Abby Cracraft
RECOVERY
Branding, UX Research, UI Design, Prototyping
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Using a co-operative design method, a UX study was conducted to identify a potential problem that Coloradans between the age of 18-24 may have had. The results came in that they wanted an easier resource that compiled recovery information for victims of a natural disaster.
This was of interest to the demographic due to a recent natural disaster that had struck Boulder, Colorado called the Marshall Fire a couple months before this study was conducted.
SOLUTION
To create a resource that can be used by any generation or demographic to help victims of natural disasters find resources for questions and concerns involving federal, state, and government programs. The website aimed to give a better experience and to simplify the process of recovery from a natural disaster.
Due to the size of this project, the main components of the cooperative research, high fidelity design, and user testing will be focused on. The preliminary research was done with cooperation from the demographic of Coloradans from the ages 18-24.
COOPERATIVE DESIGN
Many of the participants of the cooperative study came up with different issues that they had experienced. The most common one (26.4%) was to have a centralized location for resources towards recovery of a natural disaster, but there were also trends in skiing or winter sport related issues (20%), such as lodging or price of gear to do these activities. The other group with more than one response was in reference to social issues such as mental health (13%) or loneliness (13%).
HIGH FIDELITY DESIGN
By bringing in photos, distinct colors and a strong brand identity, it brightened up the design and gave it more room to breathe. The sizing of the pages became the main area of concern before this point, but as the high-fidelity designs began to take shape, the formatting became smaller and more consistent throughout the pages.
Upon the finalized design being created, along with the user interactions being implemented, there was a test of 4 users in the same demographics as the initial cooperative design form to get their experience on using the website.
The main results of that were positive feedback towards the logical layout of the navigation, and the clean simple interface that was felt as necessary towards a website of this nature.
One piece of feedback was the consideration that this design may not have been effective for users who have do not frequently use the internet. The sidebar navigation could be confusing for those cases. If there was more time and resources for this project, the next step would have been to take in more user testing from the older demographic to ensure that this was not the case.
RECOVERY
Branding, UX Research, UI Design, Prototyping
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Using a co-operative design method, a UX study was conducted to identify a potential problem that Coloradans between the age of 18-24 may have had. The results came in that they wanted an easier resource that compiled recovery information for victims of a natural disaster.
This was of interest to the demographic due to a recent natural disaster that had struck Boulder, Colorado called the Marshall Fire a couple months before this study was conducted.
SOLUTION
To create a resource that can be used by any generation or demographic to help victims of natural disasters find resources for questions and concerns involving federal, state, and government programs. The website aimed to give a better experience and to simplify the process of recovery from a natural disaster.
Due to the size of this project, the main components of the cooperative research, high fidelity design, and user testing will be focused on. The preliminary research was done with cooperation from the demographic of Coloradans from the ages 18-24.
COOPERATIVE DESIGN
Many of the participants of the cooperative study came up with different issues that they had experienced. The most common one (26.4%) was to have a centralized location for resources towards recovery of a natural disaster, but there were also trends in skiing or winter sport related issues (20%), such as lodging or price of gear to do these activities. The other group with more than one response was in reference to social issues such as mental health (13%) or loneliness (13%).
HIGH FIDELITY DESIGN
By bringing in photos, distinct colors and a strong brand identity, it brightened up the design and gave it more room to breathe. The sizing of the pages became the main area of concern before this point, but as the high-fidelity designs began to take shape, the formatting became smaller and more consistent throughout the pages.
USER TESTING
Upon the finalized design being created, along with the user interactions being implemented, there was a test of 4 users in the same demographics as the initial cooperative design form to get their experience on using the website.
The main results of that were positive feedback towards the logical layout of the navigation, and the clean simple interface that was felt as necessary towards a website of this nature.
One piece of feedback was the consideration that this design may not have been effective for users who have do not frequently use the internet. The sidebar navigation could be confusing for those cases. If there was more time and resources for this project, the next step would have been to take in more user testing from the older demographic to ensure that this was not the case.
RECOVERY
Branding, UX Research, UI Design, Prototyping
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Using a co-operative design method, a UX study was conducted to identify a potential problem that Coloradans between the age of 18-24 may have had. The results came in that they wanted an easier resource that compiled recovery information for victims of a natural disaster.
This was of interest to the demographic due to a recent natural disaster that had struck Boulder, Colorado called the Marshall Fire a couple months before this study was conducted.
SOLUTION
To create a resource that can be used by any generation or demographic to help victims of natural disasters find resources for questions and concerns involving federal, state, and government programs. The website aimed to give a better experience and to simplify the process of recovery from a natural disaster.
Due to the size of this project, the main components of the cooperative research, high fidelity design, and user testing will be focused on. The preliminary research was done with cooperation from the demographic of Coloradans from the ages 18-24.
COOPERATIVE DESIGN
Many of the participants of the cooperative study came up with different issues that they had experienced. The most common one (26.4%) was to have a centralized location for resources towards recovery of a natural disaster, but there were also trends in skiing or winter sport related issues (20%), such as lodging or price of gear to do these activities. The other group with more than one response was in reference to social issues such as mental health (13%) or loneliness (13%).
HIGH FIDELITY DESIGN
By bringing in photos, distinct colors and a strong brand identity, it brightened up the design and gave it more room to breathe. The sizing of the pages became the main area of concern before this point, but as the high-fidelity designs began to take shape, the formatting became smaller and more consistent throughout the pages.
USER TESTING
Upon the finalized design being created, along with the user interactions being implemented, there was a test of 4 users in the same demographics as the initial cooperative design form to get their experience on using the website.
The main results of that were positive feedback towards the logical layout of the navigation, and the clean simple interface that was felt as necessary towards a website of this nature.
One piece of feedback was the consideration that this design may not have been effective for users who have do not frequently use the internet. The sidebar navigation could be confusing for those cases. If there was more time and resources for this project, the next step would have been to take in more user testing from the older demographic to ensure that this was not the case.
Abby Cracraft