Person holding a smartphone displaying a form from Agriculture Victoria's Victorian Animal Disease Notification. The form includes fields for property owner's name, street address, suburb, and postcode.

Notify Now App

Redeveloping the Notify Now app with a modern UI and UX enhancements

Client

Agriculture Victoria

Agency

Bound

Wireframing, UI Design, Brand Application

Category

Background

The Notify Now app simplifies the process of reporting notifiable animal diseases, enabling veterinarians, farmers, and animal owners to promptly alert authorities. By facilitating the rapid communication of suspected cases to Agriculture Victoria’s Chief Veterinary Officer, the app helps accelerate response times, enhance disease monitoring, and strengthen containment efforts.

The Problem

The current version of the Notify Now app has remained unchanged for several years, lacking technical enhancements or design updates. To address this, Agriculture Victoria plans for a comprehensive redevelopment, introducing modern UI and an entirely new code base. This upgrade aims to future-proof the platform, ensuring it remains reliable, efficient, and adaptable to emerging biosecurity challenges.

My Role

As the sole designer on this project, I managed the entire process from initial exploration to final implementation. This included conducting client briefings, conceptualising improvements, presenting ideas, and refining them into the final designs. I collaborated closely with the development team to align on project requirements and execution, ensuring smooth integration of design and development for a polished final product.

Person holding a smartphone displaying Agriculture Victoria app with "Notify Now" button on screen.
Person in work overalls standing near a tractor and livestock trailer in a grassy field.

The Notify Now app was designed with a straightforward user interface (UI) to facilitate quick and efficient disease reporting. The current version features a basic, no-frills layout, prioritising functionality over aesthetics. While the interface is simple, it lacks modern design elements that could enhance usability, such as intuitive navigation, streamlined workflows, and visually clear data presentation.

From a user experience (UX) perspective, the app effectively serves its core purpose, enabling fast disease notifications, but presents challenges in terms of ease of use and efficiency. Some users may find the reporting process less intuitive, with a dated interface and limited interactivity.

Current Version

Animal type selection interface with icons for birds, companion animals, fish and aquatic, horses, laboratory animals, livestock, wildlife, zoo animals, and others.
A screenshot of Agriculture Victoria's webpage about notifiable animal diseases, including a header with the logo, text explaining the importance of reporting such diseases under the Livestock Disease Control Act (1994), and buttons labeled "List of Notifiable Diseases" and "Notify Now."
Victorian Animal Disease Notification app interface including options to notify now, call emergency hotline, learn about notifiable diseases, list of notifiable diseases, provide feedback, and terms and conditions.
Map interface with location marker near Bacchus Marsh, Australia, and options to upload an animal photo with buttons for using location and proceeding to the next step.
Figma design interface showing various screen layouts for a DEECA app redesign. The designs include form pages, maps, and user interface elements arranged in a grid. The left panel displays file and layer options, and the right panel contains prototype settings.
Victorian Animal Disease Notification webpage with text on the importance of early disease reporting to prevent spread. It includes a button for a list of notifiable diseases and details for the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline, 1800 675 888. The bottom menu has icons for Home, Disease Info, Notify, Call Hotline, and Feedback.
Incident location map indicating an affected animal at 65 Majorca Rd, Talbot VIC 3371, with navigation buttons.
Victorian Animal Disease Notification screen displaying animal categories for selection: Birds, Companion, Fish & Aquatic, Horses, Laboratory, Livestock, Wildlife, Zoo, and Other. Includes buttons for "Back" and "Next."
Victorian Animal Disease Notification form showing signs of disease in blackbirds. Sick: 22, Dead: 0, At risk: 0. Options to select clinical signs and describe them, with character limit indicated. Back and Next navigation buttons present.
Screenshot of the Victorian Animal Disease Notification form by Agriculture Victoria, focusing on bird species. It includes fields for selecting the bird species, additional species information, date of onset of signs, number of animals affected, and age of affected livestock.
Mobile form for Victorian Animal Disease Notification by Agriculture Victoria. Includes fields for lab submission details like "Were the specimens sent to a laboratory for analysis?" with Yes/No options, "Which laboratory," "Name of laboratory," and "Laboratory suburb." Navigation buttons for 'Back' and 'Next' are present.
Close-up of a smartphone screen displaying apps like Calendar, Photos, Notify Now, Mail, and Notes on a glittery background. The time on the device shows 9:41.
Smartphone displaying an app for Victorian Animal Disease Notification with options to add photos of affected animals. The screen shows buttons for "Take photo" and "Select photo," and thumbnails of animal images.

The redevelopment of the Notify Now app marks a significant step toward improving biosecurity reporting in Victoria. By replacing the outdated UI and enhancing the overall user experience, the new version ensures that veterinarians, farmers, and animal owners can report notifiable diseases more efficiently and accurately.

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