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04Case Study · Web · 2025

RISE.

An AI-powered platform that turns sustainability challenges into funded, impactful projects — connecting innovators, solution providers and financiers across a single six-stage pipeline.

Role
UI/UX Designer
Type
Web · Admin Dashboard
Year
2025
Tools
Figma · Lovable · ChatGPT
RISE analytics dashboard
01Overview

A pipeline, a co-pilot, and a ledger.

RISE is built around one idea: a sustainability challenge should travel a single, visible pipeline from the moment it is posted to the moment it is funded. Sera, the embedded AI, scores impact and viability at every step, and a financier's portfolio view sits at the end of the same rail — no hand-offs, no exports, no rebuilt context.

02Problem

Sustainable capital is slow because context keeps resetting.

Challenges live in PDFs, solutions live in pitch decks, evaluations live in spreadsheets, and funding lives in emails. Every stage loses information from the last one. RISE was designed to make the pipeline itself the source of truth — every page reads from and writes to the same six-stage spine.
03Users

Four roles, one shared timeline.

Challenge Owners

Governments, NGOs and corporates who post the problems that need solving.

Solution Providers

Startups, SMEs and large enterprises that propose technologies and services.

Financiers

Banks, funds and DFIs that commit capital, with risk and bankability surfaced inline.

Platform Admins

EOSD operators who manage users, AI prompts, invites and support.

04Information Architecture

One sidebar, six destinations.

Dashboard·
Challenges·
Profiles·
Invites·
Settings·
Reach Us

The Challenges destination unfolds into the six-stage funding pipeline: Challenge Submission → Solution Intelligence → Opportunity Creation → Proposal Submission → Evaluation & Matching → Funding Commitment.

05Final Screens

Ten screens, one funding ecosystem.

Each screen below earns its place in the pipeline. Captions explain the decision, not the obvious.

Login
Login

Split-screen brand promise — 'Rise Now. Define Tomorrow.' — with the value props (AI matchmaking, GDPR governance) carried by the gradient panel so the form stays a single calm column.

Register as an Organization
Register as an Organization

One scrollable form grouped by intent — Contact, Password, Organization, Institution — with a toggle that reveals organization fields only when needed, so individual users never see noise.

RISE Analytics Dashboard
RISE Analytics Dashboard

Ecosystem KPIs, a six-stage challenge pipeline, sector performance, financial insights, TRI, FRI, and user growth — one scroll that answers 'how is the platform doing?' for every stakeholder.

Posted Challenges
Posted Challenges

Pipeline header + sector-stacked bar charts above filterable challenge cards. Stage, urgency, SDGs, and the contextual primary action (Review Proposals · Submit · View Fundings) live on each card.

Challenge Submission & Analysis
Challenge Submission & Analysis

Long structured form on the left, Sera AI co-pilot on the right — primary SDGs, impact scores, completeness and commercial viability update live as the user types, so AI is a side panel, not a modal.

Funding Commitment & Financial Closure
Funding Commitment & Financial Closure

Funding type picker, terms, disbursement schedule and financier info on the left; Sera's risk analytics, cash-flow projection, portfolio fit, and impact projection on the right — the entire commitment decision on one page.

Technology Provider Profiles
Technology Provider Profiles

Sector-scoped directory (Agri-Food shown) with five KPI tiles, segmented filters (All · Startups · SMEs · Large Enterprise) and a domain-level table with development phase and impact score per provider.

Invitation Management
Invitation Management

Email-driven role invites with copyable accept links, status badges (Pending · Accepted), resend and revoke actions — admins onboard ecosystem participants without leaving the table.

Settings — AI Prompts Management
Settings — AI Prompts Management

Every Sera AI field is a row: field name, prompt key, page, description, and inline view/edit — so admins tune the AI without touching code or shipping a release.

Reach Us
Reach Us

Support tickets and product feedback split into two equally-weighted cards, with a 1–5 satisfaction strip and a recent submissions feed below — one page for both 'something is broken' and 'something could be better'.

06Key UX Decisions

Six choices that shaped RISE.

AI as a side panel, not a modal

Sera's analysis lives next to every form so scores, SDGs and risk update as the user types — never an interruption, never a separate trip.

Six-stage pipeline, everywhere

Submission → Solution → Opportunity → Proposal → Evaluation → Funding is the spine of the product; the same chip strip appears on the dashboard, challenge list, and every detail page.

Scoring is colour-coded, not numeric-only

Social, economic, environmental, bankability, TRI, FRI — each score reads as a tinted progress bar or ring first, number second, so non-analysts can scan a portfolio.

Role-based invites over self sign-up

Admins issue scoped invite links; the registration form adapts to whether the invitee is an individual or an organization, so RBAC is set up before the first login.

Prompts are content, not code

AI Prompts Management surfaces every Sera prompt as an editable record with a key, page, and description — product owners iterate prompts without a deploy.

Feedback and support share a page

Tickets and ideas live side by side with an urgency toggle and a community feed underneath — the loop from issue to fix to changelog is one URL.

07Design System

Teal-to-lime, structured density.

A single teal → lime gradient anchors progress, scores, and primary actions; neutral surfaces carry the dense data tables and form grids. Type pairs Space Grotesk display with DM Sans body — the same ladder used across the rest of the site, tuned tighter for dashboard density. Status uses a fixed palette: teal (active), amber (pending), red (urgent / critical), emerald (accepted / success).
08Outcome

A platform that makes the pipeline the product.

The final design replaces a workflow scattered across PDFs, decks and email threads with one continuous rail — a dashboard that answers ecosystem-level questions, six staged pages where AI co-authors the work, and an admin layer where prompts, users and feedback are all editable content.
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