Design for Diversity.

My Roles: Prototype Design & Research

While taking a Human-Computer Interaction class, I was tasked to develop a product that was designed specifically for an area of diversity. Along with my four other group members, we decided to develop an application for those who are hard of hearing. Within that, we also took into consideration the elderly population. Our app, V-Text, would be a video chat service that offers live captioning as well as saved post-call transcripts. It could also be paired and used with other video chat services such as Facetime or Skype. Our entire project was broken down into four different process steps. We started out by researching our problem, seeing what solutions already exist, and reaching out to those who are hard of hearing. Then we brainstormed different design ideas, putting in place what we had gathered from research and target users. We selected the best design idea to then implement into the prototype shown above through Adobe XD and used it to gather more feedback from users that could then be used for future developments.

From identifying stakeholders, to learning all the ways to better the accessibility of a product, to learning about User-Centered design, this class has helped me grow as a designer and tremendously furthered my problem solving skills.