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Hail Region GIS Portal

A geospatial portal for the Hail Development Authority that brings the region’s spatial data into one place to support planning and development.

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

Context

The Hail Development Authority needed a single spatial view of the region: administrative boundaries, infrastructure, projects, and services, so that planning and development decisions rest on one shared map.

I designed the portal from its information architecture to its final screens: how content is explored, how layers are managed, and how a user finds what they need without GIS expertise.

Constraints

  • Users are authority staff, not mapping specialists, so the portal’s tools had to feel like familiar work tools rather than GIS software.
  • Arabic-first content in an interface used daily, where clarity and consistency mattered more than any visual flourish.

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

A geospatial portal with a unified interface for exploring the region’s layers, searching, filtering, and viewing details, built on a design system reusable across similar portals.

Retrospective

What improved the result most was reviewing early with real users from the authority; our assumptions about the "common tasks" did not survive the first session.

  • GIS
  • Portal
  • Regional planning
  • Hail
  • Maps