Scandinavian Airlines GPS

November 2008

This project was part of a series of graphic design exercices run during a month with Propeller, a Stockholm based design consultancy. The final deliverable was a GPS interface we worked on individually during two weeks.

I used the exercise to get to know After Effects and play around with the animations and transitions of the different elements of the interface.

Analyzing the Nokia Tablet

During the first days we worked in groups and analyzed the Nokia Internet Tablet n810 together with Joachim Falck-Hansen and Tae-yeol Lim. We only focused on the GPS application and listed down all the aspects we considered made it quite complex to understand and make it work.

The interface of the GPS application was so different from the phone's OS that it was really hard to make it work for the first time. Lack of feedback, ambiguous icons...

Paper prototypes and user tests

At this stage we decided to simplify the interface and try the different concepts we thought would work better. This course was made to present our results individually, but we decided to test different ideas together to have a wider picture of what was easier to understand for the users and work individually later on.

We run several user tests with paper prototypes and asked all the users to perform the same task while thinking aloud. After collecting their opinions, each of us started working individually.

Final concept

Since most of the time people don't really use or need a GPS application, this concept was approached as an additional service you purchase with your flight tickets.

The application would be very cheap since it only contains the points of information of the place you are travelling to and it would be accessible during your stay in that city.

Its interface is very basic and it would give instructions on how to use it when first launched to make the learning process as easy as possible.