Geoview Map Pins Case Study

This is how I transformed Cradlepoint’s Geoview map pins from old to gold by Phillip Hajjar

INTRODUCTION

Cradlepoint is headquartered in Boise ID with approximately 1,000 employees. They help customers utilize 4G and 5G cellular technology to connect people, places, and things anywhere. They specialize in 4G LTE Networking Solutions, Network Failover Solutions, Cloud Networking, Transportation Networking Solutions, Wireless WAN, Private 5G, Private LTE, Private Cellular Network to name a few.


MY ROLE

As an Interaction Designer, I create low fidelity mockups, high fidelity visual designs, and interaction patterns from undetailed specifications and requirements. I work closely with other designers, engineers, product managers, QA, and program managers to create, build, best in class user experience for Cradlepoint’s Saas product. 

PROBLEM

  • Size, the current icons are pretty large and cover the map, it's not a great viewing experience. The current icons lack a pointer, so it’s hard to pinpoint the exact location of the device when looking at the map.  
  • Not having consistency across the entire platform. For example in Home Dashboard, Cellular Health, and Geoview.
  • The badges on the icon could look pretty cluttered especially when there are several 100 devices nearby of each other.
  • Having so many different available combinations available which could potentially cause technical problems when rendering the location on the map.

GOAL 

To give a clear, consistent view of the device’s location and status (online/offline) on all maps in NCM.

IMPACT

The online/offline icons reside throughout NCM and are incorporated into all maps, the Home Dashboard, Cellular Health, and Geoview, with a consistent look and feel. The Users are used to seeing this icon.

SOLUTION

I gathered information from Google Maps and Zillow’s website to get a better feel of how to display large amounts of data points in a single map. With a clear, consistent view of each router, all users can see the status at a glance.

GEOVIEW MAP ICONS

Here Are Some Design Iterations.

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