Cirium

Cirium, part of the RELX Group, approached Edenspiekermann (now State of Tomorrow) to modernize its products and the way one of the world’s largest aviation data sets is presented. Every second the company processes millions of data points, from flight paths to delays and airport performance, and all of it has to become dashboards, maps and widgets that people can act on. I took the project from brand to interface.

We began with a branding exercise: a new digital identity that Cirium’s teams can implement easily. I then applied it to the interface, where layers of data visualizations and maps sit on top of each other and users can move widgets around, and it still has to feel intuitive. We validated the designs with long-time Cirium users in in-depth interviews, and the feedback was very positive. The result is a scalable design system that makes a very large amount of aviation data understandable.