Oscar Yankee

Wings Companion App

About

The Oscar Yankee product, Wings, is a flight school management software that makes day to day operations a much more streamlined process. An easier and faster way to work whilst everything is still documented and maintained meticulously. While their flagship product does work cross platforms, they wanted to build an app that worked with the product instead of just being the product. A companion to help streamline on the go processes and make certain features much easier to use on handheld devices.

NOTICE: Certain images has been blurred as the project has not yet been released.

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Know you customers first

When designing any product, they way it looks only counts for so much if it doesn’t resonate with the target users or feels intuitive for people in general. That is why User Experience research needs to be conducted. When we know the users, the way they think and how they tend to use similar products, then we have a baseline to start our design. While a good User Interface design draws users to the product, only good User Experience keeps them using it.

Work with the data

First step was conduction user research. I started about knowing the market, who needs the products the company makes, who is using Wings and who uses our competitors instead. Then it was time to know the individuals. By conducting interviews and collecting general data I could create personas based of the information given, so the design process was more focused.

Decide on features

Every app, as well as many digital products needs to start somewhere and with the collected data, documented experience of user’s application of the existing products and the customers wishes taken into consideration, it was possible to create a theoretical user journey for the companion app.

Wireframes

Wireframes then started being build. Focus on the fundamental layout and the first steps a new user would experience. Already here multiple iterations were made and gradually some UI was designed to make sure all features build later was following the brand set. Elements was changed to fit the company and fitted to be modern and professional.

To Mockups

As the company was working with an agile framework, teamwork made the design process more fluid and quickly many alternative designs and iterations was made, making the design evolve to an amazing state. From one week to another a stage became a wireframe, to a full on animated and interactable prototype.

The Prototypes

I made sure to create these prototypes with error security. Showing the team and product owner, what would happen in case of user error and what would happen if the user cancelled an action or did something accidentally, so when the developers looked at my designs they can plan for such events.