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Signal

London, UK

Client
Signal Systems
Project type
Web / Product
Year
2024
Location
London, UK
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Overview

A product interface for a monitoring platform. Dense data, calm surface, dashboards that read like a well-set newspaper, not a cockpit.

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Challenge

Operators watch these screens for eight-hour shifts. Every unnecessary pixel is fatigue; every ambiguous state is risk. The old interface had plenty of both.

Approach

A strict typographic hierarchy replaced the chart zoo: tabular numbers, two weights, one accent colour reserved exclusively for alerts. If nothing is wrong, the screen stays quiet.

Result

Time-to-acknowledge on critical alerts dropped by a third in testing, and the design system shipped across all four of the platform's products.