Forecast Planning Dashboard

Supply Chain Informatics for Materials Planning

A web-based tool that folds complex data visualization for a wide range of sources so that Materials Planners can collect historical patterns as well as predict future challenges.

 

Participation

  • Apple Design Sprint

  • Product Design Iteration

  • Data Visualization

Service

  • Prototypes

  • Mockups

  • Wireframes

 

Boeing

Jeppesen | Digital Ascent

A worldwide aeronautical manufacturer and provider of transportation products.

Presentation

Challenge

Challenge

Analysts with the task of providing aviation components across worldwide clients in order that they can be maintained and comply with local regulations can be a stressful job, add to the fact that this high-stress task can often include a wide range of sources and formats. Recent world-wide events have made the need for robust management of supply chains critical.

Solution

Create a single unified source for content while learning how analysts operate and gain success. Then finding ways with varied sources, it might be housed under a single platform that follows a unified user experience. One that is easier to use and more reliable.  Most of these already exist elsewhere, and so the trick is to simply overlay a unified design kit with an eye toward retaining what is important to our users.

Wireframes

Design Iteration

Starting with high-level understanding of use cases and workflows, we can start to layout an experience while folding in follow-up input from subject matter experts.

 

Content Durability

We’re working with real content now, to make sure that the design that’s beginning to form can handle the level of complexity that an analyst must succeed with. That often means going above and beyond simple presentation.

 

Good Heuristics

Once we have the content and the behavior figured out, we have to begin to overlay design standards and heuristics into the product so that we can see the product in a professional-level user experience. Then can often mean folding and rewiring standards into a product that is sensical to our personas.

 

Learning what Success Should Look Like

Bringing elements together under a single user experience starts with understanding what users need and how they use it today. As a part of the conversation, we’re penciling in what we think we hear while capturing their reaction and feedback for future improvements.

Real World Capability

As the product idea grows, we start to add real content to make sure that the design can handle the content. In the case of this project, it was an extremely difficult task, involving learning and verifying accuracy with subject matter experts.

Real World Performance

With the information architecture hammered out and the manner in which success is accomplished, the final task of overlaying a visual presentation can bring the designer into the incredible state of looking and feeling real.

 

Services

  • Design Sprint

  • Rapid Prototyping

Software

  • Sketch

  • InVision Freehand

  • Miro

Data Sources

  • PowerBi

  • Tableau

  • SPM