Context
Appa Systems is a company in stealth working to radically reimagine how utilities plan, troubleshoot, and run scenario analysis on the modern day challenges of an electrical grid, ranging from extreme weather demands to solar panels to increased adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs).
Impact
As the first product help for this early stage start-up, I worked with the founding CEO and CTO to translate their extensive user research into a high-fidelity MVP that they could send to stakeholders and convert their first utility customers. We performed a 1-month design sprint, iterating at extreme cycles to move from a lofi version with feature agreement to a high-fidelity MVP that was shopped around to help convert the first pilot programs.