Monika Krzesiak
Work

COOLCITY

Climate adaptation solutions

Climate adaptation solutions — designing a platform that helps city planners and local governments understand, visualise, and act on urban heat and flood risk data.

Climate techEcosystemSaaSData products
COOLCITY Index displayed on a laptop with a map of European cities

Context

COOLCITY is a climate adaptation ecosystem for European municipalities,
combining a public website, visual identity and three connected digital tools:
CC Index, CC View and CC Design.

Together, the tools take municipalities from understanding climate risk, through investigating local environmental conditions, towards exploring possible interventions and planning decisions.

COOLCITY Index product interfaceCOOLCITY View product interfaceCOOLCITY Design product interface

Challenge

The challenge was to turn very different layers — climate data, geospatial analysis, public communication and planning support — into one coherent product family.

The tools needed to serve both municipal decision-makers and expert users without oversimplifying the underlying data.

Circular city comparison visualization and a map of European cities

My role + impact

I shaped the experience across the entire ecosystem — from brand strategy and the public website to product architecture and UX/UI for CC Index, CC View and CC Design. My role was to create a shared logic and visual language that could work across communication, maps, data visualisation and planning tools.

Brand strategyWebsiteProduct architectureUX/UI
COOLCITY data panels for environmental indicators and planning scenarios

Outcome

The result is a connected product ecosystem that takes municipalities from climate benchmarking through spatial diagnosis to planning — with one consistent experience across public communication and data-heavy tools.

Responsive COOLCITY mobile interface screens
COOLCITY regional and urban climate data map examples