ABOUT THE PROJECT

Elections are a huge deal not just for the general population of the country but also for the police. Managing safety around polls, going on patrolling and being able to locate all the polls with their details in one place is a big challenge for the law enforcers. With this problem, the police of the city of Vellore reached out to a community I was a part of to fix it. Building a central application where the police force can jump into to see all the polls on the map. Superiors were also able to track all the patrolling cars on the map as well.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Making elections in India especially in the state of Tamil Nadu. Giving the police force the power to see where all they are and locate polls fast and easily.

BUILDING A DESIGN SYSTEM

The colour and font system was made with the idea in mind that users would be police people who aren’t the most technically sound as well as making sure the fonts were multilingual if that was added later for ease of use for local people. The colours were kept simple and clean to communicate click actions and data points in a simple way.

GENERAL COLOURS

THEME COLOURS

FONT FAMILY

PRE DESIGN PLANNING

USER JOURNEY

There were three general flows that were to be planned in the application. Login flow was very simple like most applications while the police on duty and police in charge flows had different features based on the type of user it is.

The main aim was to see details of the track police vehicles. The end goals marked with green were navigated to with simple actions planning the user journey.

APPLICATION USAGE PLAN

The application was planned in a way where we could easily first select the district from a list on top but also have the option to see the districts on the map at the bottom.

Once selected it simply zooms into the map and shows all the polls on the map which can be clicked on to get details about them. Keeping the click actions simple and easy for an audience that isn’t very savvy with modern applications.

DESIGN SCREENS

There were three districts we wanted to cover and the idea was to let the police know what district they are viewing even after entering it. Each district was given their own colour and then that theme was moved along to the process further. The themes, background and containers were given colours which would make sure the plain black text would be easy to read.