Glydways Surfaces

Company
Glydways
Project
Surfaces
Role
Principal Designer
Surfaces
Vehicle
Rider's Phone
Platform Kiosk
Control Room
Products
Live Activities
Operations Command & Control
Vehicle Software
Kiosk / VMS
Year
2026
Problem
Transit environments are high-stress, high-motion, and multilingual. Riders and operators need information that's immediately legible and behaviorally consistent, especially during disruptions.
Goal
Build a system that doesn't just standardize UI—it calmly guides people through complex environments and makes advanced autonomy easier to understand across product, operations, and storytelling.
01SignageMetro
Level marker sign mounted overhead in a station

Level 2, overhead.

The level marker: one numeral, one pictogram, one colour. The marks stay neutral so the line colour can do its job.

Surface 03 · Signage + Wayfinding
02WayfindingMetro
Station totem between two vehicles, the route shown as a purple line

The line on the totem.

Colour identifies a line. The same route keeps its identity on a dark platform sign and a printed white map without becoming a second colour.

Surface 03 · Signage + Wayfinding
03LightMetro
Halo canopy lit above a platform at dusk

Light marks the place.

Colour marks the line, light marks the place. The halo canopy is the one element that says “here” without a word on it.

Surface 03 · Signage + Wayfinding
04KioskLumasis
Lumasis glass settings panel

Glass over the line colour.

Every screen surface reads the line through glass. Frosted at .045, blurred 22, the family cast comes through.

Surface 04 · Kiosk + Ticketing · --lum-glass-frosted
05Control roomLumasis
Operations control center components

Operators read the same data the vehicle perceives.

The OCC components: token swatch row, vehicle status list, alerts, terminal. Same families, same glass, denser.

Surface 05 · Operating Control System
06AppLive Activities
Dynamic Island compact, expanded and minimal presentations above a full-screen arrival and three route activities

For the length of a trip, the Live Activity is the app.

One arrival that holds from a Dynamic Island pill to a full-screen Lock Screen presentation, each route in its own family.

Surface 06 · Apps
07The readLumasis
Core#AE3375
Glass · 34%
Light—

Colour in. Light out.

One family, Magenta. The core value marks the line; read through glass at 34% it becomes the light value. Recorded, not eyeballed.

ΔL — · AA · nine families
08ScriptsMetro
Metro wordmark in three scripts above three concentric-ring line hues

Three scripts, one geometry.

Latin, Japanese and Arabic drawn from the same construction as the mark and the pictograms. The standard holds in every script the network runs in.

Metro · wordmark · Latin · 日本語 · العربية
Glydways · one standard · six surfaces
Related Work
Lumasis design system coverGlydways Brand Guidelines cover