REGISTRY

Overview

This project was the first platform I ever designed. Looking back now, it was a challenge that I truly enjoyed working on, even though the concept of the carbon market, carbon regulations, and methodologies was initially overwhelming. I can’t thank Riverse’s CTO, Clément, enough for giving me the chance to prove what I was learning during my UI/UX Master’s in Paris. His additional guidance and expertise were essential to my professional growth.
The Registry was the first product developed by Riverse in 2022/2023, a pioneering carbon crediting platform focused on technology-driven projects that generate both economic and environmental benefits.

The Registry serves several key functions: Publicly displaying all Carbon Credits certified by Riverse, tracking each Carbon Credit from its source project to the final buyer, offering detailed pages for every credit-generating project or Providing a full transaction history (including credits sold, transferred, cancelled, and generated).

Additionally, companies can register on the platform to purchase credits, receiving a certificate verifying their acquisition.

My contribution

Product Strategy
User Research
Product Design

The team

1x product manager
1x product designer
3x engineers

Year

2022

Process

Organization

The feedback loop among the team was essential in adapting the platform’s design to the demanding requirements of carbon credit regulators, engineers, and business goals.

In addition, in the startup environment, it was necessary to develop one feature at a time to create an effective MVP, keeping investors engaged and attracting initial buyers for carbon credits. Synchronization with the climate team proved successful in creating content that was accurate and 100% in line with regulatory standards, ensuring the startup gained ICROA certification, one of the most prestigious in the field.

A close communication with the Project Manager and Design Leader was essential to organize the structure and logic of the platform, also for the long term in order to use resources effectively.

UX research

To create the registry, I first studied the possible personas that would use it, created an initial diagram showing the tree structure and the logic behind each possible user action. After that I created a quick benchmark for the UI components and began the creation of wireframes.

Initially the publicly visible part was called the Public registry, but since it gave the non-transparent feeling that there was something non-transparent I proposed the name Ledger. A complete and transparent ledger of all the transactions that were made in the registry.

Design System

At the beginning of this project, we had not implemented an interconnected Design System, which made managing updates more challenging. Recognizing the need for a more efficient workflow, I later developed a structured Design System that allowed for seamless updates across the prototype.

As the lead designer, I created a Design System that enabled an interconnected and consistently updated prototype. This approach ensured that any changes to key components would automatically propagate throughout the entire prototype.

Also, by utilizing Storybook and a Figma plugin, we directly linked the Design System to the development environment, streamlining the management of design updates.

Prototype

Since the Registry was my first platform that I designed I did not initially use all the tools of a proper prototype implementation.
Only later did I update the prototype with:

Riverse’s Figma Design System (updated with new components using the Atomic Design principle)
Responsive design thanks to auto layout, constraints, and grids
The prototype can be tested with Figma preview (all animations and hover effects are fully functional)

Email templates

I created the email templates for automatic registry messaging.

Outcome

The Registry has been fully operational since 2023 and transactions made on the platform have allowed numerous green projects to receive significant funding to expand and continue their ecological activity.

We continuously updated the Registry with both UI and development upgrades over the following years.