Real Talk
Creators: Wensley, Adam, Nizar, Jaden & Luceline
School: High School Students from Academy for Conservation & Environment
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Project Themes: Community Connection
About this Project
Have you ever had a terrible school lunch meal or had to use a gross school bathroom? Real Talk the high school solution to this common problem! This app allows students to report issues at school and recieve live updates and feedback on issues such as school cleanliness, events, lunch options, hallway monitoring, locker issues, and more!
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Professional Feedback
The problem statement is clear and the app/solution effectively address the problem/issue. The app's design is thoughtful and the functionalities existing in the app shows promise and great consideration of user experience. Understanding of user base is done methodologically through user interviews and careful observation. Amazing high fidelity prototype that has clean user interface and end-to-end feature completeness. Great project and the team did an amazing job!
It's great that you talked to other students to collect feedback on problems they face. Bullying can be a serious problem, and it's great if you can empower students to do something about it, safely.
From the presentation, I wasn't able to get a very clear sense of what the user interface of the app would be. I think it's important that the users have as little friction as possible when reporting problems, or they won't bother to do it. And for something like reporting any ongoing fight or vandalism, you may need to send the report very quickly to the administrator. Have you thought about how to make this as easy as possible? One idea would be to allow the app to automatically capture and send the location data from the phone, so you don't have to say where it's happening.
I wasn't really clear on your idea behind the "virtual room" that it mentions in the slides, where students would be on camera and sharing screens. That seems to be quite a different goal than anonymous reporting of problems. Maybe you have an idea for a second app there.
From the presentation, I wasn't able to get a very clear sense of what the user interface of the app would be. I think it's important that the users have as little friction as possible when reporting problems, or they won't bother to do it. And for something like reporting any ongoing fight or vandalism, you may need to send the report very quickly to the administrator. Have you thought about how to make this as easy as possible? One idea would be to allow the app to automatically capture and send the location data from the phone, so you don't have to say where it's happening.
I wasn't really clear on your idea behind the "virtual room" that it mentions in the slides, where students would be on camera and sharing screens. That seems to be quite a different goal than anonymous reporting of problems. Maybe you have an idea for a second app there.
