Miradi is adaptive management software for conservation projects that is used by The Nature Conservancy and thousands of other conservation groups around the world. The projects managed by this software are extremely complicated. They involve not only enormously complex ecosystems, but multiple stakeholder groups with often competing interests.
That data that Miradi manages is vast, and at the start of this project the application was a massive tangled mess. Very little attention had been paid to UX or UI – a perilous approach for software this complex.
From research to results
This was a collaboration with Osage Orange (primary UX/UI consultant) and Sitka Technology Group (project lead & development).
We started with a thorough assessment of the current systems and extensive user research. This discovery work was distilled and used to drive a complete overhaul of the UX and UI of the web application.
The result was a monumental usability improvement to the leading conservation management platform, and a foundational design system ready to support additional improvements.
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