Everyday across Ireland and the UK, ESB Generation and Trading manage, monitor and trade energy from 9 hydro stations, 10 thermal stations and 18 wind farms. Prior to RTV, Station Managers would gather data using a variety of interfaces and tools, then aggregate the information before making decisions.

The data was not available in real-time, graphs and dashboards were in many different formats thus time consuming to analyse as a whole, and not all generation sources such as wind could be visualised.

Visualising Data Empowering Station Managers.

Granite was tasked with improving operational and financial efficiencies by developing a user-friendly, centralised go-to data visualisation hub in ESB Generation that: facilitated business collaboration, consolidated all data sources, enabled informed, data driven business decisions and responded to operational and commercial challenges.

Collaboration & Communication

Through collaboration, product definition, user research, rapid design and development, WONDR developed a user-friendly, centralised go-to data visualisation hub in ESB Generation Trading. Working closely with all stakeholders, plant managers and traders, we scoped user, technology and business requirements in order to establish clear processes, KPIs and deliverables.

The team was purposely kept tight and focused to ensure a high level of understanding and continuity.

During the LAB+ Discovery and Definition phase the design teams engaged all stakeholders, holding many sessions to gather

• Defined team costing of UX/UI and ESB resource
• Dedicated phase using UX design to define the project
• User research and site visit
• MoSCoW and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) definition for release
• UX prototype
• User testing and analysis
• UX refinement and sign off

Agile Design. Accelerated Delivery.

We employed agile to deliver UX and UI sprints based on MVP release stories. We user tested with actual plant managers, engineers, traders and lead stakeholders to validate ideas before building them.

To enable rapid delivery and iterations, we created a UI style library.

Providing Clarity. Delivering Consistency

After the UX and UI phases, we developed HTML templates, a component library, and structured documentation for seamless backend integration, including static templates with Ajax interactions and JSON data examples.

We provided a dark-themed ESB toolkit for rapid development and set up a frontend resource for QA during Development Sprints to ensure quality. All documentation was organised in Confluence for easy access. Following the RTV application’s launch, we consolidated downstream data sources, establishing it as the business’s single source of truth.