I was honored to spend 4 months consulting part time with multimer. Multimer is an EDWOSB-certified data analytics firm that spun out of MIT and is supported by the National Science Foundation. They specialize in providing spatial analysis of biometric device data to architects and urban planners.
They brought me on because they were expanding their dashboard to incorporate indoor data sets.
They wanted me to design a system on top of their current web interface that could support decision making for architects and urban planners and scale for multiple users. Doing research on what exists, talking to one of the indoor users they were piloting with and diving into power bi and data analytics dashboards I broke the needs down into 3 categories.
Utilization: what spaces are people using/occupying and when?
Feeling map: how do employees feel as they move through the space both in terms of location and time?
Room data: what is the temperature of the room, what are the decibel levels, and light conditions that could be influencing user experience in the space?
Knowing that there might be variation in need depending on the space and the user, ie an urban planner vs an architect, I also designed with buttons for adding and removing menus.