With a digital design direction – Terma took the first steps to a flexible user interface platform. It needs to secure a fast and effective development and state the user experience across future digital solutions and offerings
Even within specialised industries, users are demanding great, effective and value creating design. The traditional systems and user interfaces are on their way out, and new tendencies play a role for future users and consumers, who is grown up with I-phones, tables and great design. In relation with the launch of a new product and new digital solutions, Terma wanted a more user-friendly design direction.. Terma is the biggest defence company in Denmark, and is leading within radar and mission critical technologies.
Terma works continuously by being ahead of high technological solutions. As in many other industries, customer and user needs are changing in accordance with the trends on the digital area.To differentiate own products from the competitors, there is a raising demand to recognition and brand-positioning.
Terma has developed a new design direction within their C-Series product portfolio, which should ensure user friendliness and a strong brand DNA. One thing is direction, but something else is to ensure the direction is implemented across relevant products and that the chosen design direction creates a coherent experience across the portfolio. Terma was establishing contact to Little Studio & Zimplifi to start the development of their foundation for user interfaces, which could be used across digital products and solutions.
PROCESS
With the foundation in the developed design direction for the product portfolio of the C-Series, Terma took the next step to further develop design components, icons, building blocks for the future interaction design.
In cooperation with a cross organisational project team with software developers, architects, & designers, Zimplifi and LittleStudio developed a User interface Library.
The Library includes descriptions and specifications for components, like screens, menu-structure, specification for colors choice, size of text and icons.
The library was tested ongoing and need to work as common guidelines for development and design, so a continuously and coherent implementation will take place.
RESULT
- A User Interface Library with described principles, guidelines and components for development of future digital design.
- A User Interface library tested and tried out across the product portfolio to ensure flexibility in the design and interaction of components.
- Faster development time due to reuse of components and across future products and solutions within digitalisation.