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Product (UX/UI) Designer2024

Northwind

An analytics dashboard for operations teams, redesigned around the decisions they make daily.

  • SaaS
  • Data Visualization
  • Web App
Northwind
−60%Time to insight
+22%Daily active use
−70%Missed anomalies

The challenge

The dashboard showed everything and prioritized nothing. Operators scanned twelve charts to answer one question, and important anomalies went unnoticed for hours.

Approach

  • 01Shadowed operators for two days to see which numbers actually drove action.
  • 02Designed a summary-first layout that surfaces exceptions before detail.
  • 03Introduced a consistent chart language — shared scales, colour, and emphasis.
  • 04Added state to the UI so critical values read at a glance, not by reading.

Outcome

Operators found the number they needed in seconds, and the new alerting surfaced issues while they were still small.