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Girish Suryajoies

Principal UX Designer

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Dronezone

role: Design Consultant

team: 1

responsibility: Design & Strategy 

duration: 12+ Months

Introduction

Syngenta, a global leader in agricultural technology and sustainability, empowers farmers with science-driven innovations to address food security and environmental health. Dronezone, Syngenta’s advanced digital platform, is integral to this mission—enabling seamless management of research trials by leveraging remote sensing, drones, and data visualization for smarter agricultural decisions.

Requirement

Dronezone must support the end-to-end research trial process, from planning to assessment and reporting. It should:

  • Facilitate crop and soil analysis using satellite sensors and drone-captured imagery.

  • Enable the creation of soil and vegetation index maps.

  • Visually represent assessment data, treatment progress, comparative analytics, and temporal changes through intuitive infographics and dashboards.

  • Operate robustly across web, mobile, and tablet platforms for in-field and office use.

User

  • Researchers: Plan, conduct, and analyze research trials, requiring access to multi-source spatial data and progress insights.

  • Field and Trial Managers: Monitor in-field trials, collect real-time data, and compare treatment effectiveness.

  • Syngenta Technology & Data Teams: Oversee integration with satellite/drone streams and ensure analytics integrity.

  • Decision Makers (e.g., R&D Managers, Product Owners): Review trial outcomes and make data-driven decisions regarding innovations and product strategy.

Goal

  • Seamless data collection, visualization, and analytics for both in-field and remote users

  • Rapid detection of treatment efficacy and problem areas, supporting timely agronomic interventions

  • High transparency and comparability of research treatments over time for scientific rigor and actionable insights

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Double Diamond Process for Dronezone

Discover

Understand the challenges of managing agricultural research trials and maximize the use of technology for data-driven decisions.

  • Research user needs for researchers, field managers, and tech/data teams through interviews, field observations, and workflow analysis.

  • Explore current pain points in data capture, trial planning, assessment, and cross-platform accessibility.

  • Gather insights about desired crop/soil analysis, ease of data visualization, and multi-source integration (satellite, drone).

Define

Clearly articulate the key problems and opportunities for the Dronezone trial management experience.

  • Synthesize research to identify main user tasks and bottlenecks:
    - Difficulty linking drone imagery to analytics
    - Challenges in comparative and temporal trial analysis
    - Need for intuitive cross-device dashboards

  • Craft user personas and journey maps for each major user type.

  • Establish actionable statements to address:
    - Seamless data collection/visualization
    - Detection of efficacy and field issues
    - Transparent trial reporting over time

Develop

Generate, test, and refine solutions for end-to-end research trial support within Dronezone.

  • Ideate on platform features: satellite/drone data mapping, index map generation, live dashboards, infographics.

  • Prototype multi-device interfaces and infographic reporting.

  • Conduct usability testing with each user group (in-field, remote, R&D, data teams).

  • Iterate designs based on feedback for intuitive analytics and assessment workflows.

Deliver

Launch robust, validated solutions and monitor ongoing performance in diverse, real-world scenarios.

  • Refine platform and analytics toolkits for reliability across web, mobile, and tablets.

  • Deploy end-to-end trial workflows, emphasizing clear visualization and comparative analytics.

  • Provide training/documentation for seamless user adoption.

  • Gather post-launch feedback, measure trial outcomes, and support continual improvement for scientific rigor and actionable insights.

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