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Vegetation management

My contributions

Discovery

  • Personas
  • As Is and To Be User Journey
  • Lo-fidelity wireframing & prototyping
  • Prioritizing research
  • Scoping & T-shirt sizing
  • Competitive evaluation
  • Planning and facilitating collaborative workshops

Design

  • Mid/Hi-fidelity mockups
  • Prototyping
  • Usability testing
  • Design team and organization-wide reviews
  • Technical feasibility assessments

Delivery

  • Design audits and testing
  • Design pattern contributions
  • Collect & analyze feedback

Highlights

Vegetation managers can search, filter, and explore the map to understand the impacts of vegetation on their utility companies operations in order to mitigate potential outages before they happen. To make things as easy as possible, we provide a simple Vegetation score from A (Good) to D (Bad) indicating the level of trees or bushes encroaching power lines from pole to pole.  

Establish a visual context

Seeing is believing. Supplying a vegetation score and other attributes is important, but in order to gain trust in the accuracy of the system users have the ability to view the vegetation in relation to their assets on the map to get a clear explanation for why the vegetation score analytic was calculated. Additionally, having a visual context of the vegetation gives the vegetation manager a better idea if service requests or work orders need to be taken, e.g. trimming, in-person inspections, etc.

Flexible, simple data interpretation from the top down

Switch between a map and table view of the operation allows vegetation managers the ability to view the data how they want it.  

Taking action

After filtering by key values like Vegetation scores with poor or bad ratings, a vegetation manager would take action by exporting those areas so they can be brought into their asset management system so the work can be scheduled. In the future, there were many designs to directly integrate with those scheduling systems as well.