An Exercise In Innovation

Space-Factory is a project management software tool built for hardware & the defense industry. Very much an exercise in innovation, the discovery process was quite involved as the research required a deep industry of opportunities in existing project management platforms.
Below are a few deliverables made on our ~3-month long engagement.

Competitor & Inspiration Analysis

We usually begin our process by asking a few key questions, among these are: "what's the industry standard?" & "what do they have in common?"

This process was quite involved as we first had to take "feature inventory" of all existing project management platforms; from there, we interviewed stakeholders in the defense/aerospace sector to learn which key, or needed, features were missing.

User Market Research Survey

This particular project involved an unusual amount of market research & follow up. The secret sauce is in first discovering what features are missing from current tools; this required us to consistently engage defense/aerospace employees. Since this is a fairly-secretive sector by design, the learning curve in needs & wants was unusually high.

UX Wireframes

Once we have a grounded understanding of all business requirements, we map them out through UX Wireframes. The main point of this exercise is to triple-check all possible edge-cases & user paths; with every view & overlay planned out, we now know exactly how many designs are required.

Greyscale Mockups

With our UX Wireframes finished, we have an inventory of exactly every view, overlay & state needed.

In order to first focus in on an intuitive UX & information hierarchy, we move on to greyscale mockups. Once completed, we circled back to survey responders - sitting through user interviews to test our UX assumptions.

Branding & UI Kit

No brand is complete without a unifying set of branding & UI elements. With all greyscale mock ups now finished, it's time to make them stand out with a cohesive set of elements.

High-Fidelity Mockups

No brand is complete without a unifying set of branding & UI elements. With all greyscale mock ups now finished, it's time to make them stand out with a cohesive set of elements.

Seed Round Deck

No brand is complete without a unifying set of branding & UI elements. With all greyscale mock ups now finished, it's time to make them stand out with a cohesive set of elements.