Vortex: Planning Military Exercises

PROJECT OVERVIEW

 

I created visualizations and UI elements for a tool to help military personnel prepare for and assess military exercises. Vortex is a military planning tool designed to augment military planning processes and the creation of Courses of Action plans. Current tools used to conduct this process are manual, labor-intensive, and fail to organize and prioritize the myriad data points of planning.

 

MY GOALS

• Help design visualizations to represent uncertainty of hostile location and movement on an interactive map

• Create a tab on the UI layer’s panel for toggling between asset capabilities and uncertainty visualization types

• Design branch labels and paths representing movements of assets at various levels of granularity

• Assist with design auditing and design system

 

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PROCESS

 

Designing visualizations for uncertainty

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I helped create visualizations to depict uncertainty of an asset’s future location. These visualizations include the most likely and the most dangerous outcomes of an enemy asset's movement. This required design thinking and an understanding of the complex system as a whole.

 

Impact:

• Provide dynamic and static visualizations to represent locational uncertainty to the user

• Uncertainty visualizations produce system-generated paths and locations of hostile assets to assist in military planning

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Creating Uncertainty Tab

 

The layers panel of the interface allows users to interact with the map and display different visualization tools and capabilities. I designed the Uncertainty tab of this panel.

 

Impact:

• Allow users to quickly toggle between different uncertainty visualizations to view static or dynamic projections

• Enable users to toggle multiple settings from different tabs at once so they can customize their map visualizations to fit their current needs