
“Smile Help Anti-Bullying Support App”

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Smile Help: Anti-bullying Community Support App
I’ve designed a bullying app to help build self-esteem victims of bullying, including how to write and use personal affirmations. It provides online in app access to guidance counselors, social workers and school principals to help the victims of bullying.
The app provides information on how to be an upstander. This is when we enable bystanders to stand up against bullies. When these bullies are outnumbered by the vast majority of students who ordinarily would be standing on the sidelines watching, they will realize that they are outnumbered, that the entire Community has much greater power than them and they will have to stand down and stop bullying.
The App also provides information and provide access for people to sign up to be upstanders to combat bullying in the school.
There are also buttons to alert school personnel about incidents of bullying in progress and to enable a loud noise alert to repel bullies from the scene of any such incident.
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I think that Katherry has included all of the necessary basic features to have will both the bullied and with onlookers. I think that if she’s building on the features she already has, you could potentially add some capabilities that would make bullies find justice. For example, when you click on Alert, perhaps there could be a camera icon that you could click on to take photos for the record. These photos could automatically be sent to whatever authorities are programmed into the app? You could also put in additional details about where it happened, what time, etc. This app is already great at focusing on the safety of the bullied, but features to help hold bullies accountable could also be in a future iteration of this app.
I’m very heartened by this idea since it aims to protect people who often go unprotected, suffering emotional scars because others never spoke up. And now they have a tool that could help to stop it in its tracks. Well done!
The design of the screens is extremely simple. I think this is a key requirement. In an emergency situation you don't have time to think, read text or discover features. Just like you decided to do it, in that case you need big buttons and hardly any text. So this is a very good design.
You have included most of the features for a first version of the app, so the scope of your project is well thought out.
Overall this is very good work. You have applied good design principles to a complex problem.
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