Nov 17
App Prototype: Muskra
Nov 17
Wasteless prototype
My app idea is the same idea I had for a previous assignment. Wasteless is an app that helps the poverty stricken. This app will include a home page, a page for finding restaurants that offer discounted food prices for food that hasn’t been sold by the end of the day. There is also a page to find community fridges near you.
Nov 17
Designing with Technology Part 3
The app that I have chosen to prototype is the app that I presented for my midterm project called This is Me. To reiterate the idea of that app, This is Me is designed to aid people of all ages with body positivity and self-love despite what the media perceives as beautiful, who the media depicts as beautiful, and who they depict as the opposite. The app will teach people to appreciate who they are and what they look like, as well as how to ignore who or what tells them they need to change themselves. To stay true to themselves, rather than trying to constantly fit what is deemed as idealistic and the norm. With this app people will be able to post, and share themselves and their stories in reaching self-love and happiness internally and externally. This app will limit and eventually eliminate self-doubt and self-hate overall, decreasing the numbers of suicides, anorexia, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia among people of all ages, races, genders, religions, upbringings, and social backgrounds.
Nov 17
App prototype
My app idea is similar to my Midterm project idea, UpCycle, which is an app that solves unethical fabric sourcing in the fast fashion industry to help promote sustainability. UpCycle will bridge the gap between the company that wants to change and the consumer who doesn’t know where to start. The prototype concept that I created genuinely focused on functionality more than the aesthetic drive. With that being said, I wanted to show how people can go into the app, find a drop-off location and earn valuable points that turn into cash incentives. After app users donate their clothing and receive their rewards, UpCycle will help them figure out how to build their new closet moving forward. The app will provide users with tips on where to shop, what pieces to buy, and how to remain fashion-forward while remaining environmentally conscious.
Nov 17
Designing with Technology Part 2
Maps are severely important as they are used and relied on everyday and everywhere. Maps
are used to get to destinations and to also locate destinations. Whether we are using Google
Maps, a Zoo Map, or a Museum Map, they are all helpful, nonetheless. Maps allow us to guide,
navigate, and become familiar with places. From home addresses, stores, restaurants, parks,
beaches and much more. Without them we are in a way, blind to the world around us, more
susceptible to getting lost and going the wrong direction, and more susceptible to many other
unwanted interferences. However, not everything about maps is beneficial. As individuals and
as a society, we have grown undoubtedly reliant on apps. This reliance has permitted a sort of
divide between the digital and media world and the real world. Gregory Scruggs, author of
Reliance on Google Maps Street View Could Create an Urban Digital Divide says, “In post after
post on YouTube, local blogs, and community media document the precarious nature of life in
wooden shanties alongside toxic creek, which is prone to flooding and where noxious gases can
cause vomiting. But you wouldn’t know any of that if you took a Google Maps Street View tour of
Avellaneda.” Maps only show the surface. Maps lack to tell the full story and specifics of
locations and establishments. New School professor Margarita Gutman says, “You will never
know what is really happening in the bad parts of the city.” Maps in a way, shield you from the
negatives of a location. They show what you want to see, but not what you need to see. You
could be going to the most unsafe place in the world, and you wouldn’t know just by looking at a
map. You are on your own. “For years, Arroyo Sarandí, a stream that snakes through the
working class suburb of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires, has fallen victim to industrial use. Pollution
and trash have caused serious flooding and health issues for the people living in villas misérias,
or slums, along the river banks”, says the article SGPIA Research Finds ‘Digital Divide’ in
Google Street View of Environmental Issues, Slums. Maps only show so much; and that is not
enough. Sure, if you just want to get somewhere Google Maps is essential and efficient, but if
you want data, information, and specifics, Google Maps misses the mark.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1MN9D_YQJxZMiTjuY1ecNJMtz7U7xGEs9&usp=sharing
The map I have constructed is based on data online which states which Bronx neighborhoods
are the most unsafe. Whether they are unsafe because of drug violence, gang violence,
domestic violence, or are known for prostitution, drug sales, or murders, and rapes. All eleven of
the neighborhoods are often deemed unsafe and recommended to stay far away from.
Ironically, most of these neighborhoods are normally very busy and popular. For example Hunts
Point, Crotona, Pelham Parkway, and Soundview. With shopping malls, parks, and many
transportation options, these places are extremely well known. With that being said, it is
essential that people living and traveling to and from these specific places in the Bronx are well
aware of the negatives and demographics of these said neighborhoods. This map gives
essential insight to Bronx natives and visitors. A key aid to maintain their safety, awareness, and
consciousness.
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