Real-World Application:
In-Person Facility Tour

This project required an in-person tour of the FMC Technologies’ development facility. After viewing the application and receiving an overview of the machine’s functional requirements, our Design team had to take the following constraints into consideration: The operator’s relatively compact and dim workspace, their distance from the screen, and the number of viewing screens in front of them.

The operators’ environment is a console where the pilots are sitting at least six feet from the screen, in a dimly lit room or work van on the vessel. Also, the primary touchscreen, located in the middle of the user console, needed to stand out among the other underwater viewing screens. The design required high contrast colors and intuitively designed icons to be readable and recognizable so that the central screen could stand out among the other underwater viewing screens.