(01) / Case study
A route planning app for walkers, designed around one question: can I make it before dark?
Software
2026
Design

(02) / Run sheet
Service
Product design
Lead
Tomas Verhagen
Length
12 weeks
Team
5 people
18
user interviews
48%
of screens finished
12 weeks
planned length
(03) / The story
Pine and Pilot Software
The brief
Pine and Pilot are building a route planner for hillwalkers. Existing tools show distance and height, but nobody tells you whether you will finish before it gets dark.
What we did
Tomas ran eighteen interviews on trails and in cafes. Every screen starts from the answer: a big time-left figure, then the route. The map is secondary and loads offline.
How it went
We are at the halfway point. Prototypes are being tested on a real hill every Saturday.
What changed
The first release is planned for spring.

