/ Overview
The Government of Saskatchewan, comprising over 20 ministries and 12,000 employees, serves more than 1 million citizens who call the beautiful province of Saskatchewan home.
In 2016, the Ministry of Economy partnered with zu to co-design an Economic Dashboard, addressing the challenge of scattered economic data. The goal was to centralize key indicators, making data more accurate, user-friendly, and accessible, while reducing administrative burden.
/ Services
Strategy & Research
- UX Research & Engagement
- Proof of Concept
- Rapid Prototyping
- Workshop Facilitation
Experience Design
- UX & UI Design
- Concept Design
- Product Design
- Information Architecture
Technology & Development
- Technical Strategy
- Web Application Development
- Symfony Development
- API Integrations
/ Outcomes
/ Solutions
/ 2016
Economic Dashboard
For the first iteration and Ministry, we designed and developed a scalable, powerful and user-friendly application providing accurate and timely economic and population data for anyone who sought it. What began as a dashboard for one government ministry could now be used for other ministries and indicators in the future
/ 2020
Health & Wellness Dashboard
The pandemic created intense citizen demand for information surrounding the state of COVID-19 both locally and globally. The Ministry of Health needed a way to provide accessible, real-time data to citizens. Leveraging the existing dashboard, we designed templates, automated parsing, and added security in order to process over 66,000 data points, and 120 indicators of sensitive health data, daily.
/ 2021
Education & Learning
Handcuffed by PowerBI’s limited public accessibility, customization, scalability, and manual intervention, the Ministry of Advanced Education engaged zu to integrate it’s data sets into the Saskatchewan Dashboard, providing citizens insights into enrolment and credentials across Saskatchewan Post Secondary Institutions.
/ 2022-2023
Agriculture & Environment Dashboard
The Ministry of Agriculture needed a better way to provide real-time agricultural data to the public. By adopting the Saskatchewan Dashboard, they centralized key indicators—Steers, Hogs, Canola, Wheat, and 30 additional metrics—making critical data easily accessible and improving decision-making and transparency across the province’s agricultural community.
Building on this, we partnered with the Ministry to redesign the Crop Development Report, which previously relied on spreadsheets, manual surveys, and outdated systems. This upgrade introduced a seamless, decentralized, two-way system for surveying, reporting, and visualizing crop data, enabling Ranchers, Farmers, and Provincial Stakeholders to make more informed decisions and transforming how the Ministry engages with the farming community.
Working through the co-design session with zu was an eye-opening, rewarding experience. The two-day session brought together our stakeholders to brainstorm and prioritize design elements critical to achieving the goals of the project. zu's team coached us to think critically and creatively. It shifted our mindset from back-end operations to an intuitive, user-friendly front-end experience. zu's expertise in the design thinking methodology was paramount in the successful development of the Dashboard.”
Ellen Glaze
Project Lead
Government of Saskatchewan
The dashboard became a vital information source, updated 7-days a week for nearly 2 years. zu was very responsive to our ever-evolving data sets, quickly adding new indicators when they became available. Although the Saskatchewan Dashboard's original intent wasn't for 7-day a week reporting of thousands of data points, zu's ability to adapt and deliver at every step was much appreciated.
Jeff Armstead
Director, Digital Strategy Communications
Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Health
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