User experience for the electrical grid
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Anders brings a broad creative toolkit and a natural curiosity that drives him to explore new methods and challenge conventions. He’s an exceptional sparring partner with a rare ability to turn technical complexity and chaotic ideas into clear, value-creating solutions.
At Oktogrid, he led design projects, ensuring high visual quality and fostering collaboration between technology and user experience. As Product Design Lead, he played a key role in shaping our core products and in how design supported company growth and market differentiation. - Golam Sadeghnia, CEO Oktogrid
Key contributions
End to end responsibility
Mapping grid operators workflow and daily activities
Personas based on interviews and insights from the mapping process
Ideation workshops to explore ideas and align the team
Brand identity, design system, mechanical design and user experience
Functional prototyping and in field tests
Collaboration with engineers and developers to implement physical and digital products
On going customer involvement to track product success
Agile approach to continuous product improvement and feature updates
About the project
Oktogrid was created to deliver monitoring tools for electrical transformers and from the data rethink reinvestment tools for the electrical grid. The demand for better solutions is urgent due to the rapid rise in electricity consumption and the introduction of renewable energy sources. As a result, the grid now behaves with far greater complexity than in past decades, and this complexity will only increase.
The situation is widely recognized, and industry players are exploring solutions from multiple angles. Our approach stands out for its simplicity, scalability, and focus on the user experience. Rather than relying on rigid and expensive equipment, we developed a low-cost, flexible solution that enables access to a big range of different data sources.
Another key challenge is that the grid is a live system that never shuts down. Monitoring equipment must be installed while the grid remains operational. The process must be fast, non-intrusive and fit into existing maintenance schedules.
The solution to these challenges became Oktogrid's core suite of products:
The data collector,
a lightweight and easily installable device
The install app,
a mobile tool for guiding and validating the installation process
The data dashboard,
a platform for analyzing and visualizing grid health