World Giving Project

We love our world. Lets rise together!

World Giving Project is a collaboration of successful small businesses marketing their products and services under one marketing vehicle. Our goals can be brought into five brief descriptions:
i. Inspire other businesses to follow suit into Conscious Capitalism
ii. Give back to the local communities where we do business
iii. Fund our “Passion Projects” to make a difference as individuals
iv. Create wealth and desirable, purposeful gainful employment
v. Change capitalism for the better

The project needed initial Understanding from client, and help design a solution that would create marketplace for vendors to participate and consumers to hire services, at the same time contributing to casuses they believe in.

• Goals: To design a marketplace for services in Energy and Real-estate with the intentions to support a cause.
• Stakeholders: Dustin Palmer, VP of PrinGroup
• The Process:The process involved interviewing stakeholder to understand the context an movtivations behind the project. The following activities were performed during the process.
1. Interview Stakeholders
2. Develop context diagram
3. Develop targetted persona
4. Brainstorm workflows
5. Design the MVP scope

More detail are available in Project documents

Project TLAP

Everyone deserves a second chance!

TLAP (Transition to Life After Prison) is the project dedicated to provide support to prisoners coming back after finishing their sentence. There are obstacles that people with criminal records face when they attempt to reenter society and become productive, law-abiding citizens.

This project needs was an outcome of Homeless Empowerment Initiative:

• Goals: To identify main causes and improvise the transition of inmates to normal life.
• Stakeholders: Jay Jenkins, Harris County Project Attorney
• The Process:The process involved interviewing stakeholder to understand the context and movtivations. The following activities were performed during the process.
1. Plan Research
2. Interview Officials and inmates
3. Research Synthesis
4. Ideation and Insight Generation
5. Prototypes and proposed solution
6. Project Documentation

More detail are available in Project documents

Homeless Empowerment Initiative

A little support and empowerment is all takes!

Homeless Empowerment Initiative project was an appempt to understand the underlying causes and inhibitors of why homeless individuals could not revert back to normal life and stay homeless for longer period fo time and in most cases through thier lives. The project was focused to understand the activities performed by city and other non-profit organizations towards empowering homeless individuals.

• Goals: To understand the existing scenario and generate insights to understand the causes of long term homelessness.
• Stakeholders: Sondee Hatcher, Vice President of Development, Search Houston
  Catherine Flowers, Board Member - Coalition for the Homeless
  Rebecca Landes, CEO - The Beacon
  Omar Fortune, Senior Workforce Planner - Workforce Solutions
• The Process:The process involved interviewing stakeholder to understand the context and movtivations behind the project. The following activities were performed during the process.
1. Plan Research
2. Interview Officials and inmates
3. Research Synthesis
4. Ideation and Insight Generation
5. Project Documentation

More detail are available in Project documents

Collateral Consequences

Information is power

Collateral consequences are legal and regulatory sanctions and restrictions that limit or prohibit people with criminal records from accessing employment, occupational licensing, housing, voting, education, and other opportunities. Collateral consequences most frequently affect people who have been convicted of a crime, though in some states an arrest alone—even an arrest that doesn't result in a conviction—may trigger a collateral consequence.

• Goals: Develop a solution that would help defendents take more informed decision making on their sentensing.
• Stakeholders: Jeff Aresty, President, Aresty Law group
• The Process:The process involved understanding the context and movtivations behind the project. Collating information and designing initial application
1. Interview SMEs to udnerstand the bigger picture
2. Creating persona
3. Ideation and Insight Generation
4. Prototype to present app flow
5. Project Documentation

More detail are available in Project documents

Dindr

If you like to eat out and love meeting new people, this application give you all the tools to do so. With a twist of a dating app, the feature includes browsing restaurants in network, create new booking, join existing booking, rate and lots more.

• Goals: To improvise the UX new app than previous one.
• Stakeholders: Zach Casler, CEO, Dindr App
• The Process:The existing app had usability issues, new app needs UX analysis.
1. Heuristics analysis
2. Usability Testing
3. Document Findings

More detail are available in Project documents

Houston Grand Opera

The HGO is one of the classic art forms have been popular since early days. Although Opera has been considered the primary way of entertainment among baby boomers, it is been observed that its charm did not reach to millennials as much. There is a need to understand entertainment value that Opera brings and understanding as context as a whole.

• Goals: Apply Design Thinking to the Houston Grand Opera to create better experiences
• Stakeholders: Judith Kurnick, Director of Communication, HGO
• The Process: Understanding and documenting opera viewer journey.
1. Stakeholder Interviews
2. Primary Research
3. Emapthy through emersion

More detail are available in Project documents