The COVID Journal

App Design (UI/UX) using Figma

Inspiration

Contact-tracing across the United States is highly disorganized, largely ineffective, and often laborious. As a result, tracking who you have been in contact with and alerting those with whom you have been in contact is rarely done effectively, and the practice is even less often maintained. With our app, we hope to make contact-tracing easier, more efficient, and more reliable. Using social media to track contact with others and SMS messaging to send alerts to contacts if there is a risk of exposure to COVID-19, the app aims to mitigate potential spread by making contact-tracing resources more accessible, available, and reliable.

What it does

The goal of the app is to provide an easy, convenient, and effective way for people to contact-trace using social media. There is also a feature to log any symptoms you might be experiencing on a given day, and if you experience symptoms of or test positive for COVID-19, the app will send a text message to all of your contacts who might have been exposed to you within a two-week period.

With the app linked to your contacts and your social media, selecting those with whom you had contact is easy and accurate. It is also a fast and reliable way to inform those with which you had contact of potential exposure to COVID-19.