Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
Analysts open their Atlas software to a summary of the day. New reports are summarized in a running text on the left, with highlighted words paired to images and documents on the right. Emails, customer interests, and tag filters sit along the bottom.
Intelligence analysts provide warnings of potential terrorist actions against U.S. interests. Our analyst, Chloe, faces a pile of "dots," intelligence data arriving from many different sources. Her first job is deciding which dots are worth connecting, then inferring what those connections mean.
Before heading into Figma, Miro was our home for collaborating on notes and research
Persona for Chloe, the analyst reporter. Including task flow, pain points, etc.
We interviewed several intelligence analysts along the way and mapped our takeaways.
Faces are blurred for the privacy of the analysts
We did a ton of low fidelity sketching and proceeded to "kill our babies."
One concept I developed further. Still think it was a good idea, but I let this one go.
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