Honeywell Worker Assist - Collaboration Software

HMT • Mobile • Web Application


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ABOUT PROJECT


Challenge:

Workers on the field often feel disconnected because contextualised information is not available as per their need. Uninformed maintenance (in silos) impacts productivity and causes plant downtime. Workers today expect seamless communication and collaboration backed by smart, accessible assistance on the go.



Honeywell

Client

Apr 2020 - Aug 2022

Project Duration

30+ Members

Product Team Size (Designer: Myself + 1)



Outcome:

Honeywell Forge Worker Assist is a SaaS-based workforce productivity mobility application for deskless mobile workers that provides a productive collaborative environment for field teams and remote experts to work together. Highly integrated, contextual, device-agnostic solutions enable workers to spend minimal time accessing the information they need to accomplish their immediate task at hand.



UX & Business Impact:

30% incident time reduction to solve issues with the help of Worker Assist.
Worker Assist helps reduce rework and travel costs by up to 50%.
Reduced manual interventions through digital collaboration and information access.
Worker Assist improved the time required to analyze the problem by 20%
Worker Assist quick information access impacts worker productivity by 20-30%. 
Worker Assist reduced learning curve time to 4– 6 months.
Worker Assist releases in line with business, customer and UX expectations: 3 Beta Releases, LA Release (March 2021), GA Release (July 2021), 12+ Regular monthly drops for product improvement.



MY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Project UX Lead (for Worker Assist Android, iOS & Realware HMT application)

UX Contributions

Conducting UX workshops with stakeholders to understand the business/product requirement in detail.
Secondary research & Data analysis.
Insight generation: Data visualization, Storyboarding, Persona, Journey mapping, Function & intent finding, Information architecture
Vision prototyping & concept testing of new ideas.
Conducting usability testing of designed/developed features of the product.
Process documentation for project management & leadership presentation.

UI Contributions

UI Flow with concept sketches and low-fi wireframe.
High-fi wireframe with complete visual design & clickable prototypes.
Design demo to the development team.
Usability testing & UI changes/refinements.
Vision prototyping & concept testing.
UI development support & VD reviews of the developed design.

Product Management

UX review of the developed design.
Collaboration with various scrums teams for product development.
Ensuring UX maturity of the product.
Requirement understanding of the upcoming release.
Prioritization of UX stories for release and development.
Product enhancement as per customers & business ask/feedback.
Design demo and presentation to the leadership team.

PROCESS

The project is under NDA: Only parts of the project are highlighted here, please contact me for the entire design process.



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Worker Assist App on App Store



Worker Assist App on Google Play Store



CONCLUSION

Impact

➭ 30% reduction in incident time to resolve issues with the help of Worker Assist.
➭ 50% reduction in rework and travel costs due to Worker Assist.
➭ 20% improvement in the time required to analyze the problem with the help of Worker Assist.
➭ 20-30% improvement in worker productivity with the help of Worker Assist quick information access.
➭ 50-60% reduction in learning/training time with Worker Assist.

Learnings

➭ Prioritize flexibility over simplicity: Designing flexible systems instead of simple, as simplification doesn’t always work in enterprise software but flexibility does.
➭ Focus on end users, the rest will follow: Aim to improve the user experience for the actual user, who typically is not the buyer(in enterprise products), while aligning with business goals and IT constraints.
➭ Respect early customers' feedback: Try to incorporate customers' feedback & suggestions in the product (specifically in MVP stage) as it increases satisfaction and loyalty & satisfied, loyal customers are more likely to make repeat/big orders.
➭ Always focus on inclusive approach: Designing inclusive digital solutions to give everyone a great user experience regardless of their capabilities, gender, ethnicity, language or any other differences.

MEDIA, ANALYSIS & PRESS RELEASES