Mor RavidSenior Product Designer

Making a complex
security
dashboard
actually usable

As the product's sole designer, I redesigned CHEQ's marketing-security dashboard around complex filtering, threat data, and real-time blocking, and created its first design system from scratch.

Role
Product Designer
Duration
2021–2023
Product
CHEQ Acquisition
Focus
DashboardData VisualizationDesign System
CHEQ Acquisition Dashboard

CHEQ Acquisition Dashboard

The problem

Everyone had the data,
Nobody used the dashboard.

The Paid Marketing dashboard existed, but it wasn't doing its job:

Core challenge

Making a complex filter system feel simple

Filtering was the heart of the redesign. The PRD called for eleven interconnected filters, each multi-select with its own searchable list.

The hard part was that they all affected each other and the whole dashboard at once — so it had to stay powerful, but still be easy to understand and use.

Highlights from the PRD — filters, options and how each reshapes the dashboard

Highlights from the PRD — every filter, its options, and how it reshaped the rest of the dashboard.

I explored three directions before landing on the final one.

Draft 1 — The existing filters bar

It couldn't hold eleven filters, and there was no room for each filter's nested settings.

Draft 1 — existing filter bar

Draft 2 — Drawer

Nested settings for each filter and how they affect each other were confusing.

Draft 2 — centered modal

Draft 3 — Pop Up · The winning direction

Each filter expands in place to reveal its nested options and searchable list, with a running count of what's selected, so even a complex, multi-level filter stays easy to read and control. This became the final design and was later added to the design system as a new component.

Final — side drawer with cascading, searchable filters

Making data legible

Threats that make sense at a glance

The new dashboard needed to indicate both high-level threat groups insights and detailed breakdowns of specific threat types. Users had difficulty understanding relationships between groups and types, so my goal was to design widgets that communicate hierarchy and prioritize key insights.

Four explorations of the threat groups and types widgets

Some exploration I tried to show the relation between threat groups and types.

The winning option pairs the groups and types in two linked widgets that share one color language, so the hierarchy reads instantly and users can drill into any type in place.

The final threat groups and top threat types widgets

The outcome

Everything, finally in one place

Every widget got the data visualization that fit it best, so each answered its question at a glance. I solved the color challenges with one consistent color language across the dashboard, keeping threat groups and types readable and connected — then handed it off with components, states, the filter flow, and multiple resolutions.

The final, unified CHEQ dashboard

The final, unified dashboard.