
“Plastic Reducer App”

About this Project:
The project is an app that helps connect people to opportunities to clean their communities and make connections.
In this app, people can search and participate in clean-up event, which could include beach and park clean-ups. Users can add friends and interact with each other regarding upcoming opportunities, including organizing their own clean-up events.
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The slides include a brief description and close up of the app features. A link to view the prototype on Figma.com is included in the slides, as well as a brief description of the design journey.
The app link takes to Figma.com, where viewers can interact with the prototype to explore its purpose and features.
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Feedback from the Judges:
Taking a look at the wireframes, your presentation was very good. I was able to quickly gain the context needed to understand the user interfaces (UI) I could see in Figma. These UIs were clean and very user-friendly. Well thought out. I loved that you even followed Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) principles like Fitts Law (basically where you put the navigation on the bottom of the UI, closest to a user's thumb)!
Another feature I liked was the ability for a user to create their own clean-up event. You all fleshed that user flow out really well too. Very easy to accomplish that goal. I wonder if integrating with social apps like Twitter, Instagram, etc would be a nice add-on? To help socialize an event to open up a custom event to other users outside of the creator's friends list?
To sum up, your idea solves a big problem very nicely. Nailed it actually, in my humble opinion as a designer and frontend developer who's created dozens of apps like this using design thinking. I could easily see myself getting excited to find a local clean-up and make a difference for my community and the environment. Kudos!
I think it’s a great idea to start with people who are already passionate about the environment. I do wonder if there is space for an educational aspect to the app to attract those who may not be passionate. I think it might be interesting to see if you could expand your user base to people who are “interested” but not “passionate” to make even more of an environmental impact.
Over all, I think that these students have thought about their target audience and built something that solves a user problem that would have social impact. I definitely don’t think they should stop here, though, since I think that even people beyond the super passionate could find value in it if they knew how to get involved.
Feedback from the Community:
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