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Explaining a technical drone-spraying service in language a farmer trusts.

Research → Design → BuildShipped
General Aeronautics marketing website shown across desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone

Product Agri-Drone Company Website

The brand-to-launch marketing website for an agricultural drone company, spanning research, wireframes, visual design, and a live WordPress build.

Research, wireframing, design & development
role
Lead designer, with 1 designer
team
6 months
timeline
WordPress, Elementor
tools
Marketing site · Brand to launch
scope

Problem Too Technical, Too Fast

Drone-spraying is an unfamiliar, technical service to most of the audience it needed to reach.

Solution A Narrative, Not a Spec Sheet

I structured the site around what the service does for a farmer first, technical detail second, then built and shipped it live in WordPress.

Result Shipped End to End

Shipped brand-to-launch as a live WordPress and Elementor site, designed and built end to end without a separate developer handoff.

Live
Brand to launch
shipped end to end
1 build
WordPress + Elementor
no separate dev handoff
The brief

Explain a technical drone service in language a farmer trusts, without dumbing it down.

Drone spraying is unfamiliar to most of the farmers and partners General Aeronautics needs to reach. The temptation with a technical product is to lead with the technology.

The brief was a marketing website from brand to launch. I led it with 1 designer over 6 months, from research and information architecture to wireframes, visual design and a live WordPress and Elementor build.

Research

Start with who has to be convinced

and what they need to see before they get in touch
Stakeholder interviewsCompetitor reviewPersonasInformation architectureSketching

I worked with the General Aeronautics team on who the site had to reach, and reviewed how other agri-drone companies presented their services.

Three insights that shaped the design
Insight 1

Farmers buy outcomes, not drones

What changes for the farm matters more than the specifications of the aircraft.

Insight 2

Proof beats claims

Real fields and real mission numbers make the service believable.

Insight 3

One clear next step

Visitors who are interested need an obvious, short way to get in touch.

Users

The farmer, and the person who speaks for many farmers

a smallholder farmer and an FPO leader

Two personas in the same FigJam format. They came from the GA team's field experience with farmers and farmer groups.

Persona Ramesh, a farmer with 12 acres of paddy: bio and personality sliders
More about Ramesh: interests, influences, goals, challenges, motivations, pain points and frustrations
Designed forBenefits in plain words first, real field footage, and a short way to get in touch.
Journey map

Where interest turned into doubt

from hearing about drone spraying to getting in touch
HearSearchUnderstandTrustContact
DoingHears about drone sprayingLooks up General AeronauticsReads what the service doesLooks for proofGets in touch
PainUnsure what it isSites that lead with specsTechnical wordsNo real fields or numbersNo clear next step
Design responseA benefit-first home pageAgriculture right after HomePlain words, detail further downReal mission data over real fieldsA short contact form
Reframing the problem

From "show the technology" to "show what changes for the farm"

The first instinct was a site about the aircraft. The people who decide are farmers and the groups that represent them, so the site leads with the outcome and lets the technical detail earn its place further down.

How might we
How might we make a technical drone service feel approachable and credible to a farmer, without dumbing it down?
In scope
  • Information architecture
  • Wireframes
  • Visual design
  • Responsive WordPress and Elementor build
Later
  • Farmer testimonials and case photos
Site structure

Farming first

the order of the navigation is the order of the story
  1. HomeWhat changes for the farm
  2. AgricultureThe spraying service and mission data
  3. InnovationUAV design and other work
  4. About usThe company and team
  5. Contact usOne short form
Sketches

Structure and pages on paper first

the sitemap, then one sketch per key page

I sketched the sitemap and the key pages before designing in detail. The notes in the margins are the job of each page.

Sketch of the sitemap from Home to Agriculture, Innovation, About us and Contact us
1Sitemap: Agriculture right after Home
Sketch of the home page with a field video hero, one-line benefit and three cards
2Home: benefit first, detail later
Sketch of three steps and mission data cards over field footage
3Agriculture: how it works, with real mission data
Sketch of the contact page with details on the left and a short form on the right
4Contact: one short form
Key decisions

Two decisions that shaped the experience

Decision 1

Lead with the farm, not the aircraft

The home page opens on real field footage and a single line about what drone spraying does for agriculture. Technical detail comes further down, for the people who want it.

General Aeronautics website on desktop, laptop, tablet and phone with a drone over a green field
Decision 2

Make the data feel real

Payload, droplet size, flow rate and coordinates sit as glass cards over real field footage, so the technology reads as tangible rather than abstract.

Mission statistics as glass cards over drone field footage
Leading the work

Lead designer, one designer, research to live site

I led the research, information architecture and visual design with one designer, and built the site in WordPress and Elementor, so there was no separate developer handoff. We reviewed each page with the General Aeronautics team before launch.

Final design: key screens

Making the Data Feel Alive

mission stats, laid over the actual field

Flight parameters and live mission data, including payload, droplet size, flow rate, and coordinates, are presented as clean glass cards over real field footage, so the technology reads as tangible rather than abstract.

Outcome

Live, so the sales call does not start from zero.

The website shipped brand to launch as a live, responsive WordPress and Elementor site.

What I learned

For an unfamiliar service, proof does more than persuasion. Real fields and real numbers did more work than any headline.

What I'd do next

Add a farmer testimonial or case photo, since that is the single biggest trust signal this site is still missing.

The site does the explaining now, so the sales call doesn't have to start from zero.

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