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CC38- Recommend feature & design changes to our prototype to help with forest fires
Project start and end dates:
2022-03-10 to 2022-04-22
We would like you to explore and document any recommendations and functionality/design modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype, focused on floods, to help during a different type of disaster: Forest fires. We will provide screenshots and demos of our current flood prototype to help you understand and research any needed modifications. You should take into account the different needs of individuals or communities affected by forest fires, but while trying not to require us to change the existing prototype user interface, user experience, and customer journey too much. Create wireframes or mock-ups to represent the user interface changes that you think are needed to handle a forest fire disaster.
The SAIT Applied UX Design / Product Management students applied creative thinking and design thinking methodology in exploring the functionality modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype focused on floods, to help during a wildfire disaster. They continuously suggested new ideas to the project which produced results of exceptional quality.
In their research perspective the students explored:
- Design thinking methodology
- Information gathering, current workflows, proposed use cases, and identified friction points from prospective end users of the new design
- Software design recommendations in the form of wireframes
- Submitted high fidelity design work in the form of a prototype that looks and feels like a real application
The students were always pleasant, professional, and keen to understand our project goals and showed excellent ability to be persistent in achieving them. Demonstrated a willing and conscientious effort in the project.
Overall, their contribution was of value to our future prototype design work.
Thank
You!
We would like to thank Michelle Bowers, Curtis Fairhurst, Erin Kronstedt, Tyler Skrabek, and teaching staff Loui Garcia, Jenny Tang and Renee Matsalla of SAIT Applied UX Design / Product Management course. *
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As part of this effort, a great deal of market and technical research was conducted over the last few years. Over 140 students have been involved so far, in dozens of academic institutions in Canada and internationally.
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