“Empire State Strays”
About this Project:
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that New York has a huge stray problem. No matter what borough you’re in, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ve seen a stray cat duck beneath a car and out of sight, or maybe a stray dog sitting outside of a building. Our app aims to fix this by providing people with a safe and easy way to report stray animals.
When we started creating the wireframe for our app, one of our biggest struggles was deciding on a look that worked well for the tone of our app and something simplistic for our users of all ages. We went back and forth with a color scheme that conveyed certain emotions to help our users feel pity and want to help save stray animals. This was a decision we made after having the colors be bright and happy (light pinks, blues, etc). Another big change we made to our app was the name. Originally it was named ‘Save the Strays’ and then we decided to change it to ‘Empire State Strays’ to give it a more professional feel.
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Nice work building the design around how your audience can use it to connect the community and work together to make NYC a better place to live in, for both humans and pets!
As a next step, I'd encourage you consider the use case of someone who lost their pet. How would they report their lost animal? How could that interact with your systems for reporting sightings of strays? How could you help these users find their pets? Overall, great work and I'd love to have something like this the next time I see a lost pet!
Overall great job! One thought on how to improve would be including users to upload photos of strays and details they could provide to help assist no-kill shelters with identification.
Feedback from the Community:
From a design point of view, I could definitely see a feature like that being added to our app. Ideally, it would allow users to report their own lost animals and attach an image. Additionally, any reported strays would have their images and information added to the 'Adopt' page of our app within a few days, where owners can filter by where the animal was found, the type or breed of the animal, and other specifics in order to identify if their lost pet was reported as a stray. From there, they could contact the shelter it was reported to and retrieve their animal.
Thank you for your question!
- Dalila, Empire State Strays
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