● 2025 TEAM: ADBERRIES ROLE: UX LEAD
SeCore: Security Assessment Methodology
Designing the security evaluation platform from scratch.
SeCore is a security assessment methodology and platform that enables organizations to quantitatively evaluate and benchmark their security posture. Through data-driven insights, it supports informed decision-making and helps define effective mitigation strategies. Adberries team worked on the branding, user experience design, and development of the application. As part of the Adberries team, I led the end-to-end UX and UI design of the platform.
A key part of my role was to translate the client’s complex initial vision into a clear, intuitive digital experience. The process was highly collaborative, involving a series of workshops with SeCore to align on core goals, refine initial concepts, and structure the information architecture. Together, we crafted a streamlined web experience that clearly reflects SeCore’s business priorities.
Following the product launch, our collaboration with SeCore has continued, with a focus on iterative UX improvements and responsive updates to support evolving user needs.
Strategy & Research
Understanding The Subject
Security assurance is a complex domain that demands a deep understanding of technical workflows, compliance requirements, and user expectations. I had to research the online offerings and try several products to get a better understanding of the processes and user expectations.
Competitor Research
We benchmarked leading tools in the market to evaluate functionality, user flow efficiency, and visual clarity. This informed several key design decisions and highlighted opportunities for SeCore to provide a more intuitive and role-specific experience.
Defining the Product Vision with Stakeholders
Through a series of collaborative workshops, we co-developed the information architecture and defined the full scope of the project.
Card Sorting Exercise
This activity helped us streamline the information architecture and navigation structure to better align with stakeholder priorities and user expectations.
User Research
We conducted internal research with stakeholders and their colleagues, experts in security assurance. Their insights revealed opportunities to improve the product and guided us in defining the minimum viable feature set needed to start with the competitive product.
Challenge
The main challenge was to design a complex product entirely from scratch and translate the client’s vision into intuitive mockups that would be easy to use and understand, not only by the creators of the methodology but also by clients seeking to assess the security of their products.
App Flow
By combining ideation, competitor analysis, and stakeholder interviews, we identified user behavior patterns that shaped the initial information architecture and app flows.

App Design
I focused on clarity to deliver a seamless experience through complex security assurance workflows, tailoring the design to the needs of different user roles. The work was delivered in sprints and structured in phases — starting with the core security assessment functionality, followed by user roles and advanced reporting features.





Key Features
The feature set includes role-specific dashboards, customizable assessment templates, assessment tracking tools, and centralized reporting




User & Permissions Management


Organisation & Subscription Plans


Client Management


Advanced Reporting & Tools


Public Website
We have also been working on the SeCore public website, which currently serves as a starting point for SeCore clients.


What’s next?
We continue to work closely with the SeCore team to develop enhancements to the app, while they conduct testing and build out the database.
Let's work together
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mary.kolomenskaya@gmail.com