Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko by Simone Ardito

Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko by Simone Ardito is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award in Tekinorojii yeFoni, Maapurikesheni neSofutiweya Competition Category.

SirivhaFoni· 2021

Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko

by Simone Ardito

Client: Simone Ardito

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award Winner in Foni Category

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The Design

About Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko

Color Terrae iapplication yepafoni yevanoongorora zvinhu zvekare (archaeologists). Application iyi inoshandura kuita zvedhijitari kuzivikanwa, kuongorora, kurongedza uye kutsanangura zvikwata zvematombo (stratigraphic units) zvichitevera kodhi yeruvara yeMunsell. Basa rekuona ruvara rakavakirwa pahungwaru hwekugadzirwa (artificial intelligence) rinoverenga mifananidzo yakatorwa nemushandisi uye rinobatanidza chikwata chega chega chematombo kune kodhi yakananga yeruvara. Chikamu cheDhiary chinoshanda sebhuku rekunyorera uye sedura remifananidzo rezvinyorwa, mameseji ezwi uye mifananidzo. Dig Mode inopa interface yakagadziridzwa yekushandisa panze pamazuva ekuchera.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko, rukudzo rwakakwirira zvikuru runopiwa kumadhizaini epamusoro, anonaka uye anofadza. Vakunda veSirivha mabasa anopenya kwazvo uye ane kugadzira kwakasiyana anoratidza unyanzvi, hunyanzvi hwekusikwa nekungwara kwevagadziri vawo. Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko inotarisirwa kuva basa rinoshamisa, rinotangira vamwe, rine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva zvakadzika. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award chigadzirwa chinoshamisa, chinokudzwa chinobatsira uye chinosundira mberi miganhu yehunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji. Color Terrae Primary Function: Puratji reMuchina Wemaoko chigadzirwa chinoshuvirwa nevazhinji, chinomutsa zvishuvo, chinouya nemanzwiro akanaka uye chinomutsa kushamisika.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Color Terrae is an AI-powered app created to optimize archaeologist's workflow by replacing the current inefficient paper-based processes.
AI technology comes into play with a color detection function: it is able to identify colors from photographs taken by the user, and to associate the photographed stratigraphic unit to a specific color code. Furthermore, Color Terrae offers the chance to switch to Dig Mode, an outdoor-optimized version of the app which can be really useful on dig days.
Dimensions & Packaging: When a picture is taken, AI technology analyses it and samples pixel by pixel in order to get the matching color unit related to a Munsell color code.
There are 1000 hex color codes learned by the AI. Since most of them are pretty similar, they are grouped in 100 color units.
Each color unit belongs to a Munsell color. Most hex color codes detected within a color unit will indicate the "winning" unit which is associated with a specific Munsell color.
Tags: Archaeology, Digital Innovation, Use of Technology, User Experience, App Design, Artificial Intelligence
Production Technology: From pencil to pixels to code. The project started from rough sketches on paper sheets, then it moved to digital meeting the following softwares:
Adobe Illustrator (logo and brand identity), Sketch (wireframes, hi-fi mockups and prototype), Xcode with Swift UI (app), Core ML and Python (AI colors detector).
Design Challenge: The most challenging part was to bring to digital the current paper-based process without altering the user experience.
In fact by using this app the archeologist should not change his workflow, but willingly follow the same process used previously on paper, now on digital. Understanding all the human and technical pain points has been crucial in order to come up with an appropriate digital solution.
Research: Results from interviews, researches and user tests established that a mobile app could help the archaeologist in at least three different phases:
1. During the archaeological excavation, recognise the different layers, distinguish between them and note their characteristics.
2. During documentation to assign univocal color codes to the layers to avoid confusion or misunderstandings.
3. During the study phase of the site, which usually takes place several months after the excavation and fieldworks.
Inspiration: The project comes from the desire to bring innovation in areas where digital technology is not much explored, such as archaeology.
Color Terrae indeed allows to digitalize some of the main activities of the archaeologist: identification, analysis, classification and description of stratigraphic units following the Munsell color code.
Project Duration: The project started in the last quarter of 2020 and had its first demo release and test phase in February 2021 in Lugano, Switzerland.
Operation Flow: Once the app is launched, the user can interact with the main area, Diary, launch the Camera, or switch to Dig Mode through settings.
Diary, as the name may suggest, works as a notebook, but also as a photographic archive. Here user can write or record his thoughts during the day at the dig, and save all the pictures he has taken. In order to have a well structured archive, all the files (notes, voice memo and pics) are divided in three sections: recents, lists and all.