Inspiration
As we live in first-generation immigrant families, we see the struggles of healthcare and the language barrier for people whose English is their second language. We wanted to create a website that would connect these people to translators to physicians.
What it does
Ideally, we would have liked to implement appointments, a messaging system, a finding translator system and notifications. As of now, we have registration, login, and finding/matching translators implemented.
How we built it
First, it was conceptualized in Figma. Then, we fully built the concept as a website, where the website was written in html/css/javascript/ejs. We used postgres for our user/translator databases, and we used bootstrap for easy styling.
Challenges we ran into
We tried to implement twilio messaging -> scheduled notifications but despite working on it for a large portion of the project, we were unable to implement it in the end. It seemed relatively straightforward, but we were unfamiliar with many of the technologies/background knowledge that was required to implement these features. We could not fully implement the whole project and all its features, but we got some key features working.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we were able to get some key functions working, and overall execute the main idea of our project.
What we learned
As js/html/css are none of our preferred languages, we spent a lot of time learning the ins and outs of web development. We found that it was much more complicated to implement things that are publicly shown in the web vs. our own applications, which makes sense because of privacy reasons.
What's next for Health Translator Website
With some guidance, we should be able to complete the website fully.
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