approval experiences.

After six months, 85% of Didi staff have installed the app, with a daily active user rate of 25%, and more than 30 internal tools—covering IT, HR, administration, operations, testing, and project management—are now integrated, earning positive user feedback and high coverage.

Future iterations will continue to enhance experience, security, tool capabilities, and workflow automation, with planned features like VPN optimization, mobile device authentication, automatic tool recommendations, and customizable workflow approvals, positioning “Orange Pile” as an indispensable Swiss‑army‑knife for every Didi employee.