American Airlines

Modernization of aa.com for booking and check-out.

UI/UX Designer
February 2009 - December 2010
Methods
Competitive Analysis, Wireframing, Design, Usability Testing
Tools
Axure, Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop, Rally
Time
1 year 10 months
Location
Fort Worth, TX

About the project

I was the third person brought into the newly formed UX group at aa.com as a UI designer, helping to design new features into the existing legacy website. The website was extremely outdated in UI design and front-end code even for the time and especially when measured against competitors. Seeing so much opportunity in my position, I took initiative and I spent my spare time working on new layout and design mock-ups for the aa.com homepage. After a scheduled meeting, I presented some designs to the Executive Vice President of aa.com, which to our surprise, went from being upset, to impressed to excited. The next day, he awarded the UX group the aa.com redesign project starting with the homepage followed by the check-out process.

My Role

I worked directly with the UX Lead and engaged with every analyst in our group - that eventually grew to 11 members - to strategize and gather requirements from the various product owners who required representation throughout the website. I had daily meetings with new product development heads of multiple branches, such as the AAdvantange Loyalty program, Fare Sales, Vacation and UpSell to implement new features to the homepage, landing pages, and the booking and check-out process. I also worked directly with lead UI developers in designing custom interactions and styles as well as with back-end engineers for understanding API services and data points throughout the booking application. As a user experience research apprentice, I learned to write use-cases, user stories and objective questions for task analysis in moderated usability testing.

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