Roles: UI / UX Engineer, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Researcher
Type: Human-Technology Interface, Usable
Tools: Figma, Adobe Illustrate, Procreate
Team: Frontida Records
Mentors: Lauren Yen, Ria Xi, Laura Roed
Duration: Summer (May 2022 - Aug 2022)
I had the opportunity to collaborate with non-profit leaders within a company that concentrated on creating apps for underrepresented communities facing high levels of stress, including refugee camps. My role involved working within the User Interface and Research Team Department to drive innovation in the apps being deployed in Jordan, Chile, and Ukraine. Specifically, my focus was on enhancing the apps' accessibility to people in these regions. Although we had resolved the language barrier by translating our apps, I helped tackle the challenge of making the interface visually comprehensible to illiterate individuals.
<aside> 📌 Although the particular dialogues and statements remain confidential, the following outcome was achieved after hours of meetings and extensive documentation with the leaders and their constituents. We tailored the programs to meet the communities' preferences and requirements.
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<aside> 📱 I encountered some major challenges during this project, namely: designing apps that were both visually and linguistically accessible, as some of the communities using them were illiterate. Additionally, I had to develop programs that met the varied needs of different organizations which used the applications for different purposes:
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