June Progress Report.
UI/UX Progress:
Supply Chain Management Dashboard:
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Updated User Profile Screen: The user profile screen in the Supply Chain Management Dashboard has been enhanced and brought up-to-date. This update includes improvements in design, functionality, and user experience to ensure a more intuitive and efficient profile management process.
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Added Payments & Subscription Screen: A new screen dedicated to payments and subscription management has been incorporated into the Supply Chain Management Dashboard. This addition allows users to easily handle their payment details, view subscription information, and manage their billing preferences within the system.
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Added and Improved Microinteractions: Microinteractions, which are subtle animations or feedback mechanisms, have been introduced and enhanced throughout the Supply Chain Management Dashboard. These micro-interactions provide users with visual cues, confirmations, and engaging feedback, resulting in a more interactive and delightful user experience.
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Improved and Updated Interaction Flow: The interaction flow within the Supply Chain Management Dashboard has been improved and updated. This refinement ensures that users can navigate through the system more seamlessly, with logical progressions and clear paths to accomplish their tasks efficiently.
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Added Order Management Module: A new order management module has been integrated into the Supply Chain Management Dashboard. This module allows users to oversee and manage orders throughout the supply chain process, providing comprehensive visibility and control over the order fulfilment process.
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Added Order Management Module Microinteractions: Microinteractions specifically designed for order management have been introduced to the Supply Chain Management Dashboard. These microinteractions offer real-time updates, notifications, and intuitive actions related to order processing, resulting in a more streamlined and informed order management experience.
Supply-chain Management Dashboard URL
Cross Border Payments Dashboard:
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Created User Flow & Architecture: The user flow and system architecture for the Cross Border Payments Dashboard have been meticulously designed and developed. This process involved mapping out the user journey and structuring the underlying framework to ensure a smooth and logical flow of actions within the dashboard.
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Created High-Fidelity Dashboard: A high-fidelity dashboard has been created for the Cross Border Payments Dashboard. This dashboard features a polished and visually appealing interface, with refined typography, color schemes, and layout, contributing to an aesthetically pleasing and professional user interface.
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Added Microinteractions: Microinteractions have been implemented within the Cross Border Payments Dashboard. These microinteractions offer subtle animations and feedback to enhance the user experience and provide visual cues during interactions, resulting in a more engaging and interactive interface.
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Conducting Usability Testing - WIP: Usability testing is currently in progress for the Cross Border Payments Dashboard. This ongoing process involves evaluating the user interface, interactions, and overall usability of the dashboard. Feedback and insights gathered from this testing will be used to further refine and optimize the dashboard for enhanced user satisfaction and effectiveness.
Cross-border payment Dashboard URL
The usability testing for the Cross Border Payments Dashboard is still ongoing, and further improvements may be implemented based on the results of the testing.
Frontend Progress:
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Integrated Magic Auth - Generating a JSON Web Token on successful authentication and logging in and whitelisting a user on the platform.
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Biconomy Smart Account - Integrated Biconomy SDK’s smart account to provide a smart account address to the end user through which all blockchain transactions will be done which will be sponsored by Autify Network’s Paymaster.
Login page URL: https://dash.autifynetwork.com/auth/admin-login
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Dashboard UI - Developed an end-user dashboard depicting “Business Analytics” data to make it easier for end-users to get a glimpse of whatever’s happening at a glance.
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Data Table components - A standardized table component according to the theme that is modular enough to be re-utilized wherever needed on the platform.
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Doughnut charts using Chart.js - Providing analytics data to the end-user.
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Category and Sub-Category setup module.
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Image resize and upload components - Providing the functionality to resize images and upload them to Sia.
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Search components within data tables.
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Product setup module - UI for adding Product SKUs and attributes.
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Bulk import product data - Added functionality to bulk import CSV data that can populate products quickly.
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Knowledge base UI - FAQ page.
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Completed the KYB Module.
Dashboard URL: https://dash.autifynetwork.com/dashboard
Backend Progress:
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Magic Auth - Implimanded the JSON Web Token with backend User Relationship Mapping.
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Biconomy Smart Account - Integrated smart account address from Biconomy SDKs from frontend and stored the transaction details for digital twins.
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Product Management - Developed product transactional APIs that are being used in frontend displaying the flow state of any given product.
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User Management - A standardized Many to Many relationships depicting all types of user flows throughout the platform.
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Unwanted Access Block - Spam protection and Black&White-Listing throughout the onboarding process.
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Development CI - Setup up a place CI server for development and testing.
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Image Input & Upload - Handling the functionality to input images and upload them to Sia.
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Sia Storage - Storing all product metadata on Sia (in progress, will be in working from alpha staging - Dashboard Beta pilot).
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Admin Panel - Internal controller to control decision-based actions.
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Infra workflow - using EKS to run the internal development server.
Please be aware that the server includes APIs that can be accessed without the need for security keys. However, APIs requiring transactional keys or those that need to be used with security keys have been segregated from the public development server. Once we have completed the first phase MVP, these APIs will be utilized effectively.
Business and Marketing Progress:
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Factory Visits: Our Product team conducted several factory visits at Tirupur and Coimbatore, the cotton and textile industry hubs in Tamil Nadu, India to gain valuable insights into the production processes and understand the specific needs and challenges of our target market.
These visits allowed us to establish relationships with key stakeholders and gather firsthand information to inform our product development decisions.
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Potential Client Engagement: We have actively engaged with potential clients in our target industry to gather feedback on our product concept and understand their pain points and requirements.
The initial response has been encouraging, with a high level of interest and enthusiasm from potential clients about our solution. The total number of potential prospects approached twenty to validate and test out our minimum viable product (MVP). Mode of contact, physical visits, telephonic conversations, and virtual meetings.
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Pilot Project and business case study: We are thrilled to announce that we have successfully initiated discussions with one of our potential clients for a pilot project. The final shape of the agreement is yet to be finalized. The client is Carrefour Global Sourcing, an office based in Coimbatore.
This pilot project will serve as a valuable opportunity to validate our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in a real-world setting and gather feedback for further enhancements.
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Product Enhancements: Based on feedback from factory visits, potential clients, and ongoing validation, we have identified key areas for product enhancements.
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Our development team is actively working on incorporating these improvements to ensure that our solution meets the specific needs of our target market.
Marketing Progress:
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In June, our primary concentration was conducting more customer development calls and gaining user insight for our upcoming MVP launch. We successfully onboarded 50+ new B2B customers, who is set to participate in our upcoming MVP launch.
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Our presence on Twitter has seen remarkable growth, with a threefold increase in followers and a tenfold surge in profile visits. This has been particularly noticeable within the sustainable fashion and blockchain communities.
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Autify Network has expanded its global reach and recently participated in the latest Web3 Meetup held in Dubai, joining a vibrant ecosystem of innovators and leaders.
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We have established co-marketing and outreach initiatives, which include a Twitter space with Biconomy & the creator of the ERC-2535 (Diamond Standard).
Work in Progress:
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We have integrated and tested Sia and are currently in the process of migrating to productions before the first phase launch (1st week of Aug 2023).
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Separating the codes part of this grant from the main Supply-chain management repos and open-source it. We aim to achieve this in the next few weeks.
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Integrate Sia on other upcoming products like Cross-border payment and Vendor aggregator platforms.
By the end of July, we anticipate completing the initial phase of our product development. Subsequently, in the first week of August, we are planning to launch our platform and migrate customers.