Walkable

Landing - Pathfinding
Choose a safe walking path.
Report and know about safety concens in the area.
Walk with your friends!

Inspiration

We felt inspired by the significant number of walkers in our community. Since all of us are students, we have all felt unsafe walking in our neighborhoods at least once in our lives.

What it does

We want to build an app that allows people to report incidents in real-time. These reports will then be shared across all Walkable users. Once a user types in a destination they would like to be routed to, Walkable will show different possible paths to the same destination but will rate how safe it is based on feedback from the community. We also included location sharing with your friends/family to ensure that your loved ones are safe.

How we built it

We used Figma to prototype our app UI and we plan to use Google Maps API to implement Map routing.

For a preliminary mockup, we used OpenLayers in a React web app.

Challenges we ran into

A primary challenge was trying to find a Map API that was affordable and fit the needs for this project.

We also thought about the possibility of having few users. To combat this solution, we wanted to increase our social media presence by advertising on Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, and more. We also want to advertise this app to current students of UW since students is a target audience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Although we were unable to fully implement an app, we are proud of our initial prototype and the help this app could give to someone to feel safe to walk in their community. We made detailed screens for our app prototype in Figma and developed a thorough design plan.

What we learned

We learned the importance of ideating a plan before starting any prototyping and implementation. Knowing the details of each feature we would like to implement helped us efficiently create the prototype.

What's next for Walkable

We plan to start building the prototype that we designed. We hope to add more features in the future such as pulling data from city officials and emergency response to have a larger pool of data and ensure everyone is aware of events happening in their community.