Ecovest

Inspiration

We were inspired by the sense of hopelessness individual contribution to global sustainability efforts truly are. This alongside the biref inspired us to create Ecovest

What it does

Ecovest informs users and provides transperency of sustainability practices on the companies they invest it. It is common for people to not really know what they are funding, and being ignorant gives these corporations power to continue there practices. In 2004, BP coined the term 'carbon footprint' blaming the individual for sustainability and environmental impact instead of the corporations which do the most damage

How we built it

We built our product in Figma using from design tokens (colours, buttons, typography) to make it faster for us to convert our sketches into hi-fidelity wireframes. As we did not have a pro or edu team, we had to design on the design system file itself. This also limited our capabilities with advanced prototyping, being unable to use variables and variants together.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a few challenges on how we wanted to approach the issue, which is quite hard to overcome when people are sleep deprived, exhausted and we have a strict deadline. We gave eachother a lot of freedom to work and see how their vision manifested to make it easier for us to make these decision. Trust and freedom were key in our success. We also did not have as much time as others. All of our team members had commitments either last the night before the designathon, on saturday and on sunday! So we tried our best to get it all done to the best of our ability

What we learned

sustainability investment (none of us had a investment / business background and this was a big hurdle at the start!)
double diamond structure for project development
working under extreme pressure
overcoming differences fast / rapid conflict resolution

What's next for Ecovest

If this product was real, the business side would be a priority with the potential to become a real, profitable business. Companies such as CMC pay companies like Morning star for their in-depth stock reports, but these reports do not talk about sustainability and where your money is going / funding. As the sustainability practices continue to grow this will only become more important in the investment world.

Links there are four links link - if this prototype link does not work (it might as it is not a pro version) use the figma link below and prototype from flow point 'starting point/onboarding' link - figma link - figjam (planning) link - presentation (notes in the slides aswell) link - google doc planning