TYPE OF ENGAGEMENT.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION.
Adobe Design Creative Jams
November 2021 (2 Weeks)
Future Connect is a mobile app for all high-school students to search and apply for volunteer opportunities to fulfill their community service hours. With the use of colors and hierarchy, our app opens to the diverse community, especially friendly to the audience with colorblindness. Future Connect provides educational workshops to increase students' awareness of social issues and the diverse community.
SKILLS & TOOLS.
MY ROLE.
UX Researcher, UX Designer
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD
Conducted market research, competitive analysis, user research to explore potential needs from target audience.
Took lead on developing the storyboard, user flow, and Lo-fi wireframes
Designed brand guide through Adobe Illustrator and Create a UX hi-fi prototype using Adobe XD. Iterated and Finalized the prototype and UIs based on users' feedback.
TEAM.
RANKING & AWARDS.
UX Research: Myself & Wanjing Li
UX Design: Myself & Wanjing Li
This is an Adobe Creative Jam + Amazon competition project that Wanjing Li and I developed in November 2021. In the end, we ranked top 10% out of 430 competitors (215 teams).
Shortlisted in Young Ones ADC Competition in 2023.
PROBLEM STATEMENT.
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
USER RESEARCH.
Before Covid
During/After Covid
IDEA BRAINSTORM & MARKET ANALYSIS.
USER PERSONA.
OPPORTUNITY SPACE.
CRAZY 8 BRAINSTORMING.
APPLICATION FLOW & USER FLOW.
Color Guide.
FINALIZED STYLE GUIDE.
SOLUTION DEMO.
USER GUIDE.
Future Connect provides a user guide for the first time user, which allow them to quickly get starting to use the Apps.
PERSONALIZED FILTERS.
App will automatic provides volunteer options based on users profile and location. With the filters, user will can more refined results based on their personal preference.
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS.
Connect organizations with volunteers and help users understand the benefit and betterment of community services, develop leadership as well as learn skill acquisition through immersive workshops.
FINAL REFLECTION.
Community Service strengthens a sense of community and gives people hope for a post-pandemic future.
This project helped me realize the inherent value of community service and the importance of color blindness community among young people, an often overlooked part of a high school culture. It was eye-opening to interview other high schoolers who wanted to explore deeper sense of volunteer works- community service reminded them of a future when we can help each other and get through the pandemic together.
By conducting research, we found that lacking community service knowledge is one of the key reasons high schoolers don't actively volunteer outside of required hours. We foresee that the educational aspects could be more immersive in our app. For example, during the application process, we could help users learn topics related to their preferred categories by recommending them some workshops in application detail page or notification page. Also, we could use pop-ups to provide a single piece of volunteer knowledge. Thus, users could passively learn more about volunteering.
This project helped me realize the inherent value of community service and the importance of color blindness community among young people, an often overlooked part of a high school culture. It was eye-opening to interview other high schoolers who wanted to explore deeper sense of volunteer works- community service reminded them of a future when we can help each other and get through the pandemic together.
By conducting research, we found that lacking community service knowledge is one of the key reasons high schoolers don't actively volunteer outside of required hours. We foresee that the educational aspects could be more immersive in our app. For example, during the application process, we could help users learn topics related to their preferred categories by recommending them some workshops in application detail page or notification page. Also, we could use pop-ups to provide a single piece of volunteer knowledge. Thus, users could passively learn more about volunteering.