Peer Politics

How can we get people between the ages of 18 and 25 more involved in politics and civic engagement?

Meet the Team!

Uchenna Uzuegbunam: Team Leader, Shareholder, User research and interviewer
Pat Mills-Sullivan: User testing, Wireframing, Visual and Logo Design

What I did!

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User Interviews
I helped conduct ethnographic interviews to understand possible users of our app. I served as both the interviewer and note taker. I wore a variety of hats in this projects since I did not want to impose limits on myself. For this project, Goal Directed Design was utilized to deliver the most viable product.
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Wireframing and Prototyping
After understanding the user goals and requirements, I constructed both physical and digital prototypes for potential users to test with. I made sure to be receptive to criticism and make adjustments as necessary. All of the digital prototyping was done in Adobe XD.
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Visual Design
When designing the look and feel of the app, I consulted with the requirements and user goals and worked with my team to help make the app look "fun" and "inviting" for the user demographic base, avoiding colors and design conventions that felt too "old fashioned".

Meet the Personas!

Persona graphics were created by Uchenna

Contextual Scenario

  1. After checking her news feed on the Peer Politics app, Brianna has discovered that a bill (HB6538), that could have improved the quality of life of her and her peers did not pass a vote in the State House. She’s pretty upset about it.
  2. Brianna checks the app to see if anyone else locally reacting to the news. There are a handful of fellow college students that are not pleased either.
  3. Using the app’s “Get Involved” function, she decides to see if there’s anything in her local area that can be done about the bill. She's willing to travel about 25 miles at most.
  4. By searching “hb6538” Brianna sees that there are no events nearby the city of Atlanta or any of its suburbs. In fact, the nearest event is in Valdosta.
  5. Brianna knows that some of her friends feel strongly about this bill, so she decides to create an event in Roswell, Georgia for a write-in workshop at a coffee shop that she is a regular at. She calls the shop beforehand and gets the go-ahead from the owner.
  6. Using the “create an event” feature, Brianna sets the event location at the coffee shop’s address for next weekend between the hours of 1-6 PM. The event description goes over the activities happening, who’s welcome to come, occupancy and general ground rules.
  7. Over the span of the next week, Brianna can check who is joining and answer any questions about the event.

Peer Politics: Visually Developed!

Words simply can't tell a full story. Check out the photos below, and click if you'd like to enlarge them.
Very Rough Wireframe Idea
It was a bit unconventional, but I came up with an initial idea in Adobe XD. We didn't think about the key path or the context scenarios, so everything was uncomfortable looking.
Paper Prototyping
After deciding on a key path scenario, making a paper prototype was the next logical step, allowing for rapid changes to be made without navigating digital software. Our key path scenario was built off a context scenario that is an intersection between what the primary and secondary persona would do.

The Finished Product

After consulting with Uchenna and Pat, this was the key path fully rendered in Adobe XD.