Hotline: Choose the Right Alternative

Inspiration

Black people have been 28% of those killed by police since 2013 despite being only 13% of the population. It’s not about crime, nor about geography. It’s about race. The people who respond to crises in our community should be the people who are best-equipped to deal with those crises. Rather than strangers armed with guns, we want to create space for local and personalized community support.

What it does

Hotline helps those who lack awareness and don’t have the time to research community-based responses to every single incident to choose the right alternative to calling the police. We are taking power away from the police and into those who truly care for the community. We combine the technology of personalized sign up forms, GPS tracking services, AI chat bot, and a comprehensive database to allow users to find the right solutions.

How we built it

We built it on Figma. We split our team into UX and UI designers. After conducting our UX research by consulting 7 unique BLM organizations and research papers, we started our low fidelity prototypes. We then tested the prototypes by conducting four user interviews, and then finished our high fidelity version.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge creating a product for a problem that does not currently have many solutions in the extremely limited amount of time we have. We also wanted to create a meaningful experience while keeping the issue of the privacy over user data in mind.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

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What we learned

We educated ourselves more deeply about the community-based alternatives to calling the police and how to go through the design process in under 12 hours!!

What's next for Hotline: Choose the Right Alternative

We would love to continue exploring this as a solution, maybe even as a built-in app for iPhones.