Sample slide from a project for the design of an aircraft docking guidance and control system. These are electronic displays that perform the same duties as aircraft marshallers who guide the aircraft into their parking bays using wands.
The slides capture the usage scenarios as a step-by-step storyboard. The black and yellow tiles show the proposed design variants, and their behaviour at each step in the story. Red and yellow were the only permissible colours, thanks to requirements governing visibility at a distance.
The tiles on the bottom right show how competitors' products behave in the same stage of the user story, allowing for comparison with proposed designs.
Aircraft Docking Guidance System (2010)
Aircraft visual docking guidance systems (VDGS) are electronic versions of the aircraft marshaller - the folks who wave wands to guide aircraft into their parking bays. Honeywell's airports business has a product line that sells docking guidance systems to airports over the world. This project involved the design of a new VDGS, and my role was to design the UI for the giant LED display that pilots look at when steering their aircraft to the gate.
The images above are from slides I created at the end of my research and conceptualization phase of the project. It combines information from different sources - interviews with pilots, secondary research on competitor products, review of ICAO regulations, etc - to create a user story / step by step scenario that illustrates the behaviour of the proposed design concepts, as well as a comparison of competitor products in similar situations.
