Overview

With the surge of plastic straws and cups piling up globally, we see that people need not only knowledge but also a strong, immediate community and incentives to make eco-friendly choices. Our team tackles this riddle with SipWise — a mobile social networking app that fosters sustainable habits through community-driven challenges, events, and incentives.

TEAM

TIMELINE

24 hours

STATUS

Top 5 Finalists

PROMPT DISSECTION

Design a digital platform that helps individuals and communities manage and reduce their eco-footprint

Oh boy, tale as old as time, we are looking at the climate riddle once again.

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INITIAL BRAINSTORM

Climate positivity needs not a perfectly zero-waste person, but many imperfectly low-waste people

Climate change advocates and environmentalists

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Effective climate actions should be inviting and kind to imperfection

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People desire a like-minded community for a common goal

REFLECTION

A day of recharge later, here's my debrief

🌱 Working under time pressure

As an onboarding UX design volunteer, my first assignment was to improve the UI to boost membership — a network of volunteers, project owners, community partners, and sponsors. The goal is to create an engaging, intuitive interface that effectively communicates the value of tech-for-good volunteerism and simplifies the process of finding and joining projects.

With the already well-established platform, Reinventing the UI from scratch or taking away any existing content is impractical from a business standpoint, especially within the time frame I was given.

Therefore, I planned to approach any pain points to be found at the structural level and prioritize moving elements around to use the space more strategically.

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🌱 Collective climate efforts require hospitality