Activ

Becoming involved in movements you care about becomes easier with activ.

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Video Link; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYFjHf1CTddu6SPXF1Nzms32x1ZSxEfT/view?usp=sharing

Problem + Setting

2020 has seen the rise of social activism, especially on social media. Our app Activ hopes to maintain long-term engagement and support for various movements by compiling a list of activities and education material for people to effectively support the causes they care about.

Audience

We felt our audience could incorporate anyone with a desire to participate in social activism, but the majority of our audience would be individuals ages 16-25.

Solution and Features

Features: After signing up for our app, a user will have the ability to:

Get Motivated

  • Create goals and track personal progress whether thats money donated, hours spent volunteering, education articles read, petitions signed, etc. We found that users are more likely to stay motivated if they can track the progress they’ve made.

Get Educated

  • Access a database of up to date resources to help you get educated while also being able to save resources for later and also mark education experiences are completed.

Get Involved

  • Filter through a database of activities based on their cause, budget, location, time commitment and more.
  • Favorite and save activities for a later date.
  • Mark activities as “not interested” so that activities are tailored to your interests.
  • Sign petitions though the app with the click of a button
  • Reaching out to local, state and federal government members becomes easier with letter templates and call scripts.

Our goal with this app was to make getting involved in a movement as easy as possible!

Growing as a Designer and as a Team

Throughout this process we learned to collaborate as a team and combine our best ideas. We used the lessons we learned in workshops at Ideate 2020 and plenty of feedback from Office Hours to improve our design. Obstacles we ran into were shifting our mindset from coding (we're all programmers) to a designed-focus approach. For many of us this was our first design competition and also the first time using a tool like Figma.

Ultimately 3 strangers grew as designers and as a team to bring you Activ!

Google Slides Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O8oXD7z6wVbJCAfvdGyUdjtDK4nFzz5tNbZRdcTQf1A/edit?usp=sharing

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  • figma
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