An app prototype created using Adobe XD for a non-profit organization, Canopy NWA. This app prototype seeks to solve the needs of the clients through their four different user groups: the staff, the co-sponsors, the volunteers and the Canopy clients.
- Process -
CanopyNWA is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization started by Northwest Arkansas residents who are working to create a place of refuge for people fleeing persecution due to race, membership in a particular social group, political opinion, religion, or national origin. We first started with the research phase which involved speaking with the staff members and also the refugee families.
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To further understand the need of our target user groups, we created personas and surveys. From this process, we learned that people ARE willing to help - they are just uninformed on the opportunities available to them. We also learned that for the co-sponsor families, there is a prominent language barrier that makes communication a challenge between the families and a reliable translation service was desperately needed.
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The last step before creating the final prototype was to create a paper prototype. We drew out every possible scenario we could think of on paper to help guide the final production.
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Below is a final version of the prototype for CanopyNWA. It is an interactive prototype, and I invite you to click through it and experience the prototype for yourself.