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Building a Charge point platform from scratch
2021 - present
The creative challenge
When I joined Spirii, I walked into three separate systems that needed to work as one, in an industry that was still taking shape. User research was almost non-existent and standards kept changing.
As the only designer for the first few years, the focus was on making things work rather than making them perfect. There were no design systems to lean on and no existing patterns to reference. Most of what we were building hadn't been done before.That meant a lot of prototyping and constant tweaking. Slowly, three separate systems became one platform for managing charge points. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, and every user problem taught us something.
Making It Work
Those three disconnected systems gradually became one unified charge point management platform through lots of prototyping and constant tweaking. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, every user problem taught us something, and each solution helped shape what this kind of platform could be.
What I'd do differently
Looking back, I'd have built a proper design system from the start. It would have made everything faster. But with tight deadlines and limited resources, good enough was often the right call.
Fast forward to now
Things are different now. We have a full design team, user research drives our decisions, and we're finally building the foundations we didn't have time for early on. The platform now manages over 50,000 charge points and serves more than 1,200 customers.
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Building a Charge point platform from scratch
2021 - present
The creative challenge
When I joined Spirii, I walked into three separate systems that needed to work as one, in an industry that was still taking shape. User research was almost non-existent and standards kept changing.
As the only designer for the first few years, the focus was on making things work rather than making them perfect. There were no design systems to lean on and no existing patterns to reference. Most of what we were building hadn't been done before.That meant a lot of prototyping and constant tweaking. Slowly, three separate systems became one platform for managing charge points. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, and every user problem taught us something.
Making It Work
Those three disconnected systems gradually became one unified charge point management platform through lots of prototyping and constant tweaking. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, every user problem taught us something, and each solution helped shape what this kind of platform could be.
What I'd do differently
Looking back, I'd have built a proper design system from the start. It would have made everything faster. But with tight deadlines and limited resources, good enough was often the right call.
Fast forward to now
Things are different now. We have a full design team, user research drives our decisions, and we're finally building the foundations we didn't have time for early on. The platform now manages over 50,000 charge points and serves more than 1,200 customers.
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Copyright © 2009 - 2026 | Dennis B Johansen, designerlab.dk | All rights reserved.
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Building a Charge point platform from scratch
2021 - present
The creative challenge
When I joined Spirii, I walked into three separate systems that needed to work as one, in an industry that was still taking shape. User research was almost non-existent and standards kept changing.
As the only designer for the first few years, the focus was on making things work rather than making them perfect. There were no design systems to lean on and no existing patterns to reference. Most of what we were building hadn't been done before.That meant a lot of prototyping and constant tweaking. Slowly, three separate systems became one platform for managing charge points. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, and every user problem taught us something.
Making It Work
Those three disconnected systems gradually became one unified charge point management platform through lots of prototyping and constant tweaking. Every limitation pushed us to get creative, every user problem taught us something, and each solution helped shape what this kind of platform could be.
What I'd do differently
Looking back, I'd have built a proper design system from the start. It would have made everything faster. But with tight deadlines and limited resources, good enough was often the right call.
Fast forward to now
Things are different now. We have a full design team, user research drives our decisions, and we're finally building the foundations we didn't have time for early on. The platform now manages over 50,000 charge points and serves more than 1,200 customers.
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Copyright © 2009 - 2026 | Dennis B Johansen, designerlab.dk | All rights reserved.