Goodie Nation UX Bootcamp
ROLES: UX DesignER + ResearchER
Duration: 3 weeks
I was invited to work on an exciting project with Goodie Nation during their three week bootcamp in the UX track at Morehouse College. I worked alongside a team of students learning on different tracks of web development, project management and UX design principles as we created ideas and designs for a product called Gapstop with founder Tanika Spates. Our goal was to find a way to help Atlanta communities to gain control over their health data and combat health disparities with accessible, comprehensive health data and connections to health resources. Our teams were tasked with finding a way to implement a technological solution to help her.
SURVEYS
I worked with four others designing a survey and sending it to students of Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University, as well as peers within the Metro Atlanta area to see how they currently accessed health data and what they would need to improve their existing data. Questions asked included:
Do you know about the health statistics for people in your area?(this includes death due to violent crime)(y/n)
If no, do you think you should know more? (edited)
Do you know where to get help or how to help others combat this issue?
We also included questions on how easy it was to understand health data they found, whether they wanted to do something about health issues that affected people like them and if they knew how to do so. Ultimately we found that:
Users did not know much about the health data in their area or how to act on it.
They wanted to know more about their health data and how location impacted health disparities.
The majority of respondents found health data hard to access and understand, and wanted ways to understand it better.
From there we created a list of requirements based on user feedback and determined that the best solution would be to create a site with an interactive health map for people to see the health data associated with their locations. I researched with the UX team to find APIs of Georgia health databases for the development team to work with and we brainstormed designs that would show how health data could be condensed in a way that was easily understandable. We also came up with a list of information needed if users wanted to sign up and share their experiences or get connected with activists and organizations fighting health disparities.
Prototype
Finally, I laid out a mid-fi prototype of the most important pages as determined by the data we gathered. The design was created with a placeholder for an interactive health map with information split up by region, the sign in page with user data and saved articles/data, as well as pages defining Gapstop. There are also sections that link to pages allowing users to contribute by talking, contributing data or contacting resources. Unfortunately funding was cut from the program so I was unable to work any further with the team after this but by the final week I created draft pages in Figma and delivered the concept to the founder.
