Better user interface and experience create faster decision-making in multi-domain operations

[rangerrebew]

Better user interface and experience create faster decision-making in multi-domain operations

Improved UX and UI can enable smarter use of AI and automation, helping warfighters manage data-rich environments and make faster, more informed decisions.
By   Breaking Defense
on October 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
 

The Defense Department’s focus on joint and multi-domain operations is rapidly increasing the pace of technology development – everything from tactical radios and hand-held controllers for first-person-view quadcopters to command and control consoles for ISR platforms.

To be most effective, those systems and many others need to be designed in such a way that they speed decision making for multi-domain operations, for example, not hinder it. In other words, users need well-designed visual elements like buttons and screens, what’s known as User Interface (UI), and well thought out system processes to help them solve problems, commonly called User Experience (UX).

We discussed how UX/UI can be an enabler for future operations with: Tim Heiser, director of defense programs, and Matt McElvogue, vice president of design, at Teague, a firm with 98 years of experience pioneering human-centered design within complex systems and emerging technologies.

Breaking Defense: How is UX/UI defined through a military lens?


Tim Heiser is Director of Defense Programs at Teague.

Heiser: When I hear military customers speak, they need two things: capacity and capability, and they need it now. At Teague, we view good UX design as being able to translate technology to the human who needs to use it, allowing prioritized and simplified decision making in an already stressful and demanding situation.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/10/better-user-interface-and-experience-create-faster-decision-making-in-multi-domain-operations/

[rangerrebew]

Of equal importance is the ability of the person chosen to use it.  Any of you familiar with The Band of Brothers are familiar with the name Herbert Sobel.  It is entirely likely he would have been unable to use this kind of technology.  So, people who are in position to use it but are incapable of using it correctly, need to be weeded out BEFORE trying to use it in combat.  People in such positions who are there based on their sex, are gay, are trannie, DEI, etc. need to be identified before being identified by their incompetence in combat.

[Kamaji]

UI/UX design is important in more than just military applications, and is an area that has to-date been woefully underserved, being primarily left to the same underdeveloped 20-somethings who code the rest of the electronic infrastructure.