Redesigning the Hawaii Missile Alert Screen

One of the biggest news this week has been about how an someone erroneously issued a Ballistic Missile Alert in Hawaii. Honolulu Civil Beat had more details about the interface for issuing alerts. (Which is nothing more than a list of links). I sat down to redesign it.

Constraints and Assumptions:
1. Given how these alert messages seem to be updating over the air, one would need the page to load quickly. - So it's imperative that a bare bones page would be desired. Over stylising could slow the system down and increase the response time to any major issue.

2. I'm assuming that people know what the text on the screen means. (i.e. they don't need further description for PACOM, or AMBER alerts)

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Giving these constraints and looking at the current interface, I felt that the list needed proper grouping. The Drill and Actual message should be as far as possible (not mixed together).

An Amber alert is different from a Tsunami Alert or a Ballistic Missile Alert, the two should not be grouped together. (Imagine inadvertently issuing a Tsunami warning when all you wanted to do was to issue an Amber Alert)

The Glyphs provide further context to what the message contains.
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This is a UI Designed to work and load quickly even on slow internet connections, and designed for easy readability of the messages.

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Link to the Honolulu Civil Beat Tweet showing the old UI : https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953127542050795520