AMIGOS - The Agronomist Platform

The complete tools for agronomists

The Agronomist Platform is a tool to support our client's internal agronomists. There are 2 streams inside, the data collection platform and the ticketing system. While I was responsible for design part in both streams, I will focus only on data collection platform in this case study.

The business objective of data collection platform is to improve the efficiency of data collection in-field by taking and uploading different types of data simultaneously while preserving and storing the metadata including the analysis of pest, disease, and deficiency (PDD).
MY ROLE
Senior Product Designer
Product Thinking, Discovery and Ideation, User Research, Prototyping and Testing, User Flow, Design System, Wireframing, UI design
JAN - APR 2021
(4 months)
Existing data collection PROCESS 📝
Here are the existing steps to collect the crops data.
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The admin creates a new project that required new data or photos
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The admin finds available agronomists and reach out to them asking for collecting the data in-field
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The agronomists visit the field to collect the data or take a photo per requirement
4.
The agronomists analyse pest, disease, or deficiency (PDD) they face
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If PDD is found, the agronomists will submit relevant photos with PDD information to the admin via messenger app
6.
The agronomists collect the data repeatedly until the daily target is met
7.
The agronomists return to their base office or home and do bulk upload data and photos in OneDrive
8.
The admin checks data in OneDrive and prepare them by cleaning, categorising, proving, before use
THE PROBLEM

Since the current process was done manually, it causes several problems for both user groups.

For admins, they need to waste their time finding and contacting the right agronomists and also search for usable data in the cluttered pool.

For agronomists, because there is no guideline or structure to collect the data, they may need to revisit the field to collect the same data if it turns out to be invalid. They also need to send PDD information separately which sometimes result in duplicating the data.
the PROPOSED SOLUTION ✨
We decided to separate the platform into 2 systems, the mobile app for agronomists (data collectors) and the web app for admin.
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web app
The admin can create projects and tasks inside each project. Each task will be assigned to available agronomists and allows the admin to customise the details such as custom the form, target number, due date, etc. The admin can also track the collecting process of each task and get the right data. In addition, after MVP release, we are planning to create a report system that collect task-wise and project-wise statistics.

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Data collector app
The agronomists can use this app to collect varieties of data as specified by the admin. It also allows the data collectors to annotate the areas of issue on the picture to enhance the accuracy of pest and disease identification. It also eases the process of image tagging in the back-end and helps build a database of pictures by enabling tagging of the pictures with the appropriate pest, deficiency and disease (PDD) issues.

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The PROTOTYPE ✏️
Lo-fi interactive prototype was created to show the flow between web app and mobile app.
Remote usability test
The prototype was turned into hi-fidelity UI then tested with our users before redesigned, if usability issue was found, or passed to the developers if no issue presence.
THE DATA COLLECTION 
PLATFORM
The integrated web app and mobile app that covers end-to-end process of data collection, starting from setting up a project and task, to collecting and identifying crops issues altogether.
see assigned tasks and details
Only assigned tasks are shown in the homepage, ordered by tasks' created date.
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Design Highlight
I chose to make task name more prominent than project based on the value of the information. For data collectors, the task-level information is more important than the project-level.
create new entry, then save or upload
Create a new entry or new instance of form to fill with data, then upload the instance to meet the target or save it for upload later.

Design Highlight
The FAB icon was redesigned by adding a label, to make it more prominent and easy to understand based on the test feedback.

Save feature was created to align with the users' habit of bulk uploading whole collection of data when they have strong internet connection at home or office, instead of in-field.
annotate photos with PDD
Identify photos right away in-field by annotate the areas of issue on the picture and specify related PDD. The small annotate icons ease users to distinguish between annotated photos and others.

Design Highlight
The users need to finish annotating action as quick as possible since there is over 100 photos to do per day.
Thus, this flow was designed to complete the action in 3 clicks and spend less than 2 minutes to finish the whole set of 100 photos.
MVP design - web app
MVP design - mobile app
The user Feedback
"She added great value to the project especially her product designs are very easy to use. I like the user friendly designs created by her"
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— Vijeta Khan, Lead agronomist and the user
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