Project Context
Context
Compony
Uzabase (by Carlyle Group)
Title
Head of design
Role
As a product designer, I worked closely with customer success, product, engineering, and data teams to translate recurring client needs around projection and predictability into a scalable product feature. My role included synthesizing customer insights, defining the signal framework, shaping the interaction model, and leading the end-to-end design execution through phased releases.
Project type
New feature to existing B2B SaaS product
Duration
Up to 6 months of customer success–led discovery and client operations, followed by 1 month of focused product design incorporating client feedback to define specifications, and 3 months of development for the Beta release, shipped incrementally in phases thereafter.
Product overview
EDGE Signals is a trend-tracking feature within EdgeIntel designed to help strategy, innovation, and business development teams anticipate where markets and technologies may be heading.While existing tools in the platform primarily analyze historical or competitor activity, Signals focuses on early indicators — such as funding behavior, product launches, partnerships, regulatory events, and market interest — and visualizes how these activities change over time. By highlighting momentum and directional shifts across industries, Signals enables users to identify emerging focus areas before they become obvious.
Target audience
Signals is built for forward-looking decision makers who need to determine where to focus next under uncertainty.Primary users include:
- Strategy & Innovation teams exploring where to place future bets and initiatives
- Product and Business Development leaders prioritizing markets, partnerships, and build vs. buy decisions
- Corporate venture and investment teams identifying early momentum across sectors
- Internal intelligence and research teams supporting leadership with directional insights
These users track multiple industries simultaneously and require a fast, scannable way to detect early momentum and prioritize attention — complementing more retrospective tools focused on competitor tracking.
