{"id":83,"date":"2026-06-24T02:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rafaela.design\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:33:42","slug":"making-private-aviation-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rafaela.design\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"Making private aviation more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Making private aviation more accessible<\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Challenge<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fllite was created to make private aviation more accessible by connecting charter operators with travelers in the USA.<\/p>


The product needed to support a complex marketplace with different applications, user types, and booking scenarios.<\/p>


A clearer and more mobile friendly experience was needed to simplify flight requests, improve trust, support user retention, align business goals with easier product flows, and reach product market fit.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The experience was improved through a lean design process based on research, experimentation, delivery, and testing.

Competitor analysis, desk research, user data, usability testing, and session recordings were used to identify friction across key flows.<\/p>

Complex aviation workflows were simplified through familiar design patterns, mobile first decisions, clearer status feedback, loaders, skeleton states, and high fidelity prototypes shared with developers and stakeholders.<\/p>

A more unified experience was also created across Fllite Admin, Fllite Consumer, and Fllite OPS.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The redesign helped create a more consistent and scalable product experience across B2B and B2C applications.<\/p>

A stronger visual system was established, and product decisions became more user and data centered through testing, research, workshops, and design audits.

Confirmed users increased by 94% after one of the redesign initiatives, showing a positive impact on product growth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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This project showed how design can make a complex marketplace feel simpler, more trustworthy, and easier to use.<\/p>

The biggest impact came from mapping complicated aviation workflows, improving mobile usability, adding clearer product feedback, and creating reusable patterns for future growth.

Final takeaway: complex products become easier to scale when the experience is mapped, tested, and designed around real user behavior.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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