Airbus Group
Heritage Timeline
Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry. They are a leaders in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale.
The pioneers, innovations and products are staged in the form of milestones in an interactive timeline.
Project goal and focus
Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry. They are a leaders in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale.
The pioneers, innovations and products are staged in the form of milestones in an interactive timeline.
Position
Concepter / UX Designer
Activities
Channel Strategy
Information architecture
Wireframing
Presentations
Channel Strategy
Exemplary screens
Decade page
Aggregated topic page
Article page
Pulling the user in
After opening the timeline, the user is greeted with a collagen animation, showing the most important pioneers and milestones.
Get to know the character of a decade
The timeline is ordered by decades. Each decade is introduced by a short text enlightening the soul and character of the according decade.
Informing about innovations and
entertaining with contextual trivia
Within a decade the milestones are sorted chronologically. Every milestone, such as the first ever flight test described here, is enriched with further information and media of suitable innovations, products and pioneers. Additional anecdotes and cultural events entertain the user and convey the spirit of the time.
For each milestone, meta topics are presented in the form of tags. If the user clicks on one of these tags, a suitable topic page is aggregated.
Navigating not only through time, but topics as well
After the user has clicked on a meta topic / tag, a topic page is aggregated, showing all according media.
Telling stories to outstanding milestones and pioneers
Outstanding milestones and pioneers are presented in a dedicated story. In this way, the user can learn even more background information about the history, tradition and people who have shaped the airbus group.
Spreading the word in social media
In order to reach as large an audience as possible, selected milestones were linked to various social media platforms. In addition, all articles are written search engine optimized. Milestones seeded on…
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