Online platform for easy organization of a cooking event
Bring refugees and host communities closer with the aim of positively influencing development in the sense of interest-driven networking and cultural exchange.
Today, social structures are subject to major changes. Especially due to the increased immigration, Germany will face great challenges in the next decade.
In the European refugee crisis of 2015/2016, the number of newly arrived refugees increased sharply and their leisure activities were poor. At the same time, many locals wanted to participate and help them integrate into the community. But the main problem is how to organize and allocate these resources appropriately.
Our version is to connect people and make them grow together. The aim of the project is to create an organizational and networking structure for immigrations and locals in order to break down barriers, establish connections and enable enjoy a meetup.
timeframe
10.2015 – 01.2016
supervisor
Prof. Diana Simon
designer
Jie Ding, Johannes Hetzold, Kuan-Ju Bondes, Sandra Püschel
responsibilities
User Journey, User Flows, Information Architechture, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping
Networking and participating
We have sorted most of the platforms through which leisure activities can be offered according to the type of planning and participation. Creating better organizational and networking structures will increase users' desire to participate and make it easier for them to do so.
With the task of creating offers of information, we decided to design a website on which event offers can be posted, searched, supported and participated. In particular, the project is dedicated to the topic of cooking, because it is easy to overcome language barriers and to enter into cultural exchange.
The first quadrant - connected and participating - is the goal of our platform.
We shaped six different personas, then through user journeys and storyboards, imagined the mental actions at a cooking event.
The core functions of the website are “join“, “create“ and “support“. In addition, a rating system is integrated through the creation of accounts, which also provides event recommendations and background information.
No space? Here are our partners
It is possible for outsiders to support event offers via the support function, similar to crowd-funding.
Both communities and private individuals can provide rooms, equipment or food for cooking events without necessarily participating in them themselves. Contact can be made with appropriate organizations via the partner list. In this way, it should be possible to create events for large groups and to acquire the necessary resources for them.
Navigation via words and pictograms, mostly centered arrangement because of Arabic languages.
Growing together
From the point of view of user-centered design, this is also reflected in the naming of the platform. YUMIWI is the synonym for YOU+ME=WE.
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