Metarsul: a new experience for aviation weather information
Fteam took part in the full rebuild of the Metarsul app, including the new layout and the development of V2, reorganizing an experience in which information needs to be found quickly and clearly.
Weather information applied to a sensitive operational routine
Metarsul is an application for accessing weather information relevant to aviation. The product brings together different sources and resources in an experience used for lookup and monitoring.
When an application concentrates many types of information, the UX/UI challenge stops being just about aesthetics. Hierarchy, readability and navigation need to help the user quickly identify what matters.
In operational-use scenarios, a confusing interface increases cognitive effort and search time. Reorganizing the experience is therefore part of the product’s own efficiency.
How do you redesign an application without losing the density of information it needs to deliver?
Technical products often accumulate functions over time. That growth can make navigation heavier and make it harder to read important data.
At Metarsul, the rebuild needed to create a new version of the app, reorganizing layout and experience without reducing the usefulness of the solution.
The work required looking at the journey as an information system, not just as a sequence of screens.
Rebuilding the layout and application for the V2 launch
Fteam worked on the full rebuild of the application, including the layout and the development of the new version.
The UX/UI team reorganized the interface to create a more consistent experience, while development turned this new structure into a functional product.
This kind of project shows the advantage of connecting design and engineering: experience decisions can be evaluated considering the application’s actual behavior.
The role of UX/UI in applications with a lot of information
Hierarchy
Organizing what needs to appear first and what can stay at secondary levels.
Navigation
Reducing the effort needed to reach the most-used information.
Consistency
Creating interface patterns that help the user learn the product.
Readability
Working on contrast, organization and layout to make interpretation easier.
Integration with development
Designing with an eye toward how the flows will actually be implemented.
A new version built on a reorganized experience
The project resulted in the rebuild of the application for the V2 launch, connecting the new layout and development into a single effort.
More than modernizing appearance, the case demonstrates UX/UI applied to a product that needs to organize different pieces of information into a lookup routine.
UX/UI is the organization of complexity
Systems and applications can work technically and still demand too much effort from the people who use them.
Fteam works on UX/UI to reorganize journeys, flows and interfaces, always connecting the experience to the real context of the operation and to what development can deliver.
When should you redesign a system’s experience?
- When the product has accumulated features and become hard to navigate.
- When users take too long to find important information.
- When the interface has no consistent patterns across modules.
- When a new version needs to reorganize the experience before continuing to evolve.
Related skills and solutions
This case connects mainly to the following Fteam areas:
Does your technology work, but the experience has fallen behind?
Fteam can analyze journeys, reorganize the interface and build a clearer experience for your users’ real context.