Lend a Hand

Build community by helping neighbors

Overview


In our increasingly digital age, human interactions between community members are extremely rare. Because of the large blanket of anonymity that encompasses most neighborhoods, it is difficult to give help to and get help from your neighbors even though in a lot of circumstances it would be beneficial to leverage community members in order to get help with a problem. Our goal is to create a design that facilitates the process of giving and getting help within a community while fostering trust between its members.

Landing Page

Neighbors' Requests

Find and respond to requests for help around you.

Create Request

Create Requests

Use high level categories to help match your request with willing helpers.

Leaving Feedback

View Feedback

Rate and record interactions to ensure the best possible experience.

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Process


Initial Sketches

Initial Sketch

After interviewing a number of community members about their experiences getting and giving help we began fomulating possible designs through simple sketches.

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Paper Prototype

Paper Prototype

We then fomulated tasks to focus on and refined our strongest design into a more complete paper prototype.

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Digital Prototype

Digital Prototype

After doing heuristic evaluations of our prototype as well as iterating through three user tests, we developed our digital mockup.

Prototype


Create a Request

Leave Feedback

Team


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Ellen Wu

Ninja Designer

Computer Science & Engineering
ellenwu@uw.edu
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Michael Kim

Ninja Web Developer

Computer Science & Engineering
mkim123@uw.edu
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Elizabeth Schibig

Ninja Documenter

Computer Science & Engineering
lizs3434@uw.edu
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Isaac Schaaf

Ninja Project Manager

Computer Science & Engineering
ischaaf@uw.edu