Problem
Create a feature that allows our clients to calculate the energy efficiency of their water networks, and compare them with other networks in the app.
Context
This project started with a surprise meeting on a random Wednesday. I got a ping from the sales team, asking me to join a call with a potential client the next day, and was given a couple of recordings of the client’s previous meetings to get up to speed. I also had a PDF with formulas like this one:

Fun fact: the PDF used low resolution images for the formulas, so I used ChatGPT to translate the image of the formula to LaTeX, which I then pasted into an online LaTeX editor to get a high resolution version of it that I could screenshot for this website.
I spent the rest of the day watching recordings, reading transcripts and the PDF, and having an express meeting with one of our hydraulic engineers, who explained the formulas to me.
The next day, I joined the call with the client, got some very good ideas from listening to them, and by the end of the day I had a rough sketch of the plugin we were going to build:

Solution
Calculating the actual energy efficiency of a network in terms our customers want to see (money, basically) is not trivial for multiple reasons. Instead, I came up with an idea to calculate a unit-less energy efficiency score for their water networks, similar to what you see in sport watches. This would allow our customers to compare their networks with each other, and with other networks in the app, to hopefully motivate them to improve their score.
Once I validated the idea with our hydraulic engineer and our sales team, I started working on a static mockup of the feature on Figma: