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Starmind, a Swiss technology company based in Zurich, provides a self-learning software to big companies to access the entire know-how of the organisation. The cockpit, one of the features of the Starmind application, highlights expertise of the employees and statistics of the network.
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Users can access the cockpit through the Starmind application: this protected area provides real-time insights about skills, knowledge and intelligence in the company that could, for example, allow targeted staffing of project team members. All registered users have their own "know-how map", a personal profile redacted and updated by the Starmind algorithm displaying areas of expertise based on the user's activity.
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The layout of the cockpit is defined in tiles, each housing a widget that can either display a content or interact with the Starmind application. The tiles have been intended to eventually leave to the admin/user how to arrange the content. Infographics are light and sci-fi-ish, not overly designed but just a hint to feel sophisticated. The design has been conceived in close collaboration with the Data Analyst and subsequently implemented and refined by the Interaction Designers and Front End developers. A maximum set of 3 tags has been decided based on the data that less than 1% of all users throughout all networks had relevant expertise in 4 randomly picked topics.
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The cockpit also spearheaded the design of the UI icons. The focus was on a simple yet recognisable silhouette with solid shapes, rounded angles and a minimal use of details. The icons have been designed in a 20 x 20 px grid with a buffer space of 2 px.
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The overall design of the application is clean and allows customers a degree of customisation to apply their own's colour palette, font and logo.
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