Psion Consulting

UI Design for the NOMAD Support Application

UI Design Application Design Mobile-Centric

Psion Vision came to us with a clear brief – they needed a desktop and mobile application that could sit alongside their Realwear Smart Eyewear and give users a single place to manage documents, calls, contacts, and media files. The work they do is fast-moving and field-based, so the app had to be straightforward to use without any hand-holding, and it had to work just as well on a phone as it did on a screen.

We spent time with both the Psion Vision team and the people who’d actually be using the app day-to-day, because there’s a big difference between what a business thinks its users need and what those users actually find frustrating. What came out of those conversations shaped everything – the navigation, the way documents are sorted and accessed, how calls are handled, and how the app talks to the Realwear device. We weren’t designing around assumptions; we were designing around real workflows, and that made the decisions much easier to get right.

Psion Vision Call Features

The design needed to do a lot without feeling busy, which is a harder balance to get right than it sounds.

We kept the layout clean and the typography clear, using Psion Vision’s branding as a starting point and building a colour palette that worked well in both desktop and mobile contexts. The goal was that anyone picking up the app for the first time should be able to find what they need without stopping to think about it, and that’s the standard we held the design to throughout.

Once the design was signed off, we built the application to work reliably across different devices and operating systems.

An app that behaves differently depending on what you’re running it on creates the kind of friction that undermines the whole thing. Testing was thorough – we worked through the scenarios that real users would encounter, not just the ideal paths – and when Psion Vision deployed it to their clients, it went out in good shape. The application became a core part of Psion Vision’s product offering, sitting comfortably alongside their existing tools and giving their clients a real alternative to platforms like Microsoft Teams on Realwear devices. The mobile experience was just as considered as the desktop – field-based users needed something that worked reliably on a phone without any compromise, and that’s exactly what it delivered.

The application became a core part of Psion Vision's product offering, sitting comfortably alongside their existing tools and giving their clients a real alternative to other call and messaging platforms offered on Realwear devices.

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