Second Season: A website made for our 65+ seniors.

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  Second Season, a website for our seniors

Inspiration

After getting prompts, we were thinking about what we could do. The idea to so something for our seniors struck when one of the team members mentioned that how a friend of hers is helping out seniors with their daily chores, medications, grocery shopping, etc., and she in need of volunteers. This is a challenge in America where 3 in 10 American seniors live alone that's around 43% of seniors regularly experience loneliness which affects there mental and health being. We all are going to be part of this society in the near future. Well, its time for everybody to give back to our community by supporting our seniors in some respect. With some research, we found that social media and connecting to people through these platforms has engaged seniors the most, but they have hard time navigating through complex websites. "A Study from the the New York times also reveled that Facebook was the most preferred social media site for users aged 65 and over because the could use Facebook to bond with old friends and develop relationships with like-minded people.

What it does

We broadly categorized the ideas generated in 4 major categories to solve on our website: -Social Life and events -Self value and purpose -Technology -Emotional confidence and self esteem Based on these ideas we designed "Second Season" to enable seniors and elders to use a website platform that can enable them to interact with other in their age group in a simple and meaningful way.

-They could organize and attend virtual and in-person events. -Learn new skills through live classes -Brush up an old forgotten hobby -Chat and make new friends -See what events happening in their neighborhood -Offer expertise as classes -and much more.

How we built it

We built the product following the UX process. -Research and empathize with our users. -Analyzed our research and generated personas. -Referring to personas and research brain stormed ideas to come to solutions. -Prioritized some design solutions that needed to be solved. -Sketched first to understand our designs, iterated on them. -Created a low-fi wireframes in Figma -Tested among ourselves to experience the flow, and iterated based on the feedback -Created a hi-fi prototype by adding color palette and appropriate images

Challenges we ran into

-Time constraint to get our product tested with our target users -Keeping the layout simple and clean; avoiding cognitive overload as most sides have too much of it. -How content needs to be place for to be read easily. -Cater to wide range of elderly, from disability to illness to technology

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Really proud that a product could be delivered in 48 hours which could be built later for the betterment of the

What we learned

A website built for seniors is completely has a different experience. You need to cater their needs, their psychology, and their disabilities and different technology levels. The color palette, typography, font size, images, content simple and easy to understand; a whole new experience.

What's next for Second Season: A website made for our 65+ seniors.

-Main task is to test with our users and improvise on the solutions designed. -Really hope we could deliver this product for the betterment of this society!

Built With

• figma