Hi, I’m Elisa (rhymes with 🍕)













THE GOAL

To transform the data obscured in an overwhelming dashboard into insights an account executive can understand and share.













MY ROLE

Lead user research and design strategy

















ACTIVITIES

  • Process Mapping

  • User Research and Synthesis

  • Refine User Needs and Problem Statement

  • Define Design Drivers from User Needs

  • Lo-Fi Prototypes

  • Specify Data Visualizations and Interactions

  • Final Clickable Prototype



THE SOLUTION

A predictive analytics dashboard for non-technical users 
who need clear insights quickly




IMPACT


PROVIDED PRODUCTIVITY GAINS

Save expert analysis for only top 5% of data requests


Reduced time-to-insight from weeks to minutes







EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS

“This is so intuitive, it could become a tool we can show directly to clients to answer questions about high spend”


- CUSTOMER USER
CLOSED THE DEAL

6-figure predictive analytics deal

















PROCESS


THE PROBLEM

It took our customer weeks of work to deliver critical insights and recommendations to clients.

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Our customer manages large fleets of vehicles for utility companies and rail roads.

Their clients expect them to tell them when they should update their vehicles or identify patterns of issues within their fleet to reduce costs.

Our customer had ALL the data but it took weeks to turn that data into insights.




THE CAUSE

The existing tool was too advanced for their account executives.

They could not make sense of the data.


AE feedback:

“No clear action of what I’m supposed to do”

“I forget what each term means”

“It’s a great tool, but what is it telling me?”

“All the stats blur together”











THE STAKEHOLDER NEEDS

Account Executives need to make their clients happy


Analysts need access to all the data

Clients need to take action














THE REFINED PROBLEM STATEMENT

How might we enable Account Executives to deliver insights to customers independently and immediately?














DESIGN DRIVERS

We translated the user needs into design drivers.


































LO-FI PROTOTYPES

We created digital sketches to make the requirements real.



































CURATED KPIS AND VISUALIZATIONS

Every chart was precisely designed to highlight key metrics in an intelligible fashion.



































FINAL INTERACTION

Visual hierarchy, small graphics and tooltip interactions combined to make an intuitive tool for account executives.



























IMPACT


PROVIDED PRODUCTIVITY GAINS

Save expert analysis for only top 5% of data requests


Reduced time-to-insight from weeks to minutes

EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS

“This is so intuitive, it could become a tool we can show directly to clients to answer questions about high spend”


- ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
CLOSED THE DEAL

6-figure predictive 
analytics deal