Evo
Helping special needs educators prepare their students for life outside the classroom
evo: let’s go!
evo is an app designed around the needs of William, a special needs educator.
Methods:
A/B testing, Storyboarding, Userflows, Interviews, Experience maps
My role in evo:
User experience researcher
UI designer
Interaction designer
Team Members:
Vanessa Jaber, Nat Schade
Tools:
Sketch, Principle, Illustrator
Project Overview
This project focused on building solutions based on the needs of a single user. Evo was designed for William, a special needs educator, and in many ways William’s needs also encompassed his classes’ needs.
Meet William
William is a special needs educator, who wants to take the children in his class on more excursions outside the school.
Opportunity Space:
After conducting research and narrowing down our opportunity spaces, we identified the key opportunity for William and his class: provide William with an easy way to get his students out in the real world more frequently. They need experience outside the classroom. He currently faces multiple obstacles when arranging field trips including:
paperwork
funding
parent approval
transportation
chaperones
social obstacles
We designed evo to reduce the workload associated with William’s field trips through creating accessible technology for him in the form of an app and student tracking.
Solution Space:
William faces many obstacles getting his students out in the real world to increase opportunities for socialization. We want to solve this problem through creating accessible technology in the form of a specialized graphic user interface made just for William.
evo addresses William’s opportunity space through:
Making it easy to visually search for accessible locations for school trips within the Savannah, GA area
Scheduling school field trips for him using Google Duplex
Keeping a timeline memoria of past field trips and reviewing how the trip went
Tracking students with GPS tags in case of emergency during the trip
Making it easy to sort, upload, and share photographs of the trip with parents to encourage parent participation
Charting William’s current and future day through experience Maps:
