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Energy Committee Map

An interactive map for analysing how energy flows across Saudi Arabia: oil, gas, and power, with their facilities and networks, in one national view.

Role
UI/UX Designer
Year
Platform
Web (desktop), geospatial portal
Team
NSG Geospatial Services

Context

The energy committee needed to understand how energy moves through the Kingdom: from production and processing sites through transmission networks to generation plants and points of consumption, across oil, gas, and power together rather than one sector at a time.

The data existed but was spread across agencies and formats, with no single view that answered a simple question: what is happening here, and how does it connect to what is around it?

Constraints

  • Many layers on one map (pipelines, power grids, facilities, regions) compete for attention, so layer ordering and symbology became the most important design decision.
  • A mixed audience: sector specialists who want detail, and decision-makers who want the big picture in seconds.

Design decisions

  1. [PLACEHOLDER] Decision 1 — replace with the key design decision

    [PLACEHOLDER] Why this option was chosen over the alternatives. To be written by Mohammed; interview material.

    Rejected alternative: [PLACEHOLDER] What was considered and rejected, and why it lost.

  2. [PLACEHOLDER] Decision 2 — replace with the second decision

    [PLACEHOLDER] Reasoning goes here.

    Rejected alternative: [PLACEHOLDER] Rejected alternative goes here.

Outcome

An interactive map that brings the energy sectors into a single national view, with toggleable layers and side panels that reveal detail when any element is selected.

A unified symbol and colour system for energy types and facilities that stays legible as layers stack up.

Retrospective

The main lesson: on data-dense maps, what you hide by default matters more than what you show. Early versions showed everything; the final one starts with the big picture and leaves detail on demand.

  • GIS
  • Energy
  • Spatial analysis
  • Dashboard
  • Maps