Clear Labs
Saving the world from food-borne illness
A cutting edge environmental mapping module for food safety
Clear Labs is a successful startup already making a big name in the biotech world. They’ve created a testing product that can turn contagion results around in hours, where the competition takes a week to get back to the factory site.
Time is everything in processing factories: Extra days of a contagion roaming free around the factory means that the food has already been taken to distribution centers, sent to stores, and may already be in your fridge. These pathogens strains are e-coli and listeria, and so on.
A regular client of ours at Code and Theory, Clear Labs wanted to add more functionality to their existing platform - to offer their clients tracking capability of pathogens. My role was the Lead UX designer: to design a bespoke floor planning tool for the initial setup in the dashboard, with subsequent assignment, testing, and tracking. I took in the initial requirements, lead client reviews of the wireframes, annotated functionality and flows, and worked closely with the visual designer.
The new environmental mapping modules fits into their existing left rail navigation.
For initial setup, each plant would need to create their own floorplan for each building, adding in walls and rooms and then add in all objects within the building - objects consist of everything from drains to conveyor belts. Once a floorplan is saved, they can set up their remediation protocols and schedule testing for the objects within each building.
Started Floor Plan
Completed Floor Plan
There are several steps to the floor plan creation but summarized here are the first and last screens.
View by Building > Floor > Object
Regular and repeated scheduled testing is a requirement to ensure that any contamination recorded and remediated immediately.
This modal sets up the requirements for testing and the frequency.
The dashboard is essential to viewing historical results and filtering down to a granular level.
The main function of the dashboard is to have an overview of testing, and seeing any positive test results.
The admin would keep track the type of pathogen and where it first appeared in the factory. The power of this level of detail is that the admin can pinpoint a pathogen that happened 3 years ago, track where it travelled to over the factory, what objects it likes to live in, how the remediation processes were carried out, and more.
Once a pathogen is discovered, a remediation process is required to clear the warning. By using their employee ID, we were able to build in more accountability and safety.
A brief process explanation: At Code and Theory, the Interaction Designers, like myself, are responsible to design and define the User Experience. We work closely with the Visual Designers who turn wireframes into world class art. View my wires for Desktop
This project is in development now and should be on the market soon! I would love to talk about this product more if your are interested - it was one of my favorites.