Terralytiq Decarbonization Platform

The Terralytiq Climate Technology Library was an early product concept for the company, intended to be used by the team’s Sustainability Analysts. At the moment, the tool existed as a highly complex Excel spreadsheet that constantly crashed. I was approached by the company’s COO to design the platform’s UX/UI.

Team: 1 Sustainability Expert, 1 Designer (me)
My Role: Team Design Workshop, Discovery User Research, UX/UI, User Testing
My Tools: Figma, Miro
Period: 2023

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Product Description

Terralytiq is on a mission to reduce one billion tons of CO2 emissions from industrial supply chains by 2030. Terralytiq’s value proposition is to help companies create fully customizable decarbonization roadmaps and develop actionable business cases with clear cost impact, investment needs, and carbon impact. The Climate Tech Library holds proprietary data from multiple materials, industries and processes and aims to provide Terralytiq’s Sustainability Analysts the tools to quickly create decarbonization models for clients and quickly quantify its impact.

The Climate Tech Library platform had three main features:

Carbon footprint assessment: Quantify emissions from energy use, transportation, and supply chain.
Data visualization: Present emissions data in charts and dashboards for easy tracking.
Scenario modeling: Simulate different strategies to assess their impact on emissions.

Design Workshops

To truly understand the needs and challenges of the current user, the Sustainability Analyst, I conducted three 60-minute team-wide design workshops where Terralytiq’s team and I co-created the user persona, current state journey and future state journey, and user storymap for the new product experience. The user persona and current state journey helped the team focus on the primary user’s needs and key opportunities for improvements, the future state journey helped establish a northstar 2-3 years into the future, and the user storymap helped identify the key features for MVP.

MVP V1

I designed and prototyped the first version of the MVP based on the workshop’s findings and conducted the first round of interviews with Sustainability Analysts to get their feedback.

User Testing and Feedback

I interviewed a total of 5 Sustainability Analysts and had them walk through the prototype. I took notes on the validations, challenges, and new ideas, and translated these into design implications/changes for the next iteration.

MVP V2

Based on the user feedback received, I created V2 of the MVP. Due to our agreed commitment, this was the latest version I designed for the team.

Current Product

Terralytiq continued developing the product with the help of another designer and they made a shift in the product’s audience from internal team member to B2B and external consultants. The latest platform’s demo is now available in their website.