5G cloud farm

The overview of the project

In this projects, I hope to design an app that can help rural people and involve urban people to form a win-win situation, and also increase the opportunity for poor areas to communicate with the outside world. The final outcome of this design is an app. The user rents the farmer's land through the app. During this time, the farmer will help the user with various tasks and operations, such as planting, managing and trading. The regular user will temporarily become the owner of the land, during which time the revenue from the land will belong to the regular user, but the farmer will receive a salary well above their usual income for completing these tasks. They can also get the opportunity to communicate with the outside world, as well as learn advanced techniques and ideas, and improve their vision and aesthetic skills. This can be a win-win situation for both users and farmers. The name of this application is 5G Cloud Farm.

The motivation and background

1. China's rural revitalization and poverty alleviation strategy, we can often see similar content in news agencies.

2. Through my research I found that many of the rural population work in other areas and they rent out their land to others to look after. This gave me inspiration.

3.There is a growing number of design practitioners and educators who are working on design for the poor.

Methodology

This study uses a practice-based research approach and structures the structure is based on the double diamond model process.This research needs to understand the real needs of people in poor and rural areas and to understand the economic situation and internet access in their areas and to design for these people, hence the need for a variety of practice-based research. This study focuses on agriculture, economic conditions, the relationship between design and poverty alleviation, the needs of poor people and the attitudes of people in other regions. To better understand this information, a certain amount of data and analysis is needed, so this study uses both primary and secondary research.

This study uses a practice-based research approach and structures the structure is based on the double diamond model process.

Questionnaire

Regarding the questionnaire, I set 16 questions. It contains the user's knowledge about the design of poverty alleviation, agriculture and rural areas, people's opinion about this mode of operation of this project, their opinion about the lease amount and their interest in the design of the app.

Interview

Here are a few different interviewees, who are university teachers, designers and students. They talked about their views on designing for poverty alleviation and rural revitalisation and told me what they thought were the key aspects of this. They also told me a lot of information about the living conditions of rural people.

I also spoke with a poverty alleviation team from Soochow University who showed me some of their poverty alleviation achievements and designs.

This is a village arts festival I visited

Secondary research

I found some data reflecting the economic situation in rural China which show that the urban-rural divide in China is still very large, but that China has a very high level of Internet penetration, with good coverage in most rural areas. In addition, the data also shows that digital agriculture has a very good future

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Analysis

About the interview, like the feedback obtained from the questionnaire, they consider the quality of the produce and the price of the rent to be very important, with the price determining whether users will accept it and the income of the farmers. In an interview with a designer from the countryside, I was able to obtain crucial data and he told me about the farmer and how much he could accept so that I could refer to this price and make sure that the price was not too high for the average user. Secondly, for the app, the target audience should be analysed. The app needs to be feature-rich and attractive to ensure that it can attract a wider variety of users. In addition, it is very important for the countryside to be able to let more people know about them and come into the countryside in order to create more business value and for the countryside to communicate and promote itself to the outside world. Therefore, social features also need to be taken into account in the design of the app.

With the data from the interviews, combined with my previous analysis charts, I started the studio work. This diagram is my thought process during the design of the app. At the beginning, I did not intend to design many features regarding the app, but after the interviews and surveys, many of the interviewees and I agreed that rich functionality and technical appeal were important, so I added more features to allow users to communicate with each other and form a community. An online Q&A with experts was also added. This is a draft of the app design, which contains the basic patterns of the app. Here are also some basic frameworks.

Prototyping