01
2025
Getij
Harbour pilots planned tides, ships and rest hours across four tools and a whiteboard. I mapped how a shift really comes together and designed a single schedule that shows only what matters for the next six hours.
Client
Getij Pilots Cooperative (fictional)
Role
Lead product designer
Team
2 engineers, 1 PM, 6 pilots as co-designers
Platform
Web app, tablet
Getij shift schedule on a tablet. Mockup of a fictional product, replace with your own work.
4 → 1
tools to plan a shift
Example — replace
38 → 11
minutes to log a handover
Example — replace
6
pilots in weekly test sessions
Example — replace
The problem
A shift plan lived in four places. Tide tables, ship arrivals and rest rules were each correct on their own, but nobody could see them together. Handover took most of an hour.
What I did
I sat in on twelve handovers and sketched the plan the way pilots described it out loud. We tested paper prototypes on the bridge, then a coded prototype on the crew tablet.
The result
One schedule, sorted by the next six hours, with rest rules built in. Handovers got shorter and calmer, and the whiteboard came down after two months.
