A Sentinel A4 exhibit for AUSA, designed across an interactive touchscreen and a large LED display. My UI/UX work connected hands-on exploration with the larger-screen story.
THE THINKING BEHIND THE EXPERIENCELockheed Martin needed to present Sentinel A4 at AUSA through an exhibit that made its capabilities tangible. My UI/UX challenge spanned two surfaces: an interactive touchscreen and a much larger LED display.
A paired-screen experience gives visitors a hands-on interface alongside a shared visual story. I designed the touchscreen experience and worked out what belonged on the LED screen, in collaboration with the development team.
UI/UX, wireframes, styleframes, and interactive experience creation with the developers at The Virtual Wild. My scope included both the touchscreen interface and the content approach for the larger LED screen.
The first design problem was deciding what each surface needed to do. A touchscreen is operated at close range; the LED display is viewed by people around the booth. My responsibility covered both, so the experience needed to make sense at these two scales.
The exhibit pairs an interactive kiosk with a 15 × 7-foot LED screen. The photographs show how the product and its content occupy the physical space.
The touchscreen side of my UI/UX work focused on the visitor’s path through the experience: how to explore, understand the current view, and move between pieces of content.
That design problem calls for clear choices and visible controls close to the point of interaction. The wireframe sample gallery below is reserved for original design artifacts.
Wireframe samples coming soon.
I also had to determine what the larger LED screen should show. This introduced a different design question: which content communicates well at a distance, and which detail belongs with the person using the touchscreen?
The styleframe stage connects those decisions to composition and hierarchy. It is a way to consider the large display as part of the experience, alongside the interface being touched.
Styleframe samples coming soon.
As on Mattermost, my role combined UI/UX with creating the interactive experience alongside developers, including work with Rive. For this exhibit, that collaboration also had to account for the touchscreen and larger display as a pair.
The key handoff question was how the designed interaction and screen content would read together in the installed experience.
The published kiosk photograph shows numbered comparison points, an active selection, and an Exit control. These sit beneath the product view and explanatory copy, establishing a visible relationship between navigation and content.
The LED photograph combines a large product view with a capability heading and supporting text. The screen provides a shared visual focus while the kiosk gives a visitor a surface to operate.
My design task was to connect the two surfaces without treating their layouts as interchangeable. The same experience has to accommodate a person reaching toward a control and an audience looking toward the larger display.
That distinction gives the visual system its purpose: consistent orientation, with content priorities suited to each screen.
The two-screen approach makes the UI/UX problem concrete: one surface supports direct interaction, while the other supports shared viewing. Treating both as part of the design scope lets the interface and larger presentation be considered together.
This project extended my role beyond a single interface. I had to consider where a visitor interacts, where the wider audience looks, and how those experiences connect.
The Virtual Wild’s case study documents the installed exhibit and its reported results.