Master’s thesis – Contextual visualization and extension marketplace design for ABB Crealizer

Technology, Data & Digital · Product & Design · UI/UX Design · Data Visualization · Software Engineering

In short

This master's thesis at ABB in Västerås, Sweden, focuses on designing and evaluating a contextual visualization for ABB Crealizer applications, exploring its potential as a reusable extension within a future marketplace. The role involves user research, prototype development, and defining marketplace concepts.

Responsibilities

Explore the selected Crealizer™ application, its available data, intended audience, and visualization value.
Interview ABB experts and external users to understand how application results are interpreted, demonstrated, and shared.
Review relevant visualization and storytelling approaches, then define design requirements and testable novel visualization concepts.
Translate the application’s data into a contextual interactive view.
Build a browser-based proof of concept that helps the intended audience understand the value of the Crealizer™ application and its results.
Evaluate and improve design of the proof of concept with representative users or domain experts.
Define and prototype how the visualization function could work as a configurable extension for other Crealizer™ applications.
Develop a preliminary marketplace design concept covering organization and discovery, extension information and trust cues, configuration, and contributor sharing flows.
Document findings, design implications, and technical know-how; and present results to ABB stakeholders.
Follow ABB’s health, safety, information security, and research integrity requirements.

Requirements

Motivated master’s students with a background in interaction design, human–computer interaction, data visualization, media technology, computer science, or related engineering studies.
Ability to plan user research and translate findings into clear design requirements.
Experience building and testing interactive prototypes, including front-end development.
Interest in turning technical data into clear visualizations that help different audiences understand an application’s value.
Systems thinking and sound scoping - ability to connect one visualization to reusable system capabilities, collaborate with technical experts, and define a feasible thesis scope.
Interest in industrial automation.

Desired Qualifications

Prior knowledge of drive engineering is an advantage but not required.
Use of AI-assisted design or development tools.

Benefits

Start: Jan-June 2027, approximately six months of project work, exact dates to be agreed
30 ECTS/högskolepoäng (hp)
Place: ABB CRC (Västerås), with possibility of hybrid work
ABB may cover the accommodation in Västerås

Skills

Data VisualizationInteraction DesignUX DesignFrontend DevelopmentHuman-Computer Interaction

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