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Software used on a Kanjikode shop floor or in a Palakkad paddy field fails if it is designed for an office; good UX starts with who is really holding the device.
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If you are paying for any software that employees, dealers or growers must use, then yes, in proportion. The test is simple: are people using the system you already paid for, or working around it?
Yes. ERPNext allows role-based forms, custom pages and separate front ends that talk to it through the API. We simplify what each role sees and build dedicated screens where needed, while the standard documents and accounting underneath remain untouched and upgradeable.
Yes, and we test in Malayalam. Labels that fit in English often overflow in Malayalam script, and formal terms may not be what people say. For Palakkad we also consider Tamil, which a good part of the workforce near the border reads more easily.
After a first conversation about the product, its users and the screens or journeys involved, we agree the scope and send you a written quotation. The price, the deliverables and the timeline are fixed against that scope before any work starts, so nothing grows without your sign-off.
You speak to someone who does this work, not a call centre. They ask about the product, who uses it and where they get stuck. If it looks like a fit, we agree the scope and put it in writing, with the timeline, before any work starts. If it does not, we tell you.
Design is rarely the first thing a Palakkad business asks for. Yet bad design costs the district's firms money every day. An operator wearing gloves cannot hit a small button. A supervisor who reads Malayalam better than English guesses at a menu. A grower abandons an app at the registration screen. A handloom society's weavers never open the portal built for them.
Our UI/UX work is practical. We study the users, map the task, test a clickable prototype with real people and hand developers a design system they can build from. It applies to new apps, customer portals, dealer ordering sites and to ERPNext screens that need simplifying for a role. For Palghat clients the brief is nearly always the same: fewer steps, bigger targets, local language and no training manual.
Case studies
Connect N Cabs Tours & Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Connect N Cabs — A Custom Travel ERP That Lifted Fleet Utilisation 35%
EVM Wheels (part of the EVM Group)
EVM Wheels — 70% of Self-Drive Rentals Now Book Themselves Through the App
DSV Global Transport and Logistics
DSV — ERPNext Asset Tagging Cut Untraceable Assets 21%
Standard ERP forms show every field to everyone. A press operator needs three: job, quantity, rejects. A redesigned workstation screen with large controls, colour states and no keyboard entry gets production booked in real time instead of from paper at the end of the shift.
Factories here employ Malayalam and Tamil speakers alongside workers from northern and eastern states. Text-heavy screens defeat them all. Icons, photographs of parts, colour and minimal wording, tested with the actual workforce, make a screen usable across languages.
A manufacturer launches an ordering portal and the dealers keep phoning. Usually the login is awkward and the phone version an afterthought. Redesigning around a shopkeeper's two-minute reorder, on a phone, is what changes the habit.
An example
A designer from Kochi spends a Tuesday at a small engineering unit in a DIC mini estate at Kanjikode. In the morning she stands beside a press operator and watches him book production on paper because the ERP form on the shared PC has forty fields and an English menu. Over lunch she sketches a screen with three large buttons, part photographs instead of codes, and Malayalam and Tamil labels. In the afternoon a prototype runs on a tablet mounted at the press. The operator, still wearing gloves, books a run with one tap and enters rejects with a second. The supervisor asks for the same screen at the next machine. The night shift tests it after she has left.
Design research cannot be done from a distance. We come to Palakkad to watch users at the press, in the godown or on the route, and we return with a prototype to test with the same people. The design work between those visits happens in Kochi, shared with you through online boards where you can comment. Final designs are handed to our developers or yours, with specifications.
Discover and research. Your goals, your users and where they struggle today.
Map the flows. Journeys and structure first, so every screen has a job.
Wireframe. Fast, low-fidelity layouts that get the structure right.
Prototype. Clickable, testable prototypes to sign off before development.
The scope and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
Manufacturing and engineering (Kanjikode)
Touch-friendly job booking, inspection entry and line status screens for the shop floor, designed for glare, gloves and noise, and consistent with the ERPNext data underneath.
Paddy and agriculture
Farmer-facing apps and kiosks in Malayalam with voice prompts and pictures, registration flows cut to the minimum, and receipt screens that a grower can understand at a glance and trust.
Logistics and warehousing
Driver app flows that work one-handed, handheld picking screens readable in a dim godown, and customer tracking pages that answer the only question a consignor has without a second login.
Handloom weaving, Palakkad districtcluster
The district industries office runs dedicated handloom schemes (income support, training, self-employment, master-craftsman pension), so handloom weaving is a recognised traditional sector here.
A traditional sector supported by district schemes, whose weavers and societies get portals that fail at the first screen unless designed in Malayalam for them.
Source: palakkad.nic.inMini industrial estates under DIC Palakkadcluster
Six DIC-controlled mini industrial estates at Kanjikode, Koduvayur, Vadakkencherry, Tarur, Muthalamada and Padur, with sheds let to micro units.
Micro units in these estates run on shared PCs and phones. Simplified, touch-first ERP screens suit them far better than the standard forms built for accountants.
Source: industry.kerala.gov.inGovernment Victoria College, Palakkadinstitution
one of Kerala's oldest colleges (1866), affiliated to the University of Calicut
One of Kerala's oldest colleges, with students and staff who will use any campus portal on a phone. Student-facing design is tested here on real users, not assumed.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPlaces and organisations are named for local context only. Acube Innovations is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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