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Designing for Lower Carbon Footprints at Scale

Designing for Lower Carbon Footprints at Scale

Designing for Lower Carbon Footprints at Scale

Transform complex carbon flow data into a clear, scalable, and actionable platform. The new experience helps businesses trace product imports, compare emissions against benchmarks, and follow low-footprint recommendations that contribute to a more sustainable world.

Location

Location

Seattle, US

Duration

Duration

Started June 2024 — Ongoing

Date

Date

Tools

Tools

Notion, Figjam, Figma

Designing for Lower Carbon Footprints at Scale

The Client

Muir.AI is a product-level intelligence platform that helps companies model and minimize their carbon impact while improving supply chain transparency and cost efficiency. It blends AI, procurement data, and sustainability modeling to deliver actionable insights like product carbon footprints, supplier sourcing, emission-reduction recommendations, and should-cost analysis.

The Challenge

Data-heavy UX: Users faced complexity when navigating emissions data, supply origins, and cost metrics—often in one overwhelming interface.

Lack of clarity: Users needed a clearer visual hierarchy to make sense of metrics like PCFs, cost breakdowns, and reduction recommendations.

Scalability concern: The platform had to grow with new features—like Reduction Engine, Supply Trace, and Product Origin—without losing usability.

Our Approach

We began with competitive benchmarking, then rebuilt the Information Architecture to prioritize clarity. Wireframes evolved into high-fidelity designs in Figma, always tested against user needs and client feedback.

A flexible design system ensured that as Muir.AI grew, new modules could integrate seamlessly without breaking usability.

What We Did

Simplified Dashboard: Surfaced the most actionable emissions and cost insights up front.

Drill-Down Product Views: Structured, card-based layouts for product ID, supplier, cost, emissions, and recommendations.

Integrated Modules: Designed cohesive flows for key features like Supply Trace, Reduction Engine, and Product Origin.

Visual Card Architecture: Each dataset represented in consistent, scannable visuals.

Streamlined Experience

We built a flow that starts with clear summaries, then lets users dive deeper:

Emissions reporting (Carbon Origin)

Supply chain tracing (Supply Trace)

Reduction strategies (Reduction Engine)

Cost & sourcing insights (Product Origin)


This layered experience transforms overwhelming datasets into a narrative users can follow and act on.

Testing & Iteration

The design evolved alongside Muir’s agile product roadmap. We iterated wireframes and UIs in step with shifting requirements, ensuring accuracy and usability. Regular feedback loops with the client guaranteed pixel-perfect presentation of every data element.

Future-Proof UI

The modular design system ensures Muir can introduce new tools—such as Supplier Engagement or PACT compliance—without disrupting usability. Every feature shares the same visual logic, giving the platform consistency no matter how it expands.

The Results

The redesigned platform delivered improved engagement, with users spending more time exploring their products’ carbon impact and insights. The Muir.AI team praised the precision and pixel-perfect UI, noting how visual alignment built greater trust in reporting and recommendations.

Thanks to the scalable design system, new modules like Reduction Engine and Supply Trace integrated seamlessly without compromising usability. Most importantly, the platform now simplifies carbon flow reporting and provides actionable paths to help companies reduce their footprint, contributing to a more responsible world, society, and environment.

FAQ

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How much does a UX design project with Groto cost?

Fixed projects start at US$5,000. Hourly engagements are US$50/hour. Share your brief so we can recommend the right scope.

How quickly can you start, and when will I see the first designs?

You can meet your designer within 24 hours and work starts immediately after. The 7-day free trial delivers a real design task from your actual backlog, not a mockup, so you see output in the first week. For Part-Time and Full-Time plans, a full UX strategy report lands within two weeks.

What happens if I do not like the designer or the work?

Start with the 7-day free trial before paying anything. If the fit is wrong, you walk away at no cost. After that, plans are month-to-month, you can request a different designer at any time, and you can pause for up to three weeks per quarter with credits rolling over. Cancel anytime.

Do I get one designer or a whole team?

You get a dedicated designer as your primary contact, backed by Groto’s 20-person studio. That means one consistent person who knows your product, with specialist support pulled in for research, brand, or development work without a new contract.

How do you measure whether the design actually worked?

Groto ties design work to product metrics agreed before the project starts, typically conversion rate, activation, task completion, and retention. On the IVHQ engagement, that produced a 2.3X conversion rate increase and 1.25X improvement in customer retention. Every engagement begins with a baseline measurement so the change is attributable.

Do you design UX for AI chatbots and conversational tools?

Yes. Groto designs conversational UX for chatbots, assistants, and support tools, covering the parts that break most often: turn-taking and interruption handling, streaming response states, fallback and handoff to a human agent, and tone calibration so the bot does not overpromise. The hard part is not the chat window, it is what happens when the model is confidently wrong.

Can your team handle UX for AI agents and copilot-style products?

Yes. Agentic and copilot products need patterns traditional UX does not cover: showing what the agent is about to do before it acts, permission gates on irreversible actions, human-in-the-loop checkpoints across multi-step tasks, and undo that genuinely reverses state. Groto has shipped copilot and agent interfaces for Camb.ai (AI dubbing) and Pathways (AI hiring). Trust calibration matters more than speed.

Do you help enterprises with UX for AI dashboards and reporting tools?

Yes. Groto designs data-dense enterprise dashboards and reporting tools, including AI-generated insights where the real design problem is explainability: showing why the model surfaced a number, letting analysts drill from summary to source rows, and flagging low-confidence output instead of presenting every figure with equal certainty. Enterprise buyers need an audit trail, not just a chart.

Is Groto a good fit for a B2B SaaS or enterprise product?

Yes. Groto specialises in complex B2B SaaS, enterprise internal tools and AI products, including dashboards, admin panels and data-heavy interfaces where information density matters more than visual polish. Current work spans AI platforms, fintech, healthcare and edtech, with clients across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

What should I look for when choosing a UX design agency, and what are the red flags?

Ask for three things: a case study in your product category with named metrics, a trial or paid pilot before any long commitment, and direct access to the designer who will do the work. Red flags are portfolios with no measurable outcomes, contracts longer than three months with no exit, and account managers standing between you and the designer.

What does AI-first UX design actually mean in practice?

AI-first UX design means designing for products where the interface is non-deterministic: the output changes every time. That requires patterns traditional UX does not cover, including confidence and uncertainty states, correction and undo flows, streaming responses, prompt affordances, and graceful failure when the model is wrong. Groto has shipped this for AI dubbing, PR automation and AI hiring platforms.

How do I know your AI and ROI claims are real?

Every metric on this site traces to a named client engagement, not an internal estimate. The 4.9 rating comes from verified Clutch reviews you can read directly. For AI work specifically, ask to see the interaction patterns we shipped, not the visuals, since AI UX quality lives in error and uncertainty states rather than screens.

How does the 7-day free trial work?

Pick a real task from your backlog and Groto delivers it within seven days at no cost and with no card required. You keep the work regardless of whether you continue. The point is to judge us on output from your actual product rather than a curated portfolio.

Can you handle brand identity and marketing design as well as product UX?

Yes, and this is unusual for a product design studio. Groto's 12-person brand team covers brand identity, marketing design, landing pages and design systems alongside product UX. That means your product interface and your marketing site come from one team with one design system, instead of two vendors producing work that does not match.

Do you work across time zones, and how does that work day to day?

Groto's team overlaps at least half a business day with your time zone, so there is a real window for live calls and same-day feedback rather than a 24-hour round trip. We work with clients across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Outside that window, progress moves through async updates, Loom walkthroughs and shared boards, so you always know where a design stands.

How much does a UX design project with Groto cost?

Fixed projects start at US$5,000. Hourly engagements are US$50/hour. Share your brief so we can recommend the right scope.

How quickly can you start, and when will I see the first designs?

You can meet your designer within 24 hours and work starts immediately after. The 7-day free trial delivers a real design task from your actual backlog, not a mockup, so you see output in the first week. For Part-Time and Full-Time plans, a full UX strategy report lands within two weeks.

What happens if I do not like the designer or the work?

Start with the 7-day free trial before paying anything. If the fit is wrong, you walk away at no cost. After that, plans are month-to-month, you can request a different designer at any time, and you can pause for up to three weeks per quarter with credits rolling over. Cancel anytime.

Do I get one designer or a whole team?

You get a dedicated designer as your primary contact, backed by Groto’s 20-person studio. That means one consistent person who knows your product, with specialist support pulled in for research, brand, or development work without a new contract.

How do you measure whether the design actually worked?

Groto ties design work to product metrics agreed before the project starts, typically conversion rate, activation, task completion, and retention. On the IVHQ engagement, that produced a 2.3X conversion rate increase and 1.25X improvement in customer retention. Every engagement begins with a baseline measurement so the change is attributable.

Do you design UX for AI chatbots and conversational tools?

Yes. Groto designs conversational UX for chatbots, assistants, and support tools, covering the parts that break most often: turn-taking and interruption handling, streaming response states, fallback and handoff to a human agent, and tone calibration so the bot does not overpromise. The hard part is not the chat window, it is what happens when the model is confidently wrong.

Can your team handle UX for AI agents and copilot-style products?

Yes. Agentic and copilot products need patterns traditional UX does not cover: showing what the agent is about to do before it acts, permission gates on irreversible actions, human-in-the-loop checkpoints across multi-step tasks, and undo that genuinely reverses state. Groto has shipped copilot and agent interfaces for Camb.ai (AI dubbing) and Pathways (AI hiring). Trust calibration matters more than speed.

Do you help enterprises with UX for AI dashboards and reporting tools?

Yes. Groto designs data-dense enterprise dashboards and reporting tools, including AI-generated insights where the real design problem is explainability: showing why the model surfaced a number, letting analysts drill from summary to source rows, and flagging low-confidence output instead of presenting every figure with equal certainty. Enterprise buyers need an audit trail, not just a chart.

Is Groto a good fit for a B2B SaaS or enterprise product?

Yes. Groto specialises in complex B2B SaaS, enterprise internal tools and AI products, including dashboards, admin panels and data-heavy interfaces where information density matters more than visual polish. Current work spans AI platforms, fintech, healthcare and edtech, with clients across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

What should I look for when choosing a UX design agency, and what are the red flags?

Ask for three things: a case study in your product category with named metrics, a trial or paid pilot before any long commitment, and direct access to the designer who will do the work. Red flags are portfolios with no measurable outcomes, contracts longer than three months with no exit, and account managers standing between you and the designer.

What does AI-first UX design actually mean in practice?

AI-first UX design means designing for products where the interface is non-deterministic: the output changes every time. That requires patterns traditional UX does not cover, including confidence and uncertainty states, correction and undo flows, streaming responses, prompt affordances, and graceful failure when the model is wrong. Groto has shipped this for AI dubbing, PR automation and AI hiring platforms.

How do I know your AI and ROI claims are real?

Every metric on this site traces to a named client engagement, not an internal estimate. The 4.9 rating comes from verified Clutch reviews you can read directly. For AI work specifically, ask to see the interaction patterns we shipped, not the visuals, since AI UX quality lives in error and uncertainty states rather than screens.

How does the 7-day free trial work?

Pick a real task from your backlog and Groto delivers it within seven days at no cost and with no card required. You keep the work regardless of whether you continue. The point is to judge us on output from your actual product rather than a curated portfolio.

Can you handle brand identity and marketing design as well as product UX?

Yes, and this is unusual for a product design studio. Groto's 12-person brand team covers brand identity, marketing design, landing pages and design systems alongside product UX. That means your product interface and your marketing site come from one team with one design system, instead of two vendors producing work that does not match.

Do you work across time zones, and how does that work day to day?

Groto's team overlaps at least half a business day with your time zone, so there is a real window for live calls and same-day feedback rather than a 24-hour round trip. We work with clients across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Outside that window, progress moves through async updates, Loom walkthroughs and shared boards, so you always know where a design stands.