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PONDERA

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Industry — SaaS AI analytics

uxui / research / product design

2024

Pondera

AI Product Analytics

Dashboard interface for Pondera AI showing user profile, data insights, and chat feature for financial analysis.

PonderaAI is an AI product analytics platform that helps teams turn product data into decisions, making advanced analysis accessible for small businesses and busy product and marketing teams.

The challenge

Complex tooling, fragmented workflows, and change resistance made it hard to convert raw analytics into simple actions, so we focused on four solution pillars:

  1. Accessible intelligence: plain language, guided flows.
  2. Conversational guidance: answers and next steps in chat.
  3. Transparency: inspect the data behind each suggestion.
  4. Focus at a glance: key metrics surfaced in clean dashboard
Desktop screen showing Pondera data analysis app with sidebar menu and central message saying 'Let the Data Speak'.

Discovery

After the discovery process, we found small teams drowning in data, hopping between tools, and waiting too long for trustworthy answers. Our goal was to let a marketer or PM ask a question, get a clear next step, and review the supporting data in one place. This focus on reducing noise, shortening time to insight, and unifying workflows directly shaped the product strategy and design.

User interface showing a marketing case study with sections for Need Statement, Pain Points, Empathy Map, and Big Ideas including an AI impact-feasibility graph.

Chat Insights

Teams were losing time jumping across tools to piece together an answer. Insight chat lets a marketer or PM ask a plain-language question and get a clear next step backed by product data. It reduces noise, shortens time to insight, and removes the need to translate analytics into action.

Sign-up screen on a digital device with options to create a Pondera account using Google, Apple, or email and password.
User interface of Pondera platform showing chat history and a conversation about average active users with a bar chart partially visible.

Chat Persona

Patterns in behavior were hard to see without deep analysis. Persona chat uses profiles fed by the product’s own data and inputs on the platform, mirroring real segments so teams can explore who is doing what and why it matters without manual analysis. It keeps exploration grounded in actual users and turns it into a guided conversation that surfaces opportunities faster.

Chat interface displaying a conversation where Alex discusses optimizing financial onboarding, recommendations, forecasts, and notifications, accompanied by a gauge showing 3.70% with a -0.5% change.
Chat interface to choose a persona showing profile cards for Alex Cruz and Maria Silva, both Financial Analysts.
Pondera chat interface with user Alex displaying Insights with Alex feature and options for User Journey, Audience, and Event analysis.

Dashboards

Stakeholders needed a quick read on what changed and what to do next. Dashboards curate only the essential metrics and trends so teams can spot movement at a glance and follow through with the right action. Less scrolling, more clarity.

Dashboard interface of Pondera app showing user insights with 277 active users today, a 5% increase, and signup funnel data including 4,870 ad impressions.
Dashboard showing signup funnel metrics, user activity overview, churn rate, and top 5 feature adoption with user counts and progress bars.
Dashboard overview displaying user activity, signup funnel, churn rate, frequency of signups, and top features adoption.

Visual identity foundations

The product needed to feel clear and approachable at every touchpoint. Logo, color, and typography work together to express clarity and accessibility. The visual system keeps screens consistent and readable, lowering cognitive load so users can focus on decisions instead of deciphering the interface.

Purple app icon with a stylized white lowercase 'p' and arrow shape inside a rounded square.
Pondera.ai logo with a stylized letter P inside a rounded blue square.
Color and font palette for Pondera.ai featuring Schibsted Grotesk and Inter fonts, purple shades with hex codes #5575FF, #322CA0, and white, plus a glowing app icon and UI elements.

UI Kit

20+ components were crafted to serve real workflows across the product, with tokens for type, color, spacing, and elevation keeping everything consistent from concept to handoff.

Three overlapping UI design system screens showing typography styles, color palette with swatches, and shadow components.
Ponder Design System UI components including various styles of buttons, badges in multiple colors, dropdown menus with different input states, checkboxes in various states, and toggle switches in on and off positions.
Ponder Design System UI components showcase with headers, input fields, empty state icons, tooltips, and user persona cards featuring Alex Cruz.

Outcome

A cohesive concept and interface that lower the barrier to AI‑driven analysis, helping non‑technical teams move from data to decisions with confidence.