OneHouse.ai

DASHBOARD DESIGN FOR AI PROJECT

OneHouse.ai was building a new data-automation infrastructure product and needed a dashboard before the platform was public — there was no existing UI to react to, only a backlog of technical requirements and a stealth-mode team.

01 - Discover

With no live product to audit, discovery meant working backward from the team's own mental model: how a data engineer thinks about pipelines, jobs, schemas, and lineage. I ran working sessions with the founding team to pull that model out of their heads and onto a whiteboard.

02 - Define

I structured the information architecture around that domain model rather than around generic SaaS dashboard conventions — pipelines as the primary object, with status, lineage, and automation rules nested underneath instead of buried in settings.

03 - Design

Wireframes first, to get the navigation and hierarchy agreed on cheaply, then a full high-fidelity dashboard design in Figma — organizing a genuinely dense technical surface into something a data engineer could navigate without a manual.

OUTCOME

The design gave OneHouse a coherent product to demo to early customers and investors well before engineering had production data flowing through the system.