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A cloud design platform where building engineers design, calculate and price a system in one place.

ServicesBranding, UX, design systems, interface design, SaaS

The path to the mark

Round one: nine hand-drawn directions for the Thrux name
Round two: nine refined marks, among them an open cube
Round four: the cube in three colorways

Color

Brand
Purple#60327ATeal#02D1C1Sea#049688Deep teal#056B5E
Action
Select#9E59F7Pass#60F958Fail#FC5656Warn#FFD400
Interface greys

Splash screens

Options
Splash option: the Thrux Electrical lockup over purple blueprint linesSplash option: the lockup beside an isometric city blockSplash option: the colour lockup beside a line sketch of a tower
The brief, 2017

No single piece of software linked a building’s architectural constraints, its design specs and what it would cost.

Electrical engineers were working across Excel, SKM PTW, EasyPower and Revit, and redoing their calculations every time a client changed their mind.

The user flow

The project lifecycle

Define the project, build its architectural model and start from a baseline design scheme.

Create, change and redistribute equipment, branch the changes worth keeping into new schemes, and clear the flags, pricing and value-engineering checks. Studies and riser analysis report before anything issues.

Submit a branch as a new issuance, assess what changed since the last one, and produce the documents: links to AutoCAD and Revit, printed schedules.

The owner and architect review. Revisions loop back into the scheme; acceptance closes the project.

Anatomy of the workspace

The one-line itself, with a navigator map and a radial menu on whatever’s selected.

The workspaces down the side: one-line, riser, schedule, architectural model, flags, studies, codes, pricing.

Clients, standards and design guidelines, import and export, and the project, issuance and scheme you’re in.

The tools for this workspace, down to the equipment you can drop in: utility, generator, transformer, panelboard, busduct.

Everything about the selection, docked: equipment, load and cable properties.

The checks and the cost, docked and live, updating as the design changes.

Where the app stands, and which version.

Home: back to the Launchpad.

The finished one-line workspace

Seven rounds of the one-line

ClientsStandardsDesign GuidelinesImportExportViewPrintHelpMerk PharmaceuticalsIssuance 1Base REV 1 SchemeSave
One-line, screen 1 of 1
Mechanical riser, screen 1 of 5Mechanical riser, screen 2 of 5Mechanical riser, screen 3 of 5Mechanical riser, screen 4 of 5Mechanical riser, screen 5 of 5
Schedules, screen 1 of 4Schedules, screen 2 of 4Schedules, screen 3 of 4Schedules, screen 4 of 4
Architectural elements, screen 1 of 6Architectural elements, screen 2 of 6Architectural elements, screen 3 of 6Architectural elements, screen 4 of 6Architectural elements, screen 5 of 6Architectural elements, screen 6 of 6
Load studies, screen 1 of 2Load studies, screen 2 of 2
Pricing, screen 1 of 3Pricing, screen 2 of 3Pricing, screen 3 of 3
Change tracking, screen 1 of 8Change tracking, screen 2 of 8Change tracking, screen 3 of 8Change tracking, screen 4 of 8Change tracking, screen 5 of 8Change tracking, screen 6 of 8Change tracking, screen 7 of 8Change tracking, screen 8 of 8
Roadmap, screen 1 of 4Roadmap, screen 2 of 4Roadmap, screen 3 of 4Roadmap, screen 4 of 4
ReadyOne-lineVersion 1.0.0.5

Pick a workspace on the left; the number is how many screens it has. Click the canvas or the dots to step through them. On the one-line, click any pulsing equipment.