GeoFlow: Spatial Mining Appplication
Transforming the way data engineers interact with geospatial data
My Role
UX Design
Interaction Design
Timeline
Feb - Mar 2022
Project
UX Project @ Accenture
Background
A global mining company hired Accenture to help them create a new vision for the way their data engineers search and analyze geospatial files.
Approach
As part of the Design Team, I was the Lead UX Designer and focused on developing user interfaces through several rounds of wireframing and client feedback.
Outcome
The wireframe was socialized among the client’s data engineer team and leveraged to further refine interactions.
This initial design established key features to be developed in a fully functional MVP.
Data engineers spend ~2 hours a day sifting through files to find data for a new project
Challenge
Senior Data Engineers spend a lot of time aggregating, validating, and analyzing different types of data.
Today, it takes them roughly 400 clicks to locate files in different folders.
“I need to have a conversation with my data, not get lost in a maze of folders”
sample navigation interfaces for a GIS engineer starting a new project
Our goal was to design a spatial mapping application that allowed data engineers to quickly uncover valuable insights
Rapid Wireframing
I documented user stories and sketched ideas for interfaces that could help data engineers easily accomplish their task.
Based on the most critical tasks for the primary persona identified in the foundational research, I sketched several paper wireframes to rapidly generate many potential ideas.
Paper Sketches
I leveraged Figma to create low to medium fidelity digital wireframes to present in weekly UX readout sessions with the client.
Figma allowed me to create reusable design components to save time generating many iterations; and also enabled us to create click-through prototypes.
Prototyping on Figma
Based on several rounds of client feedback, we defined features that addressed key pain points
Features
Notification System
Current Pain Point:
There aren’t any integration systems to alert a data engineer about new data
Proposal:
Data engineers receive notifications for new data and sources relevant to areas of interest
Contextual Navigation
Current Pain Point:
Data engineers have minimal contextual information to locate or easily identify relevant files
Proposal:
Data floats with navigation, helping engineers keep track of data location
Search-based filtering
Current Pain Point:
Data engineers have limited filter capabilities, making it difficult to narrow down relevant files
Proposal:
Add multiple filters and use relevant tags and keywords to locate data and add to a “cart” to review later
