Porchsit: A Community Affair
Co-Researcher & Co-Designer, with Kausalya Ganesh, Dhruvi Patel • August 2019 - December 2019
Key Skills: User Interviews • Co-Design • Lo-Fi & High-Fi Prototyping • Figma
How might we:
- support older adults in accomplishing care tasks
- help older adults connect with their existing networks
Key Features
Task Listing
Contact-based Task Claiming
Direct Messaging
Ideation & Co-Design
- 1:1 interview with our participant
- Brainstorming and iterating on design solutions
- Taking lo-fi prototypes to a co-design session with our participant
- Working with our participant to get their design ideas
The lo-fi prototype shared in the co-design session.
Creating an account on the PorchSit app.
Prototyping
- Creating style guide and color scheme
- Combining the feedback from co-design session into one product
- Designing the high-fidelity prototype in sketch
Feedback
- Sharing our prototype with our participant
- Doing a think-aloud walk through of the prototype
- Gaining feedback with a post-interview
“Oh dear it’s wonderful!! These are good!! Personal, reflects me, lighthearted and a gentle request.”
Adding a task in the PorchSit App.