Dedicated App & Responsive Website UX Design

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Three Digits to Safety
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• Presented By Christine Morrison

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Project Overview

• This project began in January 2023 and was
  completed in February 2023. The goal of this
  project was to design a dedicated app and a
  responsive website for social good. The topic I
  chose to focus on was School Safety.
• Technology is driving many of the solutions
  already available to facilitate school safety and
  the use of AI (artificial intelligence) is
  beginning to emerge.
• The results from my competitive audit revealed
  that there appears to be a gap between school
  safety as a whole and emergency response. This
  gap is the individual safety of a child within a
  school.

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Device Driven

• I have taken some creative liberty to design
  products using a hypothetical situation involving
  a device not yet developed.

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Device Imagined

• Imagine a device that can be activated by
  children without the need for them to have a cell
  phone. As long as a child can remember three
  digits, they would be capable of activating this
  device to alert responders of an emergency
  situation.

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The Device

• Think about panic buttons, and voice activated
  devices. Chips that are small enough to contain
  large amounts of information. Computers small
  enough to create smart watches and Fitbits.
• This technology already exist.

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Into Action
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My Role

• From the start to the completion of this project

• Empathize
• Surveys
• Journey Maps
• Personas

• Define
• Analyze
• Synthesize
• Problem Statements

• Ideate
• HMW
• Crazy 8s
• Paper Wireframes

• Prototype
• Low-fidelity
• Mockups
• High-fidelity designs

• Test
• Research Plan
• Use Studies
• Prioritize

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Defining User Needs

• There are many users that can benefit from these
  products
• A child goes to school in fear of what other
  children may do to them.
• A teacher dreads not being able to account for
  all of their students.
• Parent or caretaker fears they wont see their
  child again as they see them drive off on the
  school bus.
• Emergency responder lives with the thought that
  they could have saved a child if they had better
  information sooner.

• Who?

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Persona 1
If the school districts won't supply each
teacher with a personal emergency alert button,
then supply one to your child.

• Goals
• We need to give our kids better response time
  when they are in trouble.

• Frustrations
• We protect seniors with alert devices, but we
  dont apply this to our kids.

Kristin
Age 25 Education College Grad Hometown Newton,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Family Married with
children Occupation Head of Marketing
Communications
We can do many things with our cell phones.
Communication is an important safety measure.
Cell phones can also cause distractions in the
classroom and are not always used to communicate
appropriately. We can install panic buttons in
the classroom for teachers, but what about our
kids outside of those classroom doors? What do
they have?
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Persona 2
...a quick background check was done before I
entered the building, based on facial
recognition. That was a WOW for me.

• Goals
• I want to know that kids and the staff can be
  accounted for in areas where a camera may not
  capture what is happening.

• Frustrations
• Cameras are often a go to method for knowing what
  happened after the fact, but I worry about
  prevention and real-time assistance.

Kimberly
I've been spending the last few months touring
various charter schools to check out the
curriculum, the location, and yes, the security
measures to be aware of who is in the school at
all times, and why. Seeing cameras throughout a
school is a good start, but cameras dont catch
everything.
Age 27 Education College Grad Hometown
Franktown, Colorado Family Married Occupation
Administrator
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Understanding User Needs
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Framing Ideas
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Testing and Analyzing
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Validating The Research
"This version is much moreeasily understood and
wasvery user friendly to followalong through
each step".
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Accessibility, Branding, and Continuity

• Dedicated App

• Responsive Website

I used (color blind safe) tools and Web
Accessibility guidelines for maintaining a good
contrast ratio. I have also provided for
multi-language use and a screen reader function
within the settings.
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Takeaways

• This has been my most challenging project as a
  student UX Designer. Conceptualizing a device to
  solve a serious problem facing our society today,
  school safety, is exciting.
• I received encouraging feedback from my usability
  studies that these designs are moving in the
  right direction. The project itself has provided
  me with a better understanding of the
  complexities involved in protecting individuals
  within our schools. Lastly, I have taken the
  knowledge and experience gained from my previous
  courses in this program to bring designs from the
  defined user problems to tested solutions.

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Next Steps

• At this point, I have only designed for a portion
  of the overall IA that I considered necessary to
  have the device, app, and responsive website
  fully functioning as a complete solution.

• The remaining screens and pages for the remainder
  of the IA will have to wait until the opportunity
  to design the device as a real solution instead
  of just a hypothetical situation occurs.

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Lets Connect

• If you would like to discuss this project with
  me, or would consider me working on a project
  for you, I can be reached at working4uremotely_at_gma
  il.com.