Autodesk BIM360 Schedule

Autodesk BIM360 is a suite of web-based applications built for the management of construction projects. BIM360 SCHEDULE is the CPM (Critical Path Method) scheduling application within that product family.

Project

In one year deliver a fully functional web-based scheduling application that can support the scheduling needs of a mid sized construction project.
Deliver a user experience that exceeds the UX of competing construction scheduling applications - Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Vico, Asta Powerproject, etc.
Deliver a product that is intuitive and easy to use. Any person on the project team should be able to build, manage and analyze a construction schedule using BIM360 Schedule.
Data and workflows can span several applications in the BIM360 suite so it is critical the user experience in BIM360 Schedule be consistent with the rest of the BIM360 line of products.

My Role

Design Stories
Task Flows
Interface Design
Standards Management

Modules

Schedule Creation
Advanced Editing
View Management
Filtering
Grouping
Reporting
Printing
Exporting / Sharing Schedules Information
Calendar Management
Administration Tree Builder

The Personas

The BIM360 Schedule Critical Path UI

User Interface Overview

UI Overview - Build Mode

UI Overview - Manage Mode

XBS Tree Builder

Construction project data is tagged with attributes to define characteristics like activity location and task responsibility. Many of these attributes are project specific. As a result, when preparing to manage a project construction managers and schedulers create hierarchies to tag project data.

The goal of this project was to create an interface to enable the creation and management of tree structures which could be used for Location (LBS) and Work Breakdown (WBS) structures.

Node Interaction

This interface was to use drag and drop interactions. I have always been and continue to be a strong supporter of drag and drop interactions, however if not done correctly they can be very difficult to use. For this reason, as a part of my UI specification I develop videos of how I think the components should interact during drag and drop gestures to achieve optimal user experience.

Printing and Sharing

It is often necessary to incorporate construction schedule data into construction management workflows. BIM360 Schedule will provide the ability to Print, Export and Share schedule data.

Printing - Print a schedule to hang on a wall to share with a group in a job site trailer or print in a smaller format for hard copy portability.
Sharing - The contractor is legally responsible to periodically send copies of the construction shedule to the owner or owner's representative.
Export - Take data authored / calculated inside of the BIM360 Schedule application and make it available to other BIM360 applications or document repositories.