Improving Gate Change Notifications

Product Study Case
March 2024

Project overview:

  • Problem Definition
  • Research Approaches
  • Real Problem Statement
  • Improvement suggestion
  • Decision Flowchart
  • Design
  • Solved Issue

1. Problem Definition

Frequent gate changes at airports can be inconvenient for passengers. As a result, data shows that over 20% of travellers miss their flights because of the gate changes.

In real life, seven out of ten persons interviewed had a negative experience using different situations due to a lack of gate change information, and some of that situations are:

  • Missed Flights
  • Passengers confusion and stress
  • Crowded terminals because of relocating number of passengers to the new gate
  • Accessibility issue for the passengers with reduced mobility or disabilities
  • Customer satisfaction

2. Research Approaches

Based on ten interviews and gathering quantitative information, the issue is presented through three user personas. There are three scenarios: the first group presents passengers who rarely travel, the second group presents travelers who are unfamiliar with airports, and the third group presents passengers who travel frequently.
More information regarding the interview process and the user journey may be found here.

3. Real Problem Statement

This is the real example of gate change confusion.
The Gate was changed some period before boarding, and the user wasn't familiar with that information. There was no email or SMS with the modifications, but the user already had the information about the first gate location. The information on the airport app was different from what the user had, so that situation caused the user to be confused and frustrated.

4. Improvement suggestion

Here are presented some of the suggestions how the issue can be solved, and how the users will be satisfied with the solution.
The whole section can be viewed on the link below.

Improvement suggestion - the whole process

5. Decision Flowchart

All details from this section can be viewed on the link below.

Decision flow - the whole processThe User flow for SMS, Mobile and Email notification

6. Design

This screen provides SMS, app and e-mail notifications, the AR map, and demonstrates the action.

The whole prototype can be viewed on the link below.

Design - Design elements and Prototype

7. Solved Issue

By implementing this extra method of notifying passengers about gate changes, we would attempt to solve the following issues for both passengers and the company:

For passengers

For airline company

IMPROVING GATE CHANGE NOTIFICATION - The whole project

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