DataReconnAIssance
What it is:
Data ReconnAIssance™ is an AI-enabled accelerator that automates the identification, extraction, and markup of data buried in large volumes of difficult-to-read formats. Data ReconnAIssance™ utilizes advanced text extraction technologies paired with analytics enabled by Natural Language Processing and trained by Booz Allen’s subject matter experts. Data ReconnAIssance™ delivers value across a range of mission areas including, but not limited to, hazardous material identification, supply chain risk management, technical documentation updating and redlining, bill of material generation from technical data, and data validation/anomaly detection. Wherever clients have large volumes of data to survey and analyze at scale, Data ReconnAIssance can reduce processing time from months to minutes.
The Challenge:
Military engineers (and other personnel) spend hundreds of hours manually sifting through technical manuals (TM) to identify various parts required for a bill of materials in order to construct various technologies. This process is also not efficient when the personnel is not aware of exactly how to look in a TM for a specific part name, serial code, weight, dimensions, compatibility, etc. These hundreds of hours cost personnel time, revenue, and energy expended that could be better resourced elsewhere.
Where I came in:
My foci on this project were crafting and streamlining the document submission process for the User, and redesigning the client-facing demo hosted on our internal intranet.
User Flow
The first asset I produces was wireframing the user flow for the process for acquiring the accelerator’s capability.
This clarifies accountability for which swim lane/role various step belongs to, ensuring we can clearly track the journey of the product acquisition and experience.
Demo Website Flow
The screenshots on the right feature the medium-fidelity wireframe build for the online demo. The imagery and colour incorporation acted as placeholders for when the Graphic Design team would move into the high-fidelity iteration stage.
The horizontal screenshot below represents the information architecture template for the GD team so they could keep the organization in mind as they design the experience.
Demo Redesign
The redesign process was fortunately pretty smooth given that we were given a generic, pre-existing (yet outdated) marketing video to work off of. The most challenging part of this redesign was ensuring we were staying on brand (designated palette, language, etc.) while also designing for primarily military audiences who don’t always respond well to “flashy” branding.
Ultimately, we managed to strike the balance between staying military branch agnostic, while staying true to the company’s aesthetic.
User/Customer Portal
The screenshots on the left demonstrate the user flow for the act of processing documentation through the accelerator. The goal was to keep the click count as low and the UI as lean as possible so User’s weren’t overwhelmed by the AI tool’s processing.
Final Demo
The video on the right features the final demo product, though it’s not made available for public access (only for scheduled client demonstration).