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Urban Pulse: Environmental Dashboard (Example)

A mobile-first dashboard that turns real-time air quality, noise, and traffic data into four daily glance cards residents actually check.

ClientConcept project
RoleProduct Designer
Year2024
Urban Pulse: Environmental Dashboard (Example)
Cut time-to-insight from ~40s to under 15s in usability testing
Consolidated 12 raw data sources into 4 daily glance cards
Validated with 30+ residents across two prototype rounds
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The problem

City environmental data already existed — air quality sensors, traffic feeds, noise monitors — but it was scattered across a dozen dashboards, none of them designed for a resident deciding whether to open a window or bike to work. The goal was to compress that into something glanceable.

Hand-drawn wireframe sketches exploring dashboard layouts

Process

Early sketches focused on a single question per card — not raw numbers, but "is this normal for today?" That framing came directly out of interviews, where residents kept translating numeric readings into their own good/bad heuristics anyway.

Sketching user goals and information architecture on paper

Outcome

The final dashboard shipped as a working prototype with four daily cards — weather, air quality, water quality, and traffic/noise — each reduced to a single normal/abnormal read plus one line of context.

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