📖 Research | 🧠 Brainstorming & Userflow | ✏️ Wireframes | 📱 Prototype

Overview


This group project was part of a design competition hosted by Adobe and Amazon (Creative Jam). Our challenge was to design an inclusive experience in a third-party mobile app for high school students looking for opportunities to fulfill community service hours or volunteer to help their local community, no matter what their background or ability. The final prototype received a honorable mention (Top 20 out of 400+ teams👑).

Research & Goals


After our online research, we found many volunteer organizations. If a student wanted to a find suitable volunteer activity, they would have to visit multiple websites to find the information they were looking for. We also learned that the most common questions users asked were: What volunteer activities can high school students do? Where can high school students get information about volunteer opportunities?
Ideally, the goal was to build an app that benefits both volunteers and volunteer organizations, and bridges the gap between them. Volunteer organizations can publish their volunteer activities on the app while volunteers can filter the location and type of volunteer activity from a wide range of activities published by organizations. However, due to the competition time limitations, we focused on designing the project from the volunteer's perspective.

 

Prototype




Reflection


This is the first time I participated in a UI/UX design competition outside of school. It was a valuable learning experience because I focused on doing research from a user's perspective in order to problem solve. I believe there is a real gap between the students and the volunteer organizations and an app like this could help integrate all the information and make the process easy and engaging. Overall it was an enjoyable experience working on this project!

 


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