United Airlines · Full-time role

Central planning said the schedule worked. The hangar floor knew better.

I researched how United’s maintenance teams planned and adjusted work. The interviews showed where system estimates, local capacity and shift handovers stopped matching.

My roleDesign lead · Research
ContextFull-time at United Airlines
HubsORD, DEN, IAH and SFO
WorkField interviews and design directions

I followed how teams adjusted the plan during a shift.

Planners, supervisors and managers balanced available aircraft, staffing and maintenance work. I looked at the tools they used together and the working records they kept outside those tools.

That gave me a basis for discussing workload accuracy, local planning decisions and the information that needed to carry across a shift change.

I used early concepts to make the findings concrete.

The research handoff included workflow maps and design directions for priorities and hangar allocation. These gave the team specific ideas to review against the work observed in the field.

The full case study follows the evidence into those concepts.

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