Project Summary
This project was the main area of my focus during my time at GTRI. It was a multi-year effort to create a Mission Planning interface for the United States Air Force. I wore various hats early on in my time on the project, however my role primarily ended up being to serve as a Visual Designer for an “MVP” version of the latest manifestation of the product. Our team was hoping this could incorporate some of the previous work we had completed, catalyze the completion of a viable MVP, and serve as a foundation into more complex pieces of the project.
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This project had been ongoing for several years when I joined the team. However, because advancements in technology and leadership turnover kept outpacing development…there was very little progress towards a tangible deliverable. Additionally, the project began as an effort for the Navy, evolved into a joint effort between the Navy and the Air Force, and then devolved into separate efforts so that each branch could create their “ideal” product.
Just onboarding to the current status of the project took nearly a month. As stated above, our team decided the most effective strategy would be to try and design and develop an “MVP” of the product so we could draw a line in the sand with something tangible to work out from. We worked through previous iterations of the wireframes and updated/streamlined them to work with our interface. For this stage of the project, I worked closely with a few co-workers to update the wireframes while simultaneously designing a look/feel for the new interface that would modernize it.
We ended up producing and presenting these hi-res mockups to the client and getting approval to keep heading in the direction we’d started. We were working with around 7 development teams and they requested we utilize a standard look/feel (they suggested Google Material) so that all of the components could be standardized across development teams. In the later phase of this project I primarily worked to create a central database of all the Google Material components we were using as a reference point for the development teams, update all of our current mockups into this Google Material aesthetic, create new mockups based off, and make sure everything functioned on a responsive grid.