Case Study Details:
Industry:
Agriculture
Region:
USA
Technology:
Web/Mobile Application
About the Client
Client provides farm management software serving corn and soybean farmers for over ten years, supporting agronomists, field technicians, and farm managers with operational data and analytics.
Challenges
- Dashboards overloaded with excessive data lacking clear visual hierarchy.
- Complicated navigation difficult for users to master.
- Inconsistent data formats and components across different modules.
- Limited mobile accessibility preventing field users from real-time data access.
Solutions
- Conducted stakeholder interviews with agronomists, field technicians, and farm managers to understand operational difficulties and business expectations.
- Performed field observations and user shadowing to observe system usage in actual farm environments.
- Executed heuristic evaluation to identify accessibility and usability issues.
- Identified user requirements for simplified dashboards with real-time crop health, soil, and yield projections.
- Defined needs for reports, visual analytics during crop cycles, reduced downtime, faster performance, simplified processes, customized context-aware dashboards, and mobile-first interface.
Results
- Transformed farm management system into cutting-edge, data-driven, intuitive agricultural platform meeting soybean and corn growers’ needs.
- Improved field usability and accessibility through a responsive, WCAG-compliant interface enabling seamless device access.
- Enhanced operational efficiency with streamlined processes cutting data entry and reporting time by over 40%.
- Delivered personalized dashboards and insights through role-based views for actionable field-specific data.
- Enabled predictive insights via interactive dashboards for soil health, yield trends, and rainfall pattern analysis.