Design for Safety & Mobility
UI/UX for wearable device for Women's safety
About the project
The project involved exploring the meaning of Assistive devices or solutions. Assistive devices are external devices that are designed, made, or adapted to assist a person to perform a particular task. Many people with disabilities depend on assistive devices to enable them to carry out daily activities and participate actively and productively in community life.
WHAT I UNDERSTOOD FROM THE BRIEF
It's not always physical or mental disabilities that stop a person from achieving a task. What if the disability is situational?
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Crimes against women are at an all-time highest in India. Being a woman myself I often come across situations or locations where I feel unsafe and find it difficult to navigate out or inform a dear one or ask someone for help or assistance.
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Design process
Research
Ideation
Brief reconstruction
Wireframing
-User interviews
-Market study
-Flaws in existing solutions
-Product Reviews
-Journey pain points
-Mapping of emerging themes
-Sketching
-How might we
-Storytelling
Framing the design brief again according to findings.
-Wireframing and building a mockup of the solution.
From the interviews
PAINPOINTS FROM THE USER JOURNEY
Before starting a trip alone, the user feels anxious about the travel and at times not too confident to drive themselves.
During the journey, the user calls up a close friend or relative to cope with the stress.
While driving, handling the phone is distracting,( if held to the ear), blocks the GPS path which the user might be following, and the battery runs out much faster.
Limitations of safety apps (mobile phones):
Ideations
Change the perception
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport
management related issues.
Predicting unsafe areas
Let the user know about unsafe locations and helping authorities take action.
Taking
action
Through force
temporary injury
calling the police
Creating a network of helpers.
Identifiable yet hidden enough for the user to operate safely.
Gaining confidence
Through force temporary injury calling the police.
Presence of people
surety of the location
distraction.
Knowing that help will be available
Distracting yourself from unwanted thoughts, or showing someone you're not alone
Rough ideations to get a direction
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Flashlight and speaker
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Headspace like audio to distract and calm the user
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wearable
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Flashlight and speaker
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Headspace like audio to distract and calm the user
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wearable
Final solution
What?
A device that would assist women to take informed and safer decisions about their mobility while travelling in a city.
The application would help create a network of trustworthy users who could help each other out in difficult situations.
How does it help?
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The device is discreet, can be carried around in the form of a keychain/ watch.
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The interactions are minimal and avoid any human error while alerting.
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Alerts/signifies the user if the location they've entered is rated unsafe. Hence help in staying alert by predicting situations.
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Helps the user send out distress signals to peers.
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Allows the user to ask for assistance from the community of Revv owners.
The device can be hung on a backpack, purse as a keychain, and on wrist like a watch with detachable fittings.
Revv UI concept
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