Peak

Inspiration

Our group came up with the project Peak when one of the group members interested to keep up with healthy diets during the pandemic. However, she realized it was hard to keep motivated to catch up on the diet schedule when doing alone. She wants to find a community to support her.

What it does

Our Peak website consisted of three main features. The first feature helps users to find the community they are interested in. Such community includes:

Vegan
Plant lovers
Vegetarian
Practice recycling
Reduce emissions
Waste reduction
Reduce water pollution
Water treatment

After joining a community, users could browse preset goals they wanted to finish. Users could also engage with community members through sharing their own progress and commenting and checking on each others' goal-achieving progress.

How we built it

We started by doing online research which all of our members contribute. We first build the lo-fi prototype and hi-fi prototype in the design phase. After finishing the prototype, we have front-end and back-end developed at the same time.

Challenges we ran into

We have three designers and one developer in our group which made the developer more work on the back-end. Luckily, all the designers have some knowledge in the front-end so that eases up the work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are able to collaborate across different time zones since one of the members is in Taiwan and the other three are in the US. Some went to rest while others went to work due to time differences.

What we learned

Sprint design and fast pace coding as two of the designers are not super familiar with front-end.

What's next for Peak

Hopefully, we could really publish this site and help people achieve their goals. We are also hoping the accessibility of this site could reach the people who have limited access to health and sustainable resources as our site could also serve as providing tips to be more sustainable and healthy. People out there alone trying to accomplish the goals could find a community to support them.