Smart Metering App & Admin Portal (Nexus)
Built an admin portal and supported a smart metering app to streamline site, hardware, and user management. Focused on UX consistency, dashboards, and operational efficiency for operators and admins.
💥 Impact
Elevated the professionalism and polish of the product; ensured UX and design consistency despite ambiguous specifications.
✨ Highlights
Working directly with an external customer was rewarding, requiring flexibility, rapid iteration, and advocacy for good design. The back-office portal, while often unrecognised, became a critical component of the system.
📝 Details
- Back-office portal: style guide, consistent UI across the suite, UX refinements.
- Customer collaboration: iterative design process with prototypes and feedback.
- Smart Metering App: supported app design while focusing on the back-office portal.
- Database guidance: ensured correct NoSQL patterns for MongoDB.
- Polish & completion: filled gaps and refined minor details to deliver a finished product.
- Back-office functionality: site and hardware management (meters, loggers, hubs), user and provider management, site creation workflows.
🤝 Contributions
- Led the admin portal design and development, creating a style guide to ensure consistent UI across the software suite.
- Collaborated closely with the customer to refine UX, anticipating user needs and iterating rapidly on feedback.
- Advocated for proper MongoDB design, guiding the team to use NoSQL patterns effectively.
- Supported the smart metering app design while maintaining primary focus on admin portal development.
- Ensured the product felt complete and polished, filling gaps and refining details often left unfinished.
🗓️ Timeline
Development spanned multiple iterations, but the project was ultimately reallocated to a different team before release.
🧑🤝🧑 Team
Two-developer team, with customer providing direction for the app. Work was consultancy-style, with frequent iteration and feedback cycles.