NCX Carbon Credit Map — Vic de Aranzeta Portfolio

Improving how businesses buy carbon credits with a near real time map

Company

NCX

Project

Carbon credit map (2022)

Role

Design Lead (Founding designer)

Responsibilities

Data Visualization, Content Strategy, Visual Design

Industry

Climate, Finance

At NCX, I led design for a carbon credit supply map to help buyers easily identify available inventory by state. With a tight deadline and an engineer new to Mapbox, I took a "think big, design small" approach—creating rapid prototypes while she explored technical capabilities.

This map showed landowner generated carbon credits available for purchase across the United States. Beyond that, it also tells the story of the landowners and the how NCX was supporting their land goals. Users can view enrolled forested acres by state to see supply available in their local areas.

$XXX K

first geospecific deal was supported by the carbon credits map

Mid-implementation, everything went sideways. Mapbox couldn't handle our planned interactions, visuals looked completely different than expected, and scope creep expanded. Our engineer was overwhelmed learning a new platform under pressure. I partnered with our PM and marketing to redefine a tightly scoped MVP, separating need-to-haves from nice-to-haves, collaborating closely with our engineer to simplify interactions while keeping design quality at the forefront.

We launched two weeks late and it wasn't our original vision, but the map helped close our first two geo-specific deals — real revenue in the pipeline. This project taught me that scope creep can derail you, but staying collaborative and making smart tradeoffs can still deliver meaningful business impact.

San Francisco, CA