With help from
Indigo Studio, PTV
builds solutions for“a world that moves”
As the world heads toward 9.7 billion people by the year 2050, urban density continues to climb. Straining
already overloaded city infrastructures, this increased population also means more idling cars and trucks
stuck in traffic, burning fuel and sapping productivity.

In this environment, transportation poses a bigger challenge than ever. To continue as economic centers

into the future, cities need new ways to improve accessibility, livability and sustainability, while keeping

people and goods on the move. And for companies in logistics and shipping — with e-commerce adding
heavy volume while also shaving their increasingly thin margins — it’s a matter of survival.

That’s where Karlsruhe, Germany-based PTV Group comes in. Recognized as a global market leader, PTV
develops intelligent software solutions for transport logistics, traffic planning and traffic management.

Thus cities, companies and people save time and money, enhance road safety and minimize the impact
on the environment. Based on this unique expertise in every facet of mobility, PTV solutions help fleetcompanies, owner-operators, public transport operators, cities and public authorities in more than 120countries and more than 2,500 cities.

In the logistics business field, PTV’s algorithms facilitate route calculation, planning and optimization —finding the best routes, keeping fuel consumption in hand, complying with transport laws and regulations,eliminating empty runs, and in the process, helping companies to best compete in the market. The PTV

portfolio ranges from software for scheduling transport routes and trips to distribution planning and fleet
management, including truck navigation and even a truck parking app.

“We have a wide range of solutions for transport companies of every size while at the same timeoffering profound consulting skills to our customers,” says Holger Indervoort, product manager for thecompany’s PTV Map&Guide Internet product. “There’s almost nothing we don’t do in the logistics andtraffic sectors except for transporting goods ourselves.”
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PTV Map&Guide Internet is a transport route planner that also provides the ability to calculate costs,

wear and tear, tolls, driver salaries and more. For drivers, owner-operators and dispatchers of transportcompanies, PTV Map&Guide internet provides real-world intelligence to plan more efficient routes anddelivery schedules, and to better handle their costs and potential profitability.

Indervoort is not only responsible for the product management, but also for the design of the solution —and for that, he’s turned to Infragistics Indigo Studio.

A streamlined design process

Indervoort first started designing PTV Map&Guide Internet and other PTV products using traditional

flowchart and diagramming software and soon realized their limitations. The design process involvedstitching together screenshots with objects representing workflows and then describing the desired layout
and back-end functionality in writing for developers.

According to Indervoort, it was an approach that left a lot of space for interpretation. Since developers wereworking from written descriptions, and since each person has a different approach for developing front ends,
Indervoort would frequently see functionality come through that he didn’t design for, inconsistencies inlayout, and other surprises.

“If you have three front-end developers working on three screens, one might put the ‘okay’ button to theleft and ‘cancel’ to the right, while another puts ‘cancel’ left and ‘okay’ right,” he says. “This obviously createsproblems for users, and customer satisfaction issues if those discrepancies make it into the final product.”
Indervoort realized that to build a consistent product as efficiently as possible, it would be critical to havea centralized design upfront, so developers wouldn’t have to guess about what goes where. That’s when hedecided to move his design process to Indigo Studio.

Indigo Studio, we do not need to write much documentation“ Withanymore about how a certain function should work and behave.
We just design it.
“Holger Indervoort - Product Manager for the company’s PTV Map&Guide Internet product.

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“High-fidelity” prototypes put everyone on the same page

With his former design process based on flowcharts and written descriptions, there was no easy way for

Indervoort to create a prototype of a new version without essentially developing it outright. Once the design
was in place, Indervoort would send reams of charts and descriptions to developers and have them get towork.

But this meant that any changes to the product also necessitated cumbersome and costly development

cycles. If a change was needed, developers would have to rework not just a button or a layout tweak, but thewhole back-end functionality behind it as well.

“As soon as the product was developed, the costs of any changes rose dramatically, because we needed todevelop the changes. In addition, all tests had to be done again, and documentation and translations had tobe revised,” Indervoort says. “With Indigo Studio, those costs are virtually eliminated.”

With Indigo Studio, Indervoort can make changes to the design in a matter of clicks and then share the newversion with reviewers in the form of an interactive prototype with commenting functionality embedded togather feedback.

“Our prototypes for PTV Map&Guide Internet are very high-fidelity and look almost like the real version,” hesays. “So colleagues can really understand what the experience would look like.”

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By reviewing the design in the form of a prototype, reviewers can feel the interaction and imagine howsomething would work without having to comb through hundreds of pages of specifications — and without

developers having to build the functionality from scratch. As the project moves along, if a manager wants tocheck on the progress of the design, she can just open the link to the prototype and see the current status.

“When I’m designing new functionality, everybody can have a look at it,” Indervoort says. “And once everyone

has confirmed it, we can start development with almost no changes later on. There are no surprises anymore
and no expensive changes post-development. Every big or basic change can be made in the cheapest
environment — the prototype.”

Iterating with ease

In the software world, nothing is static and products are always being improved. Indervoort and his team arecontinually planning new functionalities and new use cases to keep PTV Map&Guide internet on the cuttingedge and provide rich functionality for customers — and today, all of that design work happens first within
Indigo Studio.

design is getting more and more important with so much
“ Interaction
software in the world, for us it’s a huge advantage to have a tool like thisfor interaction designers, that was created with the users in mind.
“Holger Indervoort - Product Manager for the company’s PTV Map&Guide Internet product.

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“Every new functionality is designed in Indigo Studio before internal reviews and usability testing,” he says.

“From there, we make some iterations and then start development. Typically in a few days, we have it up
and running.”Indervoort says this ability to rapidly iterate on design is especially important in an era when there are somany platforms and devices. PTV Map&Guide and connected applications are used across mobile, desktop,

web-based services, internal IT and more — creating differences in screen sizes, operating systems and otherfactors that must all be designed for.

His work with the platform has been such a success that Indervoort’s colleagues across PTV have begun toexplore and use Indigo Studio as well, including those in product development and other product managers
doing some mockups for their latest designs.

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