Building a cross-platform product experience with a single codebase.

The completed work for the process instruments division of a multinational design and manufacturing company involved developing a universal language for their product suite, which included an on-site touchscreen interface, IoT, and desktop applications for remote monitoring.

Project Challenges

The initial ask for this project was to create a unified design language across all the new product interfaces. To do that, we needed to start with the existing interfaces, learning as much as possible about how to design the interface to work for the real world. We conducted thorough research, reviewing existing user manuals, engineering diagrams, and any artifact we could find that would tell us more about the existing experiences and how we could improve them.

Project Wins

After gathering as much information as possible, it was time to create the new experience. We made a single codebase that can run on the human-machine interfaces at the plants, as well as on a web application that is accessible remotely from anywhere in the world. I leaned heavily into an easy-to-read high contrast dark mode, using a cohesive, punchy color palette that is both brand-progressive and reminiscent of the client's current visual identity.