Professor Kjetil Nordby, head of Ocean Industries Concept Lab at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, has announced the launch of the latest version of the open source OpenBridge design framework,
Professor Kjetil Nordby, head of Ocean Industries Concept Lab at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, has announced the launch of the latest version of the open source OpenBridge design framework, built to deliver consistent, modern and regulation-compliant user experiences for maritime bridges and other safety-critical applications.
Ship bridges are made up of systems from many suppliers that deliver individual implementations to each bridge. This leads to fragmented workplaces with a large number of different user interfaces, which in turn leads to an increased need for training and increased chances of human error. Also, this leads to high costs and low pace of innovation, since suppliers must develop and maintain a large number of systems aimed at individual suppliers or ships.
OpenBridge aims to solve these problems by developing design guidelines based on modern user interface technology, human-centered design principles, component libraries and industry 4.0 IT methodology.
Its key components are:
• Design guideline with integrated component library for maritime user interfaces that can be implemented both in modern web technology and in dedicated software systems.
• Framework for user testing consisting of tools, processes and methods for iterative quality assurance of design guidelines, components and implementations.
• Implementation
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