Design a Persona-Aware Dashboard for a Smart-Building Platform
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build persona-specific dashboards and a shared component library from stakeholder data, then validate your design. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The company is a 95-person property-technology vendor in Singapore whose smart-building platform serves commercial real-estate operators, portfolio owners, and building tenants from one web application. Its quarterly Net Promoter Score dropped to 18, and product leadership attributes the decline to a single dashboard forced to serve three audiences with conflicting needs.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design a persona-aware dashboard that lifts satisfaction across operators, portfolio managers, and tenants without forking the engineering codebase per role.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate qualitative interview evidence into distinct, jobs-to-be-done personas
- Design information architecture that serves divergent roles from a single shared component system
- Specify interaction patterns precisely enough for an engineering team to build without further design input
- Plan task-based usability validation that targets the highest-risk design decisions
- Justify a design recommendation against measurable user and business signals
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- User Centered Design
Apply user centered design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Interaction Design
Apply interaction design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Persona Design
Apply persona design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Prototyping
Apply prototyping to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Usability Testing
Plan and run usability tests to validate designs with real users.
- Information Architecture
Organize and structure content so users can find what they need intuitively.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Product Manager, Platform UX
This challenge mirrors a core product-management task: turning conflicting user needs into one coherent, buildable design direction and defending it with evidence. You practice scoping a six-week build and aligning research, design, and engineering around shared components.
This challenge sharpens
- user-centered-design
- information-architecture
- persona-design
UX Researcher
You convert raw interview material into actionable personas and design a task-based validation plan with measurable success criteria, the day-to-day work of a researcher who must prove that design decisions hold up against real user behavior before launch.
This challenge sharpens
- persona-design
- usability-testing
- user-centered-design
Product Designer
Designing a shared component library and clickable prototype that serve three roles without forking code is the heart of systems-oriented product design. You leave with a portfolio piece showing interaction specs detailed enough for engineers to ship.
This challenge sharpens
- interaction-design
- prototyping
- information-architecture