Modernizing Solutions Together

xTerrain is a high-performance terrain and raster analysis system that enables users to create highly accurate terrain products in a fraction of the time, by leveraging high-performance computing resources. Customers are using xTerrain today to produce view-sheds and radio propagation models to perform routing operations for security and humanitarian missions at a global scale.

Gaining Greater Visibility and Leveraging the Power of Data

Maxar Technologies turned to Wovenware to design a streamlined and intuitive user experience with a modern, minimalist interface design that showcased the power of simplicity, speed and efficiency offered by the xTerrain application.

Our Challenges
and Learnings

• Create a simple and intuitive user experience for a very sophisticated and complex application.

• Develop a modern user interface design.

• Rebrand the product with a refreshed logo.

• Match the quality of design to the quality of the application.

The Wovenware Approach

We studied xTerrain’s current customer journey to create a compelling yet simple user experience. Using organic color palettes and minimalist graphical elements we designed a simple and easy to use interface for a trailblazing application.

Technologies we take advantage of

Building it Right

In order to provide a more user-friendly interface, our team of developers made sure to:

  • Created a very organic palette that compliments the terrain imagery.
  • Designed an intuitive flow to guide users in creating new operations.
  • Implemented a hierarchy of menus, icons and modals to make relevant user actions stand out.
  • Improved iconography to visually represent key operations.
  • Added a landing page, domain and modern branding to help promote the tool.

❝Maxar Technologies’s xTerrain application is enhanced to make global change more visible, information more actionable, and space accessible for customers in more than 70 countries.❞

Let’s create useful technology together that empowers humans and delivers impact.