Google Designathon
EasyReach - An Application For People In Need
Problem Statement: Design a mobile application that acts as a comprehensive, accessible, and user-friendly portal connecting unhoused individuals with essential social services.
Time Limit: 6 Hours ( Mobile Application, AI usage, UX)
Presentation Time: 5 minutes
Team: 4 MS HCI Students
Requested App Priorities:
Your app must prioritize accessibility, clarity, and trust for users who may have limited battery life, inconsistent internet access, and/or significant stress.
Artificial Intelligence usage
leveraging AI during the research and design process of building a mobile application. See where AI accelerates the UX process, and where limitations remain.
This category details the step-by-step approach taken during the project, including research, planning, design, development, testing, and optimization phases.
Research & Planning
Conducted research using LLMs and the Internet. Reading articles, Research Studies, and Reddit threads paved the way for design questions.
Creating Information architecture, User Flows, and Personas to understand the flow and data in the application
Design & Prototyping
Create Intutive, Quick UI Interface of the solutions proposed. Created High Fidelity UI on Figma.
Implementation
Implemented Important Solutions briefed in the problem statement like accessing basic social services through an application for everyday use, required for unhoused individuals specifically in the United States.
The resulting AI-powered scheduling app offers a seamless user experience, allowing individuals and businesses to effortlessly manage their schedules. The application was built on the assumption that unhoused individuals can use applications and have devices. Key features include:
Medical Assistance
Finds nearby urgent-care clinics based on your locality, insaurance and accessibility (e.g., user is based in bay area looking for a clinic)
Digital vault
secure virtual storage unit for essential documents like cards, tickets, insaurance cards, shelter bookings, prescriptions etc. A one-stop unit for all essential documents.
AI Document translator
Summarises documents and translates from technical details to simple text for users to understand easily.
Chatbot
An AI + human powered help system which helps individual in any way required. like booking shelters, finding clinics, finding soup kitchens etc.
Digital Vault and Map Assistance
How we leveraged AI: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini
AI provided insights from data on web, to make our case stronger.
We Used AI to make sense of our Ideas while brainstorming to consolidate our thoughts in a chart.
We used AI to understand the chatbot structures and how it functions in the various applications to incorporate the needs of your users.
We gathered data using perplexity to find the population of unhoused individuals in The USA.
Working quickly in tight deadlines while brainstorming and whiteboarding relevant ideas and solutions.
Understanding the problem statement and delivering a possible solution in a short time.
Presenting the Idea in 5 mins, by making a crisp and concise pitch.
Working in a team to meet the deadline.
Leadership, by quickly making decisions on certain problem areas and discussions.
Understanding the Problem statement and delivering according to requirement.