Desktop Mockup of Adelina Application

Adelina

Adelina is an application which is meant to connect the elderly with volunteering oppurtunities.

Overview

  • One way of contributing to Active Aging is to put the elderly in the active position of helpers and help them stay socially connected
  • Via this platform, NGOs in need of help can seek out the help of our unexpected volunteers - the elderly.
  • Meanwhile they have the oppurtunity to lend their hands to those in need if they so wish.

    • Role: UX Research, Concept, UI Design, Interaction, Branding - split equally over 2 Team members
    Tools: Adobe XD, Miro, Premiere Pro, After Effects

    Problem Statement

    What to do once you're old?

    Active aging is becoming more and more relevant with our populations becoming older. The elderly are often confronted with issues of loneliness, lack of purpose and a feeling of being left behind in our world. As not only the body ages and ceases to perform the way it used to, another big problem is the elderly and their struggle with modern technology.

    Research

    What do the elderly need?

    In order to develop a product that actually speaks to the wants and habits of elderly people, we wanted to gain real insight into their lives. In order to do that we conducted a focus group interview, discussing their overall use of technology, what they do in their free time and their attitudes towards helping and being helped.

    adelina persona

    Insight

    Identifying pains

    • the elderly struggle not exclusively physically but socially as well
    • some are bored rather than helpless

    Desires

    • they seek and value community
    • they dont want to be treated like incompetent beings
    • they wish to fulfill a purpose or be helpful rather than only requiring help

    Use of technology

    • they use phones in a limited way, mainly for communicating
    • if they do only selected applications are used
    • they often require the help of someone younger to explain modern apps to them

    Conclusions

    • instead of making elderly help seekes, we put them into a position of helping

    How to make our product accessible to the elderly?

    • ultimately any app would be a hurdle for the elderly so we opted to offer them the way of communicating through familiar channels like whatsapp or SMS
    • this would be the best usability for the elderly so we focused on the interfaces for the organiser side

    Ideation and Prototyping

    To develop the requirements of our product we wrote user stories and did extensive sketching and paper prototyping.

    adelina paper ideation process

    Highfidelity Screens

    After sketching out the prototypes and figuring out the screens we designed the highfidelity Mockups

    adelina screens adelina screens

    Check out the video demonstration here!

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