GaugeUser Experience & Interface Design
Gauge hired KA+A in the spring of 2010 to help design and develop the software portion of a telematics solution targeted towards companies managing large fleets of off-road vehicles. The software, combined with data-collecting telematics hardware, allows fleet operators to monitor, report on, and manage, in real-time, everything from overall fleet maintenance, to the percentage of time a specific vehicle spends idling.
Increasing competitive and regulatory pressures had created significant demand in the marketplace for Gauge's suite of solutions, and one of our mandates was to move through the design process quickly. However, given the massive amounts of diverse, realtime data the system would need to handle, it was equally as important to make sure that the decisions we made were well thought out, and would provide a flexible framework for future development.
After several working sessions with Gauge stakeholders and the engineering team, we kicked off the design process by creating a series of user-focused requirements documents. Those documents were translated into a collection of comprehensive wireframes that captured key interface and interaction points that would be needed in the first version of the product.
To complete the project, we developed a set of fully realized HTML/CSS prototypes that are currently being integrated into the beta version of the application by Gauge's engineering team. KA+A is excited to be apart of phase two of application development, which will kick off in fall 2010, and will involve the creation of real-time console views for vehicles, and a comprehensive reporting system.
