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The goal was simple. Take the old CityStats survey data and give it a modern presentation. I needed to reduce the noise and make it easy to read at a glance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6795618bffb3a811defa779d/7971a411-2150-444f-9b07-974ca35c0993/CityStats_02.png Casework - City Stats Redesign with AI Development Auditing the Old System. The team had been using Tableau, which worked, but it boxed them in. It was hard to match to their brand and it wasn't responsive. Before they could even use Tableau, someone had to manually rebuild the spreadsheet just to get it into a format Tableau could read. That step alone took forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6795618bffb3a811defa779d/8b66470a-a6b9-4821-8e32-25535343c8c1/CityStats_03.png Casework - City Stats Redesign with AI Development Building the Design System. I pulled from the organization's brand guidelines and built a style guide in Figma. 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