User Experience and Usability in Agriculture – Selected Aspects for Design Systems

Jakub Štěpán NovákJan MasnerJiří VaněkPavel ŠimekKlára Hennyeyová

DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110407
No 4/2019, December
pp. 75-83

Novák, J. Š., Masner, J., Vaněk, J., Šimek, P. and Hennyeyová, K. (2019) “User Experience and Usability in Agriculture - Selected Aspects for Design Systems", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 75-83. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110407.

Abstract

The paper focuses on the analysis of the applicability of usability and UX methods in the development of applications intended for use in the agrarian sector. In addition to an overview of methods and approaches suitable for this purpose, the process of advanced adoption of the UX methods in the development of agrarian software products is also described. The article also discusses ways to enable partially automated, time-efficient, and cost-effective solutions for the creation of interfaces for agricultural applications. Possibilities of future development and technologies related to the usability of products in agriculture are also outlined. The article thus covers the concept for optimizing the development of agricultural products. The main contribution is the input analysis for the future development of the agrarian design system. From such a synthesized system design, it is then possible to create application interfaces that should have seamless usability and good UX.

Keywords

UX, Usability, Agriculture, Design System, Automation, UI, SW, Digital product.

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