UNSW’s Digital Grid Futures Institute (DGFI) were finding it difficult to effectively inform the general public, other faculties and institutes, about what a digital grid encompasses, the technology involved within the energy transition to a digital grid, as well as how equipped DGFI was to tackle the various complexities involved in such a transformation.

DGFI commissioned TwoCollaborate to develop an interactive visual model that would help them explain the future of digital grid technology for a variety of audiences.

TwoCollaborate conducted a short 2 hour workshop with DGFI’s leadership team, in order to extrapolate the core purpose and structure of the presentation, the various technologies and complexities associated with them, as well as the overall style, look & feel of the presentation. Using a variety of activities aimed to stimulate creativity, whilst also honing in on a solution, the DGFI team aligned on a specific vision for their interactive presentation.

After the workshop, TwoCollaborate’s lead designer created a workshop report that provided an overall summary on the various elements and information that DGFI wanted to include in the presentation. Once final approval was given, various sketches were made until an initial prototype was created and submitted to DGFI. There were 2 more subsequent rounds of design amendments before the sketch was approved and the final render could begin. High quality renders were created digitally using the Adobe suite before being inserted into the PowerPoint file - followed by a slew of custom hyperlinks and animations.

The presentation delivered beyond client expectations, with the sleek, professionally developed PowerPoint being utilised at trade shows, conferences, as well as an investment pitch with UNSW’s leadership. The presentation also attracted other institutes at UNSW to request for their own interactive visual model to be created.