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Let’s connect!
Connecting care where it’s needed most
Bloom Designathon
Researcher, UI Designer
Figma
CONTEXT
ROLE
TOOLS USED
MateWay
Problem
Research
Solution
Key Takeaway
Process
How might we design solutions that help people connect, care, and thrive empowering both the individual and the community
Ideating solutions where an individual can give, and a community can receive, rather than a one way interaction
Our original solutions involved services an app can provide for someone, but after reconsidering the prompt, we wanted to find a way to get the whole community involved in some type of way → we came up with our app & public kiosk where an individual can donate what they have an excess, and someone or a community in need can receive → allowing everyone to connect care and thrive
Provide help where it’s needed, easy and fast
Between 30,000 and 35,000 people are homeless on any given night
The annual cost of homelessness is over $10 billion
In 2024. 25.5% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household, that amounts to approximately 10 million people - Canada’s emergency shelters had a total of 22,379 beds across 587 permanent shelters
While working on this project, I’ve realized that it highlights the power of human-centered design in creating accessible systems that connect individuals and strengthen community care.
