Customers wanted more complex visualizations of their maps, to combine what they cared about mostly – people and assets – with other visual information, like wind and weather patterns, to get deeper insights about a current crisis or future risks in a region.
The solution had to be simple and intuitive and allow them to easily add their own map overlays or from external vendors.
The solution had to be based in the Mapbox platform that already existed on the product.
Extend our current mapping platform to use new available features from Mapbox to allow customers to extend/augment their current UI controls and visualizations.
Took a deep dive into the new Mapbox extensions and Javascript options for displaying new UI controls and mapping layers.
Created multiple prototypes showing how the new visualizations could look, including controls within the map canvas and realistic overlays. This allowed us to test which kinds of visualizations where important to them and why.
In the user testing process, we discovered the need for a “watchlist” feature to bookmark hotspots for on-going risk monitoring.
Created "map anatomy" and "cheatsheet" diagrams for developers to reference and understand the new enhancements to the Mapbox library toolkit.
Figma, Adobe Animate, Photoshop, Mapbox
