Understanding the Food System:

Researched climate impact on agriculture, urban farming, and water scarcity. Mapped history, current scenarios and possible futures for smart farming.

Research Goals & Questions

• How to lower the cost of smart farming adoption?

• How to reduce technical barriers for farmers?

• How to significantly reduce water usage?

Futures Thinking & Strategic Models

• Alternate Presents Timeline: Evolution of drones in farming (1980–2025).

• Backcasting: Traced desirable futures back to present-day steps.

• Future Headlines: “What-if” scenarios around water scarcity and smart farming.

• What-if Framework: Explored Preferable, Possible, Plausible futures.

Opportunity & Insights

THE ONLY STATEMENT

Farmsight is the only drone sharing platform that allows small and medium sized farms to monitor soil quality and share drone technology efficiently so that farms can operate at lower costs.

Experience Design:

• Waveline

• Ecosystem Mapping

• Stakeholder Analysis

• UX Journey

Prototyping

Dashboard: Visualize crops, soil moisture, weather, and AI recommendations, with drone insights and easy sidebar navigation.

Drone Booking: Easy 4-step scheduling with drone and mission details.

Farm Overview: Crop status (type, health, growth, harvest timeline), AI-driven action recommendations, and live weather conditions.

Field Insights: Regional heatmaps (NDVI, moisture, temperature, fertility), trends over time, soil status, recent alerts, action log, and region-specific smart recommendations.

Field Notes:
Capture notes (audio, video, images, text, voice) during field visits, link them to regions, and review over time.

Community Hub:
Share insights, get peer feedback, access local tips, and discover events for your crops and region.

Mobile notifications: Tablet-first app with mobile alerts only for quick feedback on upcoming and completed farm actions.

Impact & Vision

Potential Harm Mitigation

Working on Farmsight taught me how to bridge "Futures thinking with Interaction design."

Speculative Design: Using frameworks like the Futures Cone, Backcasting and Alternate realities showed me how to think beyond immediate solutions and imagine systemic shifts in food systems.
Research to Insight: Interviews and secondary research helped me move from broad challenges (climate, water scarcity) to actionable design opportunities like farm monitoring with drone sharing.
Prototyping as Thinking: Building UI flows for the dashboard, field insights and farm overview made abstract ideas tangible, while also revealing gaps in usability and adoption.