Design & User Experience
User Experiences
User Experience Design plays a pivotal role in our markets. In high-stakes and life-critical environments, every second counts. It’s not just about delivering seamless solutions — it’s about creating reliable, efficient, and trustworthy solutions that help operators thrive in decisive moments.
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The soldier experience © Media Services
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The passenger experience © Thales
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The soldier experience © Shutterstock
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The pilot experience © 123RF
In environments where precision, speed, and performance are non-negotiable, our design approach is grounded in how people naturally think and act — making complex systems easier to use and faster to learn. We go beyond traditional usability, focusing on the unique operational challenges our users face.
When lives are on the line, user experience isn’t just design — it’s operational and what matters most is reliability, efficiency and trust. Explore our user stories, and see how we design for those who move fast, decide under pressure, and act with precision.
KEY users stories
Empowering Users in Decisive Moments: UX that makes the difference
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Boots, eyes, and radios: how infantry units deploy observation and communication on the battlefield
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Between sky and strain: inside the world of Air Traffic Controllers
- Cybersecurity
Hackers, breaches, firewalls: inside the world of cybersecurity analysts
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The Sonar Operator: in the depths, the submarine’s eyes and ears
Key benefits
User Experience & Operational Stakes
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Decision Times
We provide meaningful design, clear information architecture and visual guidance to help users scan, understand, and empower decisions—reducing cognitive load & enabling confident action when timing gets critical.
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Mission Efficiency
Our designs streamline tasks & workflows across all users. By focusing on personas and leveraging shared situational awareness, we support efficient coordination, faster journey execution, and operational mission performance.
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Mission Resilience
We build systems that prevent user errors and remain reliable under degraded or unexpected conditions. Adaptive modes, intuitive recovery paths, and contextual user feedback maintain continuity and build operator trust.
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Training Times
By aligning systems with natural user behaviors and recognized design standards, we reduce training load and accelerate adoption, enabling users to operate effectively from day one.
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Quality of Life
Great UX enhances user comfort through ergonomics and accessibility, reducing fatigue in high-stress environments. By applying human-centered design, we support user long-term satisfaction and sustainable well-being.
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Simplicity
Reducing complexity by design. By removing distractions and friction, and focusing on operational impact, we help users stay focused and navigate challenges with ease, whatever the mission.
shape operational impacts with design
From co-innovation to operational excellence
Conducting ideation workshops with partners © Thales
Building lasting partnerships with customers
True empowerment comes from systems people can trust—designed to align with how operators think, act, and make decisions under pressure.
Building lasting partnerships with customers, domain experts, and end-users is essential to uncover real operational challenges and craft enduring solutions that work in the field.
Through close collaboration and co-creation, we translate practical knowledge into actionable design decisions that enhance reliability, efficiency, mission performance in the field—today and in the long term.
Turning field insights into operational impact
We transform deep user understanding into operational advantage. Through field observations, interviews, and workflow analysis, we uncover users’ real needs, constraints, and decision-making patterns.
These insights allow us to simplify complexity, turn advanced technology into a reliable ally, and empower operators to act with clarity and confidence.
By continuously testing in real-world conditions, we deliver solutions that maximize efficiency, resilience, and mission success—even in the most demanding environments.
Framing sessions with end-users © Thales
Resources
Discover our publications
Transform with Design
Valuable resource for practitioners interested in Design Thinking. By offering real-world examples especially design-led innovation strategies at Thales.
Design Tokens
This book is entirely dedicated to Design Tokens. By compiling definitions and a detailed case study on how Thales has implemented Design Tokens into Quantum Design System.
Human Factors & Cyber
Cyber security incidents are often attributed to “human error”. This book delivers an approach to mitigating the risk of the human in cyber security.