Designing compliance critical product workflows for climate & environmental tooling.
Designing compliance critical product workflows for climate & environmental tooling.
Logic first product design for reporting, audit and review systems where mistakes are expensive.
Logic first product design for reporting, audit and review systems where mistakes are expensive.
WHAT I WORK ON
01
Validation & QA logic
Emissions data entry, error flagging and audit trail integrity.
02
Audit & compliance workflows
Submission, query-response and sign-off flows built around how regulators and auditors actually review.
03
MRV & reporting interfaces
Measurement, reporting and verification dashboards that make complex disclosures legible to the people accountable for them.
04
Data-heavy operational tooling
Multi-tool, multi-standard, multi-stakeholder systems. Bringing fragmented program workflows into one coherent surface.
05
Governance & role-based UX
Permissions, two-person sign off and accountability structures that hold up when a process has to be defended.
01
Validation
& QA logic
Emissions data entry, error flagging and audit trail integrity.
02
Audit & compliance workflows
Submission, query-response and sign-off flows built around how regulators and auditors actually review.
03
MRV & reporting interfaces
Measurement, reporting and verification dashboards that make complex disclosures legible to the people accountable for them.
04
Data-heavy operational tooling
Multi-tool, multi-standard, multi-stakeholder systems. Bringing fragmented program workflows into one coherent surface.
05
Governance & role-based UX
Permissions, two-person sign off and accountability structures that hold up when a process has to be defended.
HOW I APPROACH IT
HOW I APPROACH IT
Validation
Governance
Traceability
Workflows
Risk
Structure before scale.
Distinguish structural errors from plausible variance.
Prevent over-blocking that slows customers down.
Reduce fragile logic before audit pressure hits.
Helps early stage teams avoid costly reporting rebuilds later.
Validation
Governance
Traceability
Workflows
Risk
Structure before scale.
Distinguish structural errors from plausible variance.
Prevent over-blocking that slows customers down.
Reduce fragile logic before audit pressure hits.
Helps early stage teams avoid costly reporting rebuilds later.
Validation
Governance
Traceability
Workflows
Risk
Structure before scale.
Distinguish structural errors from plausible variance.
Prevent over-blocking that slows customers down.
Reduce fragile logic before audit pressure hits.
Helps early stage teams avoid costly reporting rebuilds later.
Compliance UX Audit
1-2 WEEKS · FIXED FEE
A focused teardown of an existing tool: where the compliance, audit and reporting flows break, what a regulator would query and what to fix first.
from A$1,500
indicative
Discovery & Definition Sprint
4-6 WEEKS · FIXED FEE
Structured discovery and workflow mapping through to a prioritised capability list, architecture view and a briefing a build team can act on.
A$12-$18k
indicative
Embedded Design Partner
ONGOING · DAY RATE
Dedicated design capacity embedded with one product team, scaled to one to three days a week. Depth without the overhead of a full-time hire.
from A$3,000/mo
indicative
HOW I WORK WITH TEAMS
BACKGROUND
HOW I WORK WITH TEAMS
Compliance UX Audit
A focused teardown of an existing tool: where the compliance, audit and reporting flows break, what a regulator would query and what to fix first.
from A$1,500
1-2 WEEKS · FIXED FEE
indicative
Discovery & Definition Sprint
Structured discovery and workflow mapping through to a prioritised capability list, architecture view and a briefing a build team can act on.
A$12-$18k
4-6 WEEKS · FIXED FEE
indicative
Embedded Design Partner
Dedicated design capacity embedded with one product team, scaled to one to three days a week. Depth without the overhead of a full-time hire.
from A$3,000/mo
ONGOING · DAY RATE
indicative
My route to designing climate tooling starts close to the ground: urban design through landscape architecture, firefighting with the Rural Fire Service and stints of urban farming.
The throughline was always strong foundations - what's built well from the base is what holds when conditions turn.
I started Middleground to bring that instinct to climate work. Deeply technical, data heavy and often a mix of software and hardware that must be transformed into something workable, without losing its complexity.
Currently focused on designing the validation, audit and reporting layers behind environmental compliance.
Tools and Methods
Design: product and interface design, wireframing and prototyping, design systems
Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Spatial & environmental: spatial design and analysis, 3D modelling, remote sensing, photogrammetry, point clouds
QGIS/ArcGIS, Rhino, AutoCAD, CloudCompare
BACKGROUND
My route to designing climate tooling starts close to the ground: urban design through landscape architecture, firefighting with the Rural Fire Service and stints of urban farming.
The throughline was always strong foundations - what's built well from the base is what holds when conditions turn.
My route to designing climate tooling starts close to the ground: urban design through landscape architecture, firefighting with the Rural Fire Service and stints of urban farming.
The throughline was always strong foundations - what's built well from the base is what holds when conditions turn.
I started Middleground to bring that instinct to climate work. Deeply technical, data heavy and often a mix of software and hardware that must be transformed into something workable, without losing its complexity.
Currently focused on designing the validation, audit and reporting layers behind environmental compliance.
I started Middleground to bring that instinct to climate work. Deeply technical, data heavy and often a mix of software and hardware that must be transformed into something workable, without losing its complexity.
Currently focused on designing the validation, audit and reporting layers behind environmental compliance.
Tools and Methods
Design: product and interface design, wireframing and prototyping, design systems.
Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Spatial & environmental: spatial design and analysis, 3D modelling, remote sensing, photogrammetry, point clouds.
QGIS/ArcGIS, Rhino, AutoCAD, CloudCompare
LET'S COLLABORATE
LET'S COLLABORATE