Digital Civics @ Purdue
Team: (6) Claire Johnson, Daniel Chin, Enya Song, Jordan Johnson, Sarah Palagy
Role in team: Concept, Research, visual Identity
Duration: 1/2 Semester
Tools: Figma, miro, HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Research Techniques: Co-Design Workshop, interviews
Opportunity Space
The project goal was to create a responsive web experience that creates, extends, or enables grassroots efforts within the local community. Our final design took on a digital civis approach where we addressed frustrations within Purdue’s on-campus parking situation, specifically with parking transparency. We wanted to create a space that facilitates community awareness of issues while parking at Purdue and empowers students to protect each other from predatory parking practices.
Research
Co-Design Workshop
Our co-design centered around 6 college students, 3 with campus parking passes and 3 without. We wanted to understand how parking influenced their interactions with campus, encourage conversations surrounding parking frustrations, and identify commonalities.
This co-design allowed us to identify and structure our solution to address these three issues: availability of parking, affordability, and unclear parking instructions.
“If I couldn’t find a spot, I would have driven all the way to CoRec and walked, been late, or not gone”
“The parking map told me I could park in the McCutcheon garage but apparently I couldn’t park on the bottom floor because I got a ticket and it was like $35”
“The only parking available was street parking by 1st street which is always full and I can’t parallel park.”
Final Design
We wanted this site to be made by students, for students, which lead to the visual design having a bit of a grassroots meme feel of bright colors and very rough early 2000’s image elements.
After pivoting our scope from informing students to creating a space for students to protect each other, we narrowed our design to three main features:
Report
Allows users to Inform others of parking tickets and towing being given on campus. By clicking the report button on the top corner, the gray section opens up to collect report information.
Map
Allow users to see places to avoid parking on an interactive map based on tickets reported from the previous week. After sufficient data collection, this platform will be able to predict the schedule of the “ticketers” to allow for students to dodge getting charged.
Posts
Allow users to read advice or information posted by other students and react to post.
Website Walkthrough (Video)
Last Project
Museum Exhibit Project
Next Project
Purdue Online Writing Lab
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