Clear Picture SA

What is Clear Picture SA?

Clear Picture SA documents and demonstrates Situation Awareness (SA) design principles through real-world dashboards, practically demonstrated concepts, and reusable patterns. It bridges cognitive science and industrial practice — drawing from Mica R. Endsley & Debra G. Jones’ Designing for Situation Awareness, Stephen Few’s information-design work, and contemporary insights from industrial operations.

Together, this evolving framework provides:

• A practical reference for building dashboards that support perception, comprehension, and projection.
• An open reference that documents how different visualization tools support Situation Awareness principles.
• Visual examples that demonstrate how multiple SA principles work together in complete, cognitively clear dashboards.

How It Works

The Clear Picture SA Framework documents Situation Awareness (SA) principles that are applicable to industrial visualization use cases.

It offers designs and prototype dashboards that demonstrate how these principles can be expressed in practice — while encouraging collaboration and shared learning between vendors, integrators, and designers.

This approach helps turn cognitive research into practical design strategies for clearer, more effective industrial displays.

Where to Start

• SA Concepts — Explore the core concepts that form the foundation of Situation Awareness–oriented design in our work.
• SA Design Patterns — See how principles combine into higher-level visualization strategies and techniques.
• Implemented Designs — View real-world dashboard examples created for industrial use, applying SA concepts in practice.
• Daily Moments of SA — Discover everyday analogies that make SA principles clear and relatable.
• Let’s Explore Your Dashboard — Participate in a collaborative review to uncover strengths and opportunities in your existing displays.