In the old version 1.0, the “Carbon Emission Factor Database” provided a query for carbon emission factor data for enterprises and individuals, which facilitated carbon verification and individual carbon footprint calculation; the “Carbon Market Inquiry” provided various information of carbon trading pilots, which allowed everyone to keep up with the times; the “Quota Calculator” helped companies in different industries estimate quotas to avoid risks. However, as the data collected became larger and more specific, the original framework became more and more unreasonable. We would like to provide an interface to include more information while making it messy and bloated. The increasing data has also led to a slower search speed. Specifically, it took more than 1 minute for only one search, and the appropriate interactive feedback was not laid, making the user experience worse and worse. Moreover, the overall design style and visual style have become more and more inconsistent with the trend. Previously, the exquisite and clean page style became obsolete.

As a result, Carbonstop made a bold revision!

Firstly, redeveloping the functions. After many times of brainstorming, we first listed some new requirements, and reconstructed the functional structure of the product after a lot of user review and a large number of user surveys. We reorganized the requirements and functions and focused on re-developing the carbon emission factor database function module. In the new version, we integrated the same kind of data and presented it to users in the form of cards, greatly enhancing the relationship between different data and improved the diversity of search results. Some of the search results now show a variety of greenhouse gas emission factors, emission factors in multiple life cycle stages or different fuel parameters, so that users can better compare the differences between various types of data. 

Secondly, we reconstructed the back-end database of the “carbon emission factor database”, and streamlined the search code, optimized the search logic, and the search speed increased.

Thirdly, the original "Carbon Market Enquiry" will be revised to "Carbon Encyclopedia" in the near future (the function has not yet been launched), from both the domestic and international carbon markets, and presenting the information in the form of an encyclopedia article, not only for inspection, but also for users to edit.

In terms of visual style, the dark blue in the past is too deep and too heavy, which is not suitable for the characteristic of going with the investigation. The new version adopts a light "sky blue" and uses most of the white space that conforms to the current design trend, highlighting the sense of quality.

Carbonstop News Centre

2018-12-10