Overview
The Workover Operations app by Foresea was developed to address a critical issue in offshore operations: updating the status of well valve openings and closings based on schematic drawings for each well. This enables teams outside the platform to monitor work in real time while also improving internal operational management.
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💪 Team: Isabel Freitas (Solo Project)
🛠️ Tools: Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
📅 Project Duration: 1 month
🛠️ Tools: Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
📅 Project Duration: 1 month
🎯 Activities: Style Guide creation, user flows & information architecture, interface prototyping.
Desk Research
The first step in any UX project begins with research. After the project kick-off, we conducted meetings with stakeholders to understand the existing workflow and how updates were being tracked.
We identified that there was no platform capable of offering a managerial, analytical, and technical interface. Operations were completely decentralized, leading to data loss and a lack of transparency in monitoring.
Based on these meetings, we mapped out the stakeholders and their workflows, gathering valuable insights that helped shape the product and solve the problem of information decentralization.
Personas
Three key personas were identified for this project: Driller, Administrator, and Consultant. Each plays a distinct role in the application:
Administrator: Responsible for registering users, wells, and schematic drawings, as well as adding valves and monitoring operational status. They use the system via desktop and have a managerial-level role.
Driller: Works offshore and is responsible for opening and closing valves as needed. The app is an essential tool for their daily tasks and is accessed via tablet.
Consultant: Does not actively interact with the system but has permission to view real-time operations and access historical data.
Driller: Works offshore and is responsible for opening and closing valves as needed. The app is an essential tool for their daily tasks and is accessed via tablet.
Consultant: Does not actively interact with the system but has permission to view real-time operations and access historical data.
Administrator
The Administrator required a comprehensive view of all registered wells, making this the main screen of the application. The top menu includes three options: Wells, Users, and History.
Within each well, multiple schematic drawings could be uploaded, displaying the valve positions. These drawings were created in external software and imported as PNG images. To facilitate editing, we developed a valve editor, allowing the Administrator to add, modify, or remove valves as needed. Each valve can be horizontal or vertical and have different states (open or closed).
The History tab provides an overview of all actions performed by Drillers, while the Users tab allows for permission management, user addition, or removal.
Driller
For the Driller, the Users tab was removed, as user management is not part of their role. Their interface mirrors their fieldwork, displaying a list of wells under their responsibility. By selecting a well, they can view the corresponding schematic drawings and interact with the valves to update their status. These changes are automatically recorded in the history.
Consultant
The Consultant has a passive role, only monitoring operations in real time. Their interface was simplified, keeping only the History tab while removing the Wells tab, as they do not manage operations.
Project
A key factor in the project’s success was ensuring continuous alignment with the development team, understanding technical limitations, and ensuring the feasibility of proposed solutions. To achieve this, we held frequent meetings with backend and frontend developers, ensuring the interface was aligned with technical possibilities. Bootstrap was chosen as the primary framework.
Prototyping
After validating our research, we started prototyping, dividing the project into three stages, each corresponding to one of the user flows. The first flow developed was the Administrator's, as it was identified as the most complex.
Results
The final result is an app that simplifies and centralizes offshore operations, improving stakeholder communication and ensuring transparency.
For the Administrator, it streamlines well management and operational tracking.
For the Driller, it facilitates fieldwork and status reporting.
For the Consultant, it provides real-time operational visibility.