UI/UX Design at Mondoo
Mondoo is a cybersecurity product that enables users to quickly fix vulnerabilities across their entire organization. At Mondoo, I worked as a UX designer to help streamline user flows, improve product features, and help make a powerful product beautiful and easy to use.
Below you will find a few examples of projects that I worked on during my time there.
Project
Move the needle dashboard
Goals
Broad understanding: Display a “space risk” score that communicates broad risk across your infrastructure
Prioritization: Show users which findings should be fixed first to improve security posture the most
Tracking: Show progress on fixes that are being worked on
Reporting: Show improvement/regression on the space risk over time
Results
Project
Exceptions management
Exceptions are an unfortunate reality of the cybersecurity world. As much as you want your product to be perfectly secure, there will always be exceptions to rules and extremely valid reasons why you would choose not to fix things. Therefore, we needed a robust exceptions management system for security findings at Mondoo.
Goals
Actionability: Make it clear to users what needs review (and what doesn’t)
Identification: Show who set an exception/where it came from
Scope: Context on what kind of exception it is and where it applies
Understanding the lifecycle of an exception
Exceptions have a complex life cycle that starts with their creation, followed by a review process in which they are approved or rejected, and then they can become live exceptions. There can be secondary reviews with extension requests, they can expire, and of course they can be removed. I needed to understand the whole process before being able to communicate it effectively to users.
The exceptions life cycle inferred a “exception status” concept that was turned into labels that could be displayed in the exception tables in the UI.
Results
Assorted other projects
Mondoo Color Palette Redesign: I created an entirely new color palette for Mondoo's product and brand identity, including an array of data visualization colors which has variants for colorblind users.
Mondoo Navigation Redesign: Updated the product navigation so users could easily navigate sub-pages within the product, including a collapsed variant to fit more data on the screen, and mobile variants so users can keep track of their security on the go.
Complex Data Exploration: When managing at enterprise-level scale, With sprawling technologies across many environments, it can be near impossible to find data within those assets. I designed a new kind of data explorer which makes it easy for users to find what they need.
Dashboards and Data Visualization: Designed data visualization for different levels of the product, from the highest organization level (for CISOs, managers, and executives) to the most granular at the asset level (for hands-on security engineers).
