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02 Siemens Smart Infrastructure · UX Design

Energy Manager.

A Building X product for monitoring and optimizing energy consumption and production across complex building portfolios.

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Role
Senior UX Designer
Company
Siemens — Building X
Discipline
End-to-end UX Design
Scope
Discovery → handoff

01 Context

Within Siemens' Building X, Energy Manager is a digital product for monitoring and optimizing energy consumption and production in complex building portfolios.

02 Role

I worked as a Senior UX Designer, contributing to the end-to-end design process — from discovery and concept validation to detailed interaction design and developer handoff.

03 Activities

I collaborated with project managers and product owners to define and prioritize new features. I conducted user research through interviews and surveys, and created personas, user-journey maps and empathy maps. I developed information architecture, sitemaps and navigation flows to structure content.

I designed wireframes, low- and high-fidelity prototypes and mockups to visualize flows and interfaces. I ran usability testing, gathered feedback, iterated to optimize accessibility, usability and business goals, and aligned with developers and stakeholders to ensure correct implementation.

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Dashboard interface with filters, charts and reusable components.

04 Impact

Delivered and discussed component feasibility with developers, including:

  • Interactive and filterable dashboards with charts.
  • Components like date pickers, filter sets, and internal standards based on shapes and colors.
  • New sections, like dashboards or site-manager panels.
  • End-to-end process for the scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions monitoring dashboard, requested to earn ISO 14067 certification.

I also ensured the frontend implementation matched the delivered UI.

05 Key learnings

  • Do not always prioritize feasibility in design; what seems impossible is often achievable.
  • Ensure you are not reinventing the wheel.
  • Save mockups of the bold concepts you propose, even if they won't be accepted — otherwise you'll end up only using the screens already available online.
Platform overview illustrationPlatform overview
Platform overview illustration.