ICPP 2018

The ICPP 2018 mobile app was designed and developed with equal thoughts in form and function. ICPP 2018 is part of an annual meeting series put on by The American Phytopathological Society (APS). APS is a non-profit organization focused on promoting education on plant health and plant disease around the world. The majority of the membership demographic is heavily based in technical science and how it applies in the real world to better plant health.

The mobile app was designed to function to aid way-finding, scheduling, planning, and problem solving with a focus in ease of use. The splash screens welcomes you with the ICPP branding which include the dates of the meeting. Within the app, there is a clean iconic home screen with easy one-click navigation to locate anything from the speakers for that day, the list of abstracts and poster presentations, way-finding, scheduling and more. The app was used as a sister piece to the physical printed program book (which has been used for the past 60+ years) that contained the same information but the app created a much faster and easy to use system. On top of that, it was built on a format to reuse the wireframe for the coming years so it is also more cost efficient than the printed program which typically ranges anywhere from 70-110 pages.

Overall, this project was an immense challenge to implement but created a more seamless, efficient interaction. We were initially worried about the success rate within the member demographic but had positive results on a post-meeting survey.