Our old tool called Radar produced inherent risk analysis for companies serving as a predictive tool to help large organisations prioritise who to assess. Radar lived in a separate platform and it's design language was completely different to all other Sedex's toolkit.

As we are upgrading the platform's design language, we need to also update the dashboard. Due to the different widgets that would go on the dashboard, all designers needed to come together and design widgets according to their background knowledge from their focused teams. Can we also incorporate Radar in the new dashboard?

Because I was the designer on the supply-chain project, I took the initiative to bring Radar in as a separate effort. I designed the hierarchical visualisation of trade relationships first, and Radar’s prioritisation patterns, and users' map interactions would inform if a future map based supply-chain view could work.

I joined a big workshop together with both our field experts and the developers that built the old Radar to understand how it works.

The platform uses an engine that understands patterns from the risks uncovered by Sedex's assessment tools and it generates risk prediction, known as inherent risk in the industry.

This question was important so we could determine if we would shut this tool down, leave it as it is, or bring it in the new dashboard.

After looking at the numbers, we decided that it was worth putting a small team including myself, a Tech Lead, a Solutions Architect and a Front-End developer to connect Radar with the new Dashboard.

At this stage, I conducted several user research sessions. Customers said they use Radar to prioritise assessment requests, but I observed significant usability issues. Further analysis showed that interpreting the data was time-consuming and hard to grasp quickly.

Radar began as an internal tool for Sedex’s ESG consulting team and was later released to customers as a standalone product alongside the main platform. It’s used by Ethical Trade Coordinators, Health & Safety officers, and similar roles at companies such as Tesco, M&S, Walmart, and Unilever. In Product, we defined a vision to bring a Radar interface and experience into the new dashboard.

We introduced a bi-weekly Design Day, where the design team co-created the new dashboard. With clear ownership of different tools, each designer defined the widgets linked to their area.

Using an AI assistant linked to my AI notetaker, I distilled my research and created initial design concepts for Radar on the new dashboard.

I after testing some wireframes in mid-fidelity, I decided to protype the fin high-fidelity and test to validate what might be the final concept.