U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
Turning climate data into decisions
I led UX strategy and product design for a new multi-agency platform bringing greenhouse gas data from NASA, EPA, NIST, and NOAA into a more unified experience for researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Timeline
2025 – 2026
Role
Senior Product Designer
My Focus
Product Strategy · Research · Information Architecture · Interaction Design · Design System
Collaborators
NASA · EPA · NIST · NOAA · Development & Content Teams
Designing for decisions, not datasets
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center brings together greenhouse gas data, tools, and insights from across federal agencies to make climate information easier to discover, understand, and use.
The challenge
The challenge was more than bringing data into one place. Researchers, policymakers, and the public came to the platform with different questions, levels of expertise, and expectations.
Through user-flow mapping, stakeholder workshops, and collaboration with scientists across agencies, I helped shift the product from a traditional data-access model toward an experience organized around the decisions people were trying to make.
This work shaped the platform's information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual system.
Product strategy
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
For decision-makers → start with the question
Interactive content, maps, and data stories provide context around emissions, trends, locations, and sectors before exposing the supporting data.
For researchers → start with the data
Direct access to datasets and metadata lets experienced users move quickly into detailed scientific information without unnecessary explanation.
Project Highlights
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
Defining the Product Strategy
Need
Greenhouse gas information was fragmented across agencies, datasets, tools, and scientific disciplines, with no unified way for users to explore it.
Goal
Define a product model that could serve both experts looking for scientific data and decision-makers looking for understandable climate insights.
Role
I led UX strategy, mapped user goals and decision pathways, and facilitated cross-agency workshops to align stakeholders around a shared taxonomy and information architecture.
Results
Unified multi-agency product strategy
Shared taxonomy and navigation model
Decision-focused pathways across expertise levels
Designing the data experience
Need
Simply putting greenhouse gas datasets in one place wouldn't help users understand what the data meant or how it related to their questions.
Goal
Create intuitive ways to move from high-level climate questions to maps, visualizations, datasets, and supporting evidence.
Role
I designed the core information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction patterns across locations, sectors, topics, maps, data, and storytelling experiences.
Results
Users could:
Compare emissions and trends across locations and time periods.
Explore multiple data layers to uncover patterns and relationships.
Drill down from national patterns to more specific geographic information.
Connect map findings to datasets, resources, stories, and related actions.
Building a scaleable design system
Need
The platform needed to support a growing ecosystem of data, maps, dashboards, stories, tools, and informational content without creating disconnected experiences.
Goal
Build a flexible system that maintained scientific credibility and accessibility while allowing the product to grow.
Role
I established reusable visual and interaction patterns for navigation, content, maps, data visualization, dashboards, and storytelling, working closely with development and content teams.
Results
Consistent experience across diverse content types
Reusable patterns for future products and features
Scalable foundation for continued platform growth
Making greenhouse gas data more actionable
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Outcomes
fragmented access → shared experience
Created a common product framework for bringing greenhouse gas information from multiple federal agencies into one experience.
datasets → decisions
Shifted the product strategy toward the questions users were trying to answer, not simply the data available.
individual pages → scalable system
Established reusable interaction and visual patterns that could support new datasets, stories, maps, tools, and content over time.
agency terminology → shared language
Helped align stakeholders around common taxonomy, navigation, and product principles.
Takeaways
Start with decisions, not datasets
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Simplify the path, not the science
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Alignment is part of the product
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
A principle I still design by
Make the path to understanding simpler without making the information itself simplistic.
Other works
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
Turning climate data into decisions
I led UX strategy and product design for a new multi-agency platform bringing greenhouse gas data from NASA, EPA, NIST, and NOAA into a more unified experience for researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Timeline
2025 – 2026
Role
Senior Product Designer
My Focus
Product Strategy · Research · Information Architecture · Interaction Design · Design System
Collaborators
NASA · EPA · NIST · NOAA · Development & Content Teams
Designing for decisions, not datasets
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center brings together greenhouse gas data, tools, and insights from across federal agencies to make climate information easier to discover, understand, and use.
The challenge
The challenge was more than bringing data into one place. Researchers, policymakers, and the public came to the platform with different questions, levels of expertise, and expectations.
Through user-flow mapping, stakeholder workshops, and collaboration with scientists across agencies, I helped shift the product from a traditional data-access model toward an experience organized around the decisions people were trying to make.
This work shaped the platform's information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual system.
Product strategy
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
For decision-makers → start with the question
Interactive content, maps, and data stories provide context around emissions, trends, locations, and sectors before exposing the supporting data.
For researchers → start with the data
Direct access to datasets and metadata lets experienced users move quickly into detailed scientific information without unnecessary explanation.
Project Highlights
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
Defining the Product Strategy
Need
Greenhouse gas information was fragmented across agencies, datasets, tools, and scientific disciplines, with no unified way for users to explore it.
Goal
Define a product model that could serve both experts looking for scientific data and decision-makers looking for understandable climate insights.
Role
I led UX strategy, mapped user goals and decision pathways, and facilitated cross-agency workshops to align stakeholders around a shared taxonomy and information architecture.
Results
Unified multi-agency product strategy
Shared taxonomy and navigation model
Decision-focused pathways across expertise levels
Designing the data experience
Need
Simply putting greenhouse gas datasets in one place wouldn't help users understand what the data meant or how it related to their questions.
Goal
Create intuitive ways to move from high-level climate questions to maps, visualizations, datasets, and supporting evidence.
Role
I designed the core information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction patterns across locations, sectors, topics, maps, data, and storytelling experiences.
Results
Users could:
Compare emissions and trends across locations and time periods.
Explore multiple data layers to uncover patterns and relationships.
Drill down from national patterns to more specific geographic information.
Connect map findings to datasets, resources, stories, and related actions.
Building a scaleable design system
Need
The platform needed to support a growing ecosystem of data, maps, dashboards, stories, tools, and informational content without creating disconnected experiences.
Goal
Build a flexible system that maintained scientific credibility and accessibility while allowing the product to grow.
Role
I established reusable visual and interaction patterns for navigation, content, maps, data visualization, dashboards, and storytelling, working closely with development and content teams.
Results
Consistent experience across diverse content types
Reusable patterns for future products and features
Scalable foundation for continued platform growth
Making greenhouse gas data more actionable
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Outcomes
fragmented access → shared experience
Created a common product framework for bringing greenhouse gas information from multiple federal agencies into one experience.
datasets → decisions
Shifted the product strategy toward the questions users were trying to answer, not simply the data available.
individual pages → scalable system
Established reusable interaction and visual patterns that could support new datasets, stories, maps, tools, and content over time.
agency terminology → shared language
Helped align stakeholders around common taxonomy, navigation, and product principles.
Takeaways
Start with decisions, not datasets
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Simplify the path, not the science
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Alignment is part of the product
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
A principle I still design by
Make the path to understanding simpler without making the information itself simplistic.
Other works
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
Turning climate data into decisions
I led UX strategy and product design for a new multi-agency platform bringing greenhouse gas data from NASA, EPA, NIST, and NOAA into a more unified experience for researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Timeline
2025 – 2026
Role
Senior Product Designer
My Focus
Product Strategy · Research · Information Architecture · Interaction Design · Design System
Collaborators
NASA · EPA · NIST · NOAA · Development & Content Teams
Designing for decisions, not datasets
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center brings together greenhouse gas data, tools, and insights from across federal agencies to make climate information easier to discover, understand, and use.
The challenge
The challenge was more than bringing data into one place. Researchers, policymakers, and the public came to the platform with different questions, levels of expertise, and expectations.
Through user-flow mapping, stakeholder workshops, and collaboration with scientists across agencies, I helped shift the product from a traditional data-access model toward an experience organized around the decisions people were trying to make.
This work shaped the platform's information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual system.
Product strategy
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
For decision-makers → start with the question
Interactive content, maps, and data stories provide context around emissions, trends, locations, and sectors before exposing the supporting data.
For researchers → start with the data
Direct access to datasets and metadata lets experienced users move quickly into detailed scientific information without unnecessary explanation.
Project Highlights
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
Defining the Product Strategy
Need
Greenhouse gas information was fragmented across agencies, datasets, tools, and scientific disciplines, with no unified way for users to explore it.
Goal
Define a product model that could serve both experts looking for scientific data and decision-makers looking for understandable climate insights.
Role
I led UX strategy, mapped user goals and decision pathways, and facilitated cross-agency workshops to align stakeholders around a shared taxonomy and information architecture.
Results
Unified multi-agency product strategy
Shared taxonomy and navigation model
Decision-focused pathways across expertise levels
Designing the data experience
Need
Simply putting greenhouse gas datasets in one place wouldn't help users understand what the data meant or how it related to their questions.
Goal
Create intuitive ways to move from high-level climate questions to maps, visualizations, datasets, and supporting evidence.
Role
I designed the core information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction patterns across locations, sectors, topics, maps, data, and storytelling experiences.
Results
Users could:
Compare emissions and trends across locations and time periods.
Explore multiple data layers to uncover patterns and relationships.
Drill down from national patterns to more specific geographic information.
Connect map findings to datasets, resources, stories, and related actions.
Building a scaleable design system
Need
The platform needed to support a growing ecosystem of data, maps, dashboards, stories, tools, and informational content without creating disconnected experiences.
Goal
Build a flexible system that maintained scientific credibility and accessibility while allowing the product to grow.
Role
I established reusable visual and interaction patterns for navigation, content, maps, data visualization, dashboards, and storytelling, working closely with development and content teams.
Results
Consistent experience across diverse content types
Reusable patterns for future products and features
Scalable foundation for continued platform growth
Making greenhouse gas data more actionable
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Outcomes
fragmented access → shared experience
Created a common product framework for bringing greenhouse gas information from multiple federal agencies into one experience.
datasets → decisions
Shifted the product strategy toward the questions users were trying to answer, not simply the data available.
individual pages → scalable system
Established reusable interaction and visual patterns that could support new datasets, stories, maps, tools, and content over time.
agency terminology → shared language
Helped align stakeholders around common taxonomy, navigation, and product principles.
Takeaways
Start with decisions, not datasets
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Simplify the path, not the science
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Alignment is part of the product
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
A principle I still design by
Make the path to understanding simpler without making the information itself simplistic.
Other works
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
Turning climate data into decisions
I led UX strategy and product design for a new multi-agency platform bringing greenhouse gas data from NASA, EPA, NIST, and NOAA into a more unified experience for researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Timeline
2025 – 2026
Role
Senior Product Designer
My Focus
Product Strategy · Research · Information Architecture · Interaction Design · Design System
Collaborators
NASA · EPA · NIST · NOAA · Development & Content Teams
Designing for decisions, not datasets
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center brings together greenhouse gas data, tools, and insights from across federal agencies to make climate information easier to discover, understand, and use.
The challenge
The challenge was more than bringing data into one place. Researchers, policymakers, and the public came to the platform with different questions, levels of expertise, and expectations.
Through user-flow mapping, stakeholder workshops, and collaboration with scientists across agencies, I helped shift the product from a traditional data-access model toward an experience organized around the decisions people were trying to make.
This work shaped the platform's information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual system.
Product strategy
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
For decision-makers → start with the question
Interactive content, maps, and data stories provide context around emissions, trends, locations, and sectors before exposing the supporting data.
For researchers → start with the data
Direct access to datasets and metadata lets experienced users move quickly into detailed scientific information without unnecessary explanation.
Project Highlights
Research made it clear that a single experience wasn't going to serve everyone equally well. Rather than forcing every audience through a traditional data catalog, I advocated for a model that supported two complementary paths:
Defining the Product Strategy
Need
Greenhouse gas information was fragmented across agencies, datasets, tools, and scientific disciplines, with no unified way for users to explore it.
Goal
Define a product model that could serve both experts looking for scientific data and decision-makers looking for understandable climate insights.
Role
I led UX strategy, mapped user goals and decision pathways, and facilitated cross-agency workshops to align stakeholders around a shared taxonomy and information architecture.
Results
Unified multi-agency product strategy
Shared taxonomy and navigation model
Decision-focused pathways across expertise levels
Designing the data experience
Need
Simply putting greenhouse gas datasets in one place wouldn't help users understand what the data meant or how it related to their questions.
Goal
Create intuitive ways to move from high-level climate questions to maps, visualizations, datasets, and supporting evidence.
Role
I designed the core information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction patterns across locations, sectors, topics, maps, data, and storytelling experiences.
Results
Users could:
Compare emissions and trends across locations and time periods.
Explore multiple data layers to uncover patterns and relationships.
Drill down from national patterns to more specific geographic information.
Connect map findings to datasets, resources, stories, and related actions.
Building a scaleable design system
Need
The platform needed to support a growing ecosystem of data, maps, dashboards, stories, tools, and informational content without creating disconnected experiences.
Goal
Build a flexible system that maintained scientific credibility and accessibility while allowing the product to grow.
Role
I established reusable visual and interaction patterns for navigation, content, maps, data visualization, dashboards, and storytelling, working closely with development and content teams.
Results
Consistent experience across diverse content types
Reusable patterns for future products and features
Scalable foundation for continued platform growth
Making greenhouse gas data more actionable
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Outcomes
fragmented access → shared experience
Created a common product framework for bringing greenhouse gas information from multiple federal agencies into one experience.
datasets → decisions
Shifted the product strategy toward the questions users were trying to answer, not simply the data available.
individual pages → scalable system
Established reusable interaction and visual patterns that could support new datasets, stories, maps, tools, and content over time.
agency terminology → shared language
Helped align stakeholders around common taxonomy, navigation, and product principles.
Takeaways
Start with decisions, not datasets
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Simplify the path, not the science
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
Alignment is part of the product
The resulting platform gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a clearer way to explore greenhouse gas information, understand its context, and connect insights back to supporting scientific data.
A principle I still design by
Make the path to understanding simpler without making the information itself simplistic.