Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim’s animal health business serves the people who run large livestock operations. For its US swine business, the company built a mobile platform for pig producers, one of its most valuable customer groups.

Pommer Design led the product experience, from the first farm visits to release.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s animal health business serves the people who run large livestock operations. For its US swine business, the company built a mobile platform for pig producers, one of its most valuable customer groups.

Pommer Design led the product experience, from the first farm visits to release.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s animal health business serves the people who run large livestock operations. For its US swine business, the company built a mobile platform for pig producers, one of its most valuable customer groups.

Pommer Design led the product experience, from the first farm visits to release.

Illustrative interface views: FARMERA sites, site detail, treatments, alerts and the iPad dashboard
Illustrative interface views: FARMERA sites, site detail, treatments, alerts and the iPad dashboard

Year

2019

Client

Boehringer Ingelheim

Category

Pharma

Duration

1 year
Objective
Objective

Boehringer Ingelheim wanted software to become part of its animal health business. The brief: a mobile app for US swine producers that works in the daily routine of an industrial farm.

Role
Role

The scope: user flows, information architecture, design language and visual design, based on research on working farms across the United States.

Illustrative interface: FARMERA sites list and site detail with mortality, temperature, water and feed
Approach
Approach

Requirements came from the farms. Pommer Design tested concepts with producers on site and reworked them until they held up there.

Illustrative interface: FARMERA dashboard with the health index, site map and mortality target
Outcome
Outcome

The platform came through a beta under heavy use and constant iteration. It now runs on hundreds of large pig farms in the United States.

Illustrative interface: treatments on a site and the alerts that need action

Illustrative views. Client work is confidential.

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Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

03

//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

03

//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

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Interaction design for enterprise platforms and operational tools. Tell us about your project.

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Interaction design for enterprise platforms and operational tools. Tell us about your project.

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Frankfurt and London. Operating worldwide

Interaction design since 2010

Interaction design for enterprise platforms and operational tools. Tell us about your project.