UI / UX Design
Lumiere Digital Dashboard
Created under tight deadlines in collaboration with classmates, this dashboard turned a complex client brief into something clear and actionable. The project showed how strategy, teamwork, and design thinking can bring order to chaos.
Year :
2025
Industry :
Festival
Client :
Lumiere Festival
Project Duration :
Group Project - 2 Weeks
Defining the Problem :
This project began as an assigned client project for school (VFS) with the Vancouver Mural Festival, but when the festival shut down, our group was forced to pivot and began working with the Lumiere Festival with just over two weeks to present a solution.
The Lumiere Festival is an annual festival based in Vancouver that focuses on bringing light to the darker months of the year. With numerous artists coming together, the Lumiere Festival is able to showcase light installations across Metro Vancouver and brighten festival goers winter.
Festival staff, partners, and attendees struggled to access real time stats and key information efficiently, relying on scattered spreadsheets, emails, and in person updates. Through conversations with organizers, partners, and volunteers, we identified the need for a centralized, customizable, and interactive dashboard that could provide quick insights and support decision making prior to and during the event.
Designing the Experience :
My group consisted of Selina Yang (UX/UI Designer), Simran Chepru (UX/UI Designer), and myself. Given the shortened timeline, we decided to assign clear roles to streamline the end to end process. I stepped into the role of Creative Director, where I organized the workload by dividing the project into four pages. I took responsibility for designing two pages, while assigning one page each to Selina and Simran. With just five days to complete our sections, we regrouped to review, refine, and edit the designs together, ensuring the final product was cohesive and flowed seamlessly.
With just over two weeks in total, we focused on designing a dashboard that addressed immediate stakeholder needs while remaining intuitive for future use. We sketched wireframes for the four individual sections: Overview, Festival Impact, Visitor Engagement, and Artists. Due to the condensed timeline, we weren’t able to receive extensive external feedback and instead conducted user testing within the group.
The goal was clarity, essential metrics at a glance, with additional details available interactively. By prioritizing usability and fast iteration, the dashboard provided value within the tight project timeline.
Iteration Through Testing :
Due to the two week timeline, we weren’t able to conduct full external user testing. Instead, we relied on internal group testing and feedback loops within our team to identify pain points, assess usability, and refine the dashboard design.
In the early iterations, the dashboard felt overwhelming, with too many competing charts, sections, and data points vying for attention. To address this, we conducted a detailed review of each section, discussing how stakeholders would interact with the information and which metrics were most critical. We simplified the interface, clarified labels, adjusted the visual hierarchy, and reorganized content to highlight the most important data first.
This iterative approach allowed us to reduce cognitive load, enhance navigation, and make the dashboard more intuitive. Even without extensive external feedback, we were able to anticipate user needs, validate design decisions internally, and ensure the final product was both practical and accessible for a wide range of users.
Delivering the Solution :
The final digital dashboard centralized all key festival data, making it easier for stakeholders to access real time metrics and insights. It streamlined reporting, allowed interactive exploration of attendance, ticket sales, visitor engagement, and artist information, and presented complex data in a clear, digestible format.
Despite the condensed timeline, the team successfully delivered a practical, intuitive tool that addressed the festival’s immediate needs. The Lumiere Festival organizers have expressed strong interest in implementing this dashboard for the 2026 event, highlighting the tangible impact and real world value of our work.
This project demonstrated how rapid iteration, clear design decisions, and effective collaboration can produce a solution that is both functional and adoptable. By balancing clarity, usability, and visual hierarchy, we created a dashboard that stakeholders could immediately use with confidence, turning a fragmented information system into a cohesive, actionable platform.
UI / UX Design
Lumiere Digital Dashboard
Created under tight deadlines in collaboration with classmates, this dashboard turned a complex client brief into something clear and actionable. The project showed how strategy, teamwork, and design thinking can bring order to chaos.
Year :
2025
Industry :
Festival
Client :
Lumiere Festival
Project Duration :
Group Project - 2 Weeks
Defining the Problem :
This project began as an assigned client project for school (VFS) with the Vancouver Mural Festival, but when the festival shut down, our group was forced to pivot and began working with the Lumiere Festival with just over two weeks to present a solution.
The Lumiere Festival is an annual festival based in Vancouver that focuses on bringing light to the darker months of the year. With numerous artists coming together, the Lumiere Festival is able to showcase light installations across Metro Vancouver and brighten festival goers winter.
Festival staff, partners, and attendees struggled to access real time stats and key information efficiently, relying on scattered spreadsheets, emails, and in person updates. Through conversations with organizers, partners, and volunteers, we identified the need for a centralized, customizable, and interactive dashboard that could provide quick insights and support decision making prior to and during the event.
Designing the Experience :
My group consisted of Selina Yang (UX/UI Designer), Simran Chepru (UX/UI Designer), and myself. Given the shortened timeline, we decided to assign clear roles to streamline the end to end process. I stepped into the role of Creative Director, where I organized the workload by dividing the project into four pages. I took responsibility for designing two pages, while assigning one page each to Selina and Simran. With just five days to complete our sections, we regrouped to review, refine, and edit the designs together, ensuring the final product was cohesive and flowed seamlessly.
With just over two weeks in total, we focused on designing a dashboard that addressed immediate stakeholder needs while remaining intuitive for future use. We sketched wireframes for the four individual sections: Overview, Festival Impact, Visitor Engagement, and Artists. Due to the condensed timeline, we weren’t able to receive extensive external feedback and instead conducted user testing within the group.
The goal was clarity, essential metrics at a glance, with additional details available interactively. By prioritizing usability and fast iteration, the dashboard provided value within the tight project timeline.
Iteration Through Testing :
Due to the two week timeline, we weren’t able to conduct full external user testing. Instead, we relied on internal group testing and feedback loops within our team to identify pain points, assess usability, and refine the dashboard design.
In the early iterations, the dashboard felt overwhelming, with too many competing charts, sections, and data points vying for attention. To address this, we conducted a detailed review of each section, discussing how stakeholders would interact with the information and which metrics were most critical. We simplified the interface, clarified labels, adjusted the visual hierarchy, and reorganized content to highlight the most important data first.
This iterative approach allowed us to reduce cognitive load, enhance navigation, and make the dashboard more intuitive. Even without extensive external feedback, we were able to anticipate user needs, validate design decisions internally, and ensure the final product was both practical and accessible for a wide range of users.
Delivering the Solution :
The final digital dashboard centralized all key festival data, making it easier for stakeholders to access real time metrics and insights. It streamlined reporting, allowed interactive exploration of attendance, ticket sales, visitor engagement, and artist information, and presented complex data in a clear, digestible format.
Despite the condensed timeline, the team successfully delivered a practical, intuitive tool that addressed the festival’s immediate needs. The Lumiere Festival organizers have expressed strong interest in implementing this dashboard for the 2026 event, highlighting the tangible impact and real world value of our work.
This project demonstrated how rapid iteration, clear design decisions, and effective collaboration can produce a solution that is both functional and adoptable. By balancing clarity, usability, and visual hierarchy, we created a dashboard that stakeholders could immediately use with confidence, turning a fragmented information system into a cohesive, actionable platform.
UI / UX Design
Lumiere Digital Dashboard
Created under tight deadlines in collaboration with classmates, this dashboard turned a complex client brief into something clear and actionable. The project showed how strategy, teamwork, and design thinking can bring order to chaos.
Year :
2025
Industry :
Festival
Client :
Lumiere Festival
Project Duration :
Group Project - 2 Weeks
Defining the Problem :
This project began as an assigned client project for school (VFS) with the Vancouver Mural Festival, but when the festival shut down, our group was forced to pivot and began working with the Lumiere Festival with just over two weeks to present a solution.
The Lumiere Festival is an annual festival based in Vancouver that focuses on bringing light to the darker months of the year. With numerous artists coming together, the Lumiere Festival is able to showcase light installations across Metro Vancouver and brighten festival goers winter.
Festival staff, partners, and attendees struggled to access real time stats and key information efficiently, relying on scattered spreadsheets, emails, and in person updates. Through conversations with organizers, partners, and volunteers, we identified the need for a centralized, customizable, and interactive dashboard that could provide quick insights and support decision making prior to and during the event.
Designing the Experience :
My group consisted of Selina Yang (UX/UI Designer), Simran Chepru (UX/UI Designer), and myself. Given the shortened timeline, we decided to assign clear roles to streamline the end to end process. I stepped into the role of Creative Director, where I organized the workload by dividing the project into four pages. I took responsibility for designing two pages, while assigning one page each to Selina and Simran. With just five days to complete our sections, we regrouped to review, refine, and edit the designs together, ensuring the final product was cohesive and flowed seamlessly.
With just over two weeks in total, we focused on designing a dashboard that addressed immediate stakeholder needs while remaining intuitive for future use. We sketched wireframes for the four individual sections: Overview, Festival Impact, Visitor Engagement, and Artists. Due to the condensed timeline, we weren’t able to receive extensive external feedback and instead conducted user testing within the group.
The goal was clarity, essential metrics at a glance, with additional details available interactively. By prioritizing usability and fast iteration, the dashboard provided value within the tight project timeline.
Iteration Through Testing :
Due to the two week timeline, we weren’t able to conduct full external user testing. Instead, we relied on internal group testing and feedback loops within our team to identify pain points, assess usability, and refine the dashboard design.
In the early iterations, the dashboard felt overwhelming, with too many competing charts, sections, and data points vying for attention. To address this, we conducted a detailed review of each section, discussing how stakeholders would interact with the information and which metrics were most critical. We simplified the interface, clarified labels, adjusted the visual hierarchy, and reorganized content to highlight the most important data first.
This iterative approach allowed us to reduce cognitive load, enhance navigation, and make the dashboard more intuitive. Even without extensive external feedback, we were able to anticipate user needs, validate design decisions internally, and ensure the final product was both practical and accessible for a wide range of users.
Delivering the Solution :
The final digital dashboard centralized all key festival data, making it easier for stakeholders to access real time metrics and insights. It streamlined reporting, allowed interactive exploration of attendance, ticket sales, visitor engagement, and artist information, and presented complex data in a clear, digestible format.
Despite the condensed timeline, the team successfully delivered a practical, intuitive tool that addressed the festival’s immediate needs. The Lumiere Festival organizers have expressed strong interest in implementing this dashboard for the 2026 event, highlighting the tangible impact and real world value of our work.
This project demonstrated how rapid iteration, clear design decisions, and effective collaboration can produce a solution that is both functional and adoptable. By balancing clarity, usability, and visual hierarchy, we created a dashboard that stakeholders could immediately use with confidence, turning a fragmented information system into a cohesive, actionable platform.