Partnering with top organizations, Curtis Consulting tackles complex business challenges by providing innovative solutions. From streamlining database management processes for global energy giants to revolutionizing retail customer experiences and fortifying cybersecurity platforms, our team delivers impactful results that drive operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business growth.
Discover how Curtis Consulting combines industry expertise with cutting-edge design principles to create intuitive, user-centric solutions tailored to each client's unique needs.
Clients have included:
Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM)
The Business Problem
How to visualize frac site production data to reduce unexpected equipment downtime?
Our Role
Keane, a leading provider of hydraulic fracturing services, sought to address the challenge of unexpected equipment downtime at frac sites. The company recognized the need to leverage data visualization techniques to monitor site production effectively and mitigate potential disruptions. To achieve this goal, Keane partnered with Curtis Consulting to develop a robust Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM) system.
Curtis Consulting led design thinking workshops to solidify project milestones, deliverables, and oversee the front-end user interface development team implementation. The result was an application platform with engaging visualization that renders data in an informative way, currently saving the customers of the client millions of dollars daily by managing downtime and receiving early warnings before issues occur.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Data Visualization
- Research
- Usability Testing
- Remote/Travel
Client: Keane
Lube Planner
The Business Problem
How to safely create a route map by quickly
capturing data in a plant environment?
Our Role
Shell Oil, a global leader in the oil and gas industry, recognized the need to streamline and modernize its lubrication planning process within plant environments. The traditional method of manually recording equipment locations and maintenance schedules using pen and paper was inefficient and prone to errors. To address this challenge, Shell Oil engaged Curtis Consulting as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant operating on-site & remotely for the Shell Agile Hub, to develop a user-friendly and efficient solution named "Lube Planner."
Curtis Consulting performed Service Design that provided organizational and behavioral considerations including user research and usability testing while also designing the initial iteration of the Lube Planner mobile application to map the locations of equipment in need of daily, weekly, monthly, yearly service.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Usability Testing
- Travel (Plant Site Visit)
Client: Shell Oil (Royal Dutch Shell)
UDBSL
The Business Problem
How to visually set-up and manage database creation, redistributing the task to business units?
Our Role
BP (British Petroleum), a global leader in the energy sector, sought to streamline its database creation and management processes across business units. The existing system lacked flexibility and required extensive involvement from the corporate IT department, leading to inefficiencies and delays. To address this challenge, BP engaged Curtis Consulting to develop a user-centric solution named Unified Database Setup and Management System (UDBSL).
Curtis Consulting developed a design solution based around a contextual search which unified the consoles, providing a solution to the question of navigation and creating and environment in which the data returned could be manipulated and filtered for use in the relevant console based on user need. The design solution had to incorporate three dimensional (3-D) graphical elements which were essential in the interaction with the data.
Key Competencies:
- Consulting
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Research
- Information Architecture
- On-site
Client: BP
Line Review
The Business Problem
How to use historical data to streamline & simplify the buying process?
Our Role
The Wal-Mart financial decision making tool needed to be updated and "modernized." The solution Curtis Consulting provided streamlined this process via a wizard and dashboard that took the review process from a months-long endeavor to one that could be completed within ten minutes. Implementing the wizard and dashboard reduced the time spent researching data, allowing the Users to improve their decision making by focusing on analyzing the data available.
Additionally, Curtis Consulting worked with the development team to design an interface that allows the client's internal buyers and external suppliers a real-time view of available products. This tool improved the supply chain between the company and the retailer, giving them reporting tools, a means of filtering products by brand name, sales or other metrics, and provided the ability to make purchase orders to re-supply store and warehouse locations.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UI Design
- Research
- Information Architecture
- Remote/Travel
Client: Wal-Mart
Merchandising Analytics Portal
The Business Problem
How to incorporate customer data & vendor supply chain management in the buying process?
Our Role
Curtis Consulting served as the lead UX designer managing the design and development team. Curtis Consulting oversaw the development and implementation of the M.A.P. web portal which was designed to serve as a hub and data repository for the various applications used throughout the company. This application allowed the user to view supply chain data at a high level and drill down deep into the numbers, allowing them to compare and report on buying, shipping, ordering, and the product inventory around the nation.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UI Design
- Usability Testing
- Information Architecture
- Remote/Travel
Client: Wal-Mart
Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM)
The Business Problem
How to visualize frac site production data to reduce unexpected equipment downtime?
Our Role
Curtis Consulting led design thinking workshops to solidify project milestones, deliverables, and execution plan and oversaw the front-end user interface development team implementation. Creating an engaging visualization that rendered data in an informative way was the central focus of this project.
The end result was an application platform which currently saves the customers of the client millions of dollars daily by managing downtime and receiving early warnings before issues occur.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Data Visualization
- Research
- Usability Testing
- Remote/Travel
Client: Keane
Lube Planner
The Business Problem
How to safely create a route map by quickly capturing data in a plant environment?
Our Role
Curtis Consulting served as a UX Design subject matter expert and consultant operating on-site & remotely for the Shell Agile Hub, specifically designing the initial iteration of the Lube Planner mobile application. The application mapped the locations of equipment in need of daily, weekly, monthly, yearly service.
Performed Service Design that provided organizational and behavioral considerations while also designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on user-centered design research and performing usability testing.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Usability Testing
- Travel (Plant Site Visit)
Client: Shell Oil (Royal Dutch Shell)
UDBSL
The Business Problem
How to visually set-up then manage database creation and redistribute the task to business units?
Our Role
Served as co-lead on a cross-functional team tasked with updating and redesigning the interface for a database management system. The system consisted of several consoles, each needing to function as an individual unit as well as maintain a consistent navigational structure.
Curtis Consulting developed a design solution based around a contextual search which unified the consoles, providing a solution to the question of navigation, creating an environment where the data returned could be manipulated and filtered for use in the relevant console based on user need. The design solution had to incorporate three dimensional (3-D) graphical elements which was essential for interaction with the data.
Key Competencies:
- Consulting
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Research
- Information Architecture
- On-site
Client: BP
Line Review
The Business Problem
How to use historical data to streamline & simplify the buying process?
Our Role
The Wal-Mart financial decision making tool needed to be updated and "modernized." The solution Curtis Consulting provided streamlined this process via a wizard and dashboard that took the review process from a months-long endeavor to one that could be completed within ten minutes. Implementing the wizard and dashboard reduced the time spent researching data, allowing the Users to improve their decision making by focusing on analyzing the data available.
Additionally, Curtis Consulting worked with the development team to design an interface that allows the client's internal buyers and external suppliers a real-time view of available products. This tool improved the supply chain between the company and the retailer, giving them reporting tools, a means of filtering products by brand name, sales or other metrics and provided the ability to make purchase orders to re-supply store and warehouse locations.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UI Design
- Research
- Information Architecture
- Remote/Travel
Client: Wal-Mart
Merchandising Analytics Portal
The Business Problem
How to incorporate customer data & vendor supply chain management in the buying process?
Our Role
Curtis Consulting served as the lead UX designer managing the design and development team. Curtis Consulting oversaw the development and implementation of the M.A.P. web portal which was designed to serve as a hub and data repository for the various applications used throughout the company. This application allowed the user to view supply chain data at a high level and drill down deep into the numbers, allowing them to compare and report on buying, shipping, ordering and the product inventory around the nation.
Key Competencies:
- Project Management
- Consulting
- UX Design Lead
- Service Design
- UI Design
- Usability Testing
- Information Architecture
- Remote/Travel