Stu Barnett
Stu Barnett
Sr. Experience Designer

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Geospatial Climate Intelligence

Product Design UX/UI

 
 
 
 
 

Summary

As a Senior UX/UI Designer at PwC, I played an integral role in defining and designing the company’s Geospatial Climate Intelligence (GCI) product.

The GCI application combines advanced climate models developed by PhD scientists and the ArcGIS mapping platform to predict global weather patterns so analysts can identify client assets and investments that may be at financial risk from severe weather events like tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes.

Highlights of my work include:

1. Interviewing and gathering requirements from stakeholders and users.

2. Analyzing research and defining a dashboard UX framework that accounted for a wide variety of inputs, visualizations, and filtering capabilities.

3. Providing design direction for a PowerBI developer who put together a rough prototype using data pulled from ArcGIS.

4. Designing lo and hi-fi prototype iterations that led to a final UI design using PwC’s Appkit design system.

My work included: UX Research, UX, and UI Design.

Deliverables:

1. User interview analysis

3. Page structure definition

4. Lo and Hi-fi wireframes

5. Prototypes

6. Final UI design for dev handoff

7. Design QA of dev work

 
 
 
 

UX Research & Vision

 

Vision & personas

Research included user and stakeholder interviews, leading to user personals and a shared vision for the product.

 
 

Design structure ideation

Design research helped inspire functionality and design principles.

 
 

Rapid wireframe & Power BI data visualization studies

A rapid wireframing process allowed me to guide a Power BI developer and shape data presentation direction using dummy data sets.

Wireframe studies

 
 

PowerBI structure with map, charts, and heat maps all interacting with each other in real w/dummy data

 
 
 
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User interface design

The GCI application tested the limits of PwC’s design system and required variation and expansion to accommodate large data sets and accessibility compliance.

 

Application of PwC’s design system

Rough structure and content including the map, charts, filters and content was ultimately replaced, and PwC’s design system was applied.

 

PwC’s design system and fiinal content applied.