Circonus
Observability & Monitoring UI

Industry:

Startup, Observability & Monitoring, SaaS

Role:

Sr. Designer, IC

Challenge:

Update and modernize data visualization, extend branding to the digital space, define marketing materials for increased engagement and adoption.

Users:

  • SREs
  • DevOps
  • Data Scientists/Analysts

Methods & Technologies:

  • User Interviews
  • Accesibility reviews
  • Stakeholder Interviews
  • A/B Testing
  • SEO and Google Analytics tracking
  • Collateral included banner ads, targeted landing pages, email campaign templates, brochures, conference SWAG.

Circonus is a monitoring and observability solution primarily used by Data Scientists and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to better understand and predict IT operations system health. I was hired as Senior Designer at Circonus to work in both Marketing and Product Design.

My first task was to redesign the existing Circonus.com site and to create a style guide and other branded materials to support sales and marketing efforts. Next I was tasked with redesigning the data visualization UI.

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Website & Branding Redesign

I redesigned the site from the ground up using WordPress and Bootstrap to create a custom theme. I also redesigned the blog section as well using custom PHP to display posts and create relational suggested reading, in order to increase user engagement.