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AIRMETs
Weather hazard indicator tool for Jeppesen Flitedeck Pro.
Tools
Figma, Miro
Role
Design Lead
Timeline
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
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Background
AIRMETs (Airmen's Meteorological Information) are weather advisories issued by meteorological authorities to inform pilots of potentially hazardous weather conditions that are particularly relevant to light aircrafts over North America.
Flitedeck Pro already has a weather layer for SIGMETs, which is essentially a more severe version of AIRMETs. Our sister product, Aviator, has both AIRMETs and SIGMETs layers. The Flitedeck Pro product team is looking to incorporate this layer into our product to allow users to access more weather information in one place.
There are three main types of AIRMETs: Sierra (IFR conditions and mountain obscuration), Tango (turbulence, surface winds, and low-level wind shear), and Zulu (icing).
Initial Research
Internal
To better understand the goals and constraints of this project, I set up time with two of our Flitedeck Pro PMs and one of the Aviator PMs who oversaw the integration of this layer.
Through our discussions, I was given the following three guidelines:
1. We need to display AIRMETs in a way that will not conflict with any of our existing weather layers – choosing colors for each AIRMET type will be critical.
2. Aviator's AIRMETs layer design was created with very minimal user testing and feedback, meaning that
3. Third thing
I also gained access to the AIRMET data we receive from our partner, WSI, and spoke with one of our developers to help parse through the data.
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