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Cellect. Making energy storage readable at a glance.

A pioneer in energy storage brought me in to define the architecture and interactions of an app to monitor and control their batteries.

Year
2021 – 2023
Role
Lead UX Designer
Contribution
Information architecture, interaction design, market research
Tools
Miro, Figma
Cellect asset management dashboard with sites map and KPIs

Data shown is fictional. Real client data and some screens are omitted due to NDA restrictions.

Context

Batteries, business owners and the grid

Cellect needed an intuitive app to monitor energy storage performance and act on it with simple, clear actions.

The users. Business owners running large batteries in stores or community buildings, who want to cut costs by drawing from the grid off-peak.

The goal. Categorize the content, define the app architecture and design the interactions for dashboards and creation flows.

01 · Deliverable

Research into an unfamiliar industry

I analyzed Cellect's internal documentation, ran competitor analysis across direct rivals and adjacent industries, and interviewed key stakeholders.

What we learned: users preferred simple performance dashboards over action-heavy interfaces, desktop was still their main device, and clear KPIs were essential.

Competitor analysisStakeholder interviewsUser persona
Whiteboard session sketching the site card, states and content rules

02 · Deliverable

App architecture and prototype

I defined the content categories and navigation structure, then moved to wireframes and a fully interactive prototype.

The structure works across desktop and mobile, so monitoring feels the same wherever users check their sites.

Information architectureWireframesInteractive prototype
App architecture map: login, dashboard, main sections and settings

03 · Deliverable

Data visualization that people trust

I designed the dashboards, graphs and statistics, iterating with stakeholders until each KPI was represented accurately.

When the development approach needed a decision outside my expertise, I brought in a specialist and combined their input with my MVP experience.

Data visualizationKPIsDashboards

Result: Cellect planned its app from scratch in record time.

Cellect home dashboard on a laptop

Deliverables: low-fidelity and fully interactive prototype (UI was done in-house), data visualization definitions, user persona and research documentation.

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