Chennai
May 2024 to September 2025
Trimble is a global leader in construction,
geospatial and transportation.
Trimble Design is a global design team
of more than 60 UX designers
across multiple geographies.
Global design is horizontally aligned
and is structured in three
global design studios.
Trimble Design
EUROPE
Trimble Design
USA
Trimble Design
APAC
The three global design studios of Trimble Inc.
Trimble Design APAC is one of the three global design studios, strategically located near the biggest engineering team in Chennai. The studio has 14 talented designers leading and the UX design for 16 projects for AECO Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations
One Trimble,
One Trimble Design
Pitched the studio model and played a key role in uniting design team members, and unifying the design across multiple products in AECO Platform.
Earlier, the designers were segregated in the organisation. Bringing a consistency in design became a challenge. The created designs were not being evaluated.
created a new studio model which is ‘Horizontally Aligned, Vertically Assigned’. The new studio model created a culture of critique, where the best designs win!
With the new Studio setup, Designers’ Self-Talk changed! They became more accountable for the designs they’re creating. It resulted in overall upliftment of the design processes and design outcomes
Created a connect-zone for team design critique sessions. It helped in leveraging overall design quality and gave rise to 04 new projects
The Trimble Experience
Creating a design system which should match the personality of the work Trimble is doing. A design system with which each individual in organisation can connect to.
key ‘on-field experience’ pillars:
01. High visibility in all weather conditions example: in high sunlight
02. The design should support less battery consumption
key ‘in-office experience’ pillars:
01. Information at a glance for quicker decision making
02. Long screen time, features like dark mode to minimise the stress
key ‘in-transit experience’ pillars:
01. Focus on road, non-intrusive feedback
02. At a glance, feedback and feedforward for efficient transit
Connecting Digital and physical worlds by deriving elements from day-to-day lifestyle of the users. It will enhance the engagement and belongingness to the design.
Being Time-Proof as base of the design system. Discussing a coke bottle with CEO, how a simple design was designed in 1920 and is still relevant in current time
Leading The Future
Ensuring to lead in future demands planning in present. Created three design squads to achieve holistic growth of designers, projects and the studio. The aim of all the squads of to be future oriented in everything we do
Every step to be future oriented.
Created three design squads for holistic growth of the studio.
Core Design Squad to support in creating design system
Customer Experience Squad to understand workflows and find opportunities to integrate them
Future Experience Squad to imagine and manifest the future of all projects
Trimble Intelligence
Approximately two years earlier, when the world was onboarding to AI, we created a full squad with best designers and started creating strategy to make AI part of everyday day-to-day life
Trimble Assistant is a chat agent you can use to ask specific questions about the tasks you can perform in Trimble Financials.
To start a chat, select the Trimble Assistant icon in the navigation bar
Trimble Design APAC
Project Showcase
Trimble WorksManager
Connect the office to the field seamlessly. Empower your teams to make timely decisions with office to field connectivity that enables efficient collaboration. Send construction-ready models to machine operators and survey crews to keep your entire team on the same page and on track, while keeping costs down.
Key Contributions
Holistic UX support
A UX workshop was organised with all the lead stakeholders in Germany. all decision makers sat together and observed the product from the perspective of the users. As a result, 03 years of roadmap was planned to enhance the user experience of the product.
Third party integration
On a construction site, several OEM products are used simultaneously. In WorksManager, the data from third party equipment was integrated. The data security and file types were major parameters to enable the integration.
Trimble Connect Integration
As a result of in-studio design ideation sessions, team discovered if the WorksManager is integrated with cloud, it will make the data more secured as it will be saved remotely, and it will make workflows faster. Access to data can also be monitored well.
Trimble Access
Designed to support the way surveyors work. A leading field software used by professional surveyors around the world, Trimble® Access™ software delivers functionality that supports efficiency, accuracy and ease of use with simplified workflows.
We created holistic workflow and created key personas
Jack - the surveyor
Jack is responsible to visit the site and take the actual survey. He receives the tasks from Phil and contacts Phil in case of any challenge on the field. Phil approves the survey before Jack leaves the survey site
Phil - the survey incharge
Phil is senior surveyor, he works from office and visits the survey site in case of any urgency or challenge. Phil manages multiple surveys at one time. He approves the surveys before surveyors leave the survey site.
Max - the project lead
Max is the project lead. One project may contain several survey sites. Max deals with the end customers and is the final approver to conclude one survey project. Max handles the timelines of the projects.
Identified key friction areas in the existing application, conceptualised the simple solutions to enhance the efficiency of the application while enhancing the overall user experience
Trimble Applanix PosPac
Cloud-based PPK web app solution for UAV mapping sensors. Get the highest precision post-processing straight from our easy-to-use web app.
Key Contributions
End to End Design creation
Holistic UX Design process implementation. Understanding the drone industry, the user expectations, ideating and creating concepts aligned with users and technically feasible. Creating a mockup, got approved and created final designs for the application.
Connected surveying
The air, land and water surveying are handled individually and creates challenges when a land has multiple terrains. Concepts to align all three types of surveying with connect dots, it will reduce the training time, will simplify data transfer and connectivity
The Trimble Experience
Implemented ‘Trimble Experience’ fully in the application, checked feasibility and aligned engineering team too. This became first product to go to market which had fully implemented new design system.
Choosing rather than creating
On selection of a consonant, all the possible combinations with the vowels along with the special characters appear at one place in the vowel toggle. No need to create the combinations, just pick the required combination from the toggle.