Empower young adults to share difficult conversations

This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to use your UX and creative skills to support okayso (https://okayso.co/), a safe space where young adults can ask any personal question they have and get an answer they can trust.

This iPhone app connects users to teams of vetted experts who provide personalized support, advice, and answers to questions about sex, dating, relationships, identity, anatomy, mental health and more, in an environment that is open and inclusive and where sensitive topics and difficult subjects are de-stigmatized.

Our Design Challenge

Sharing the Conversation – How might we create an intuitive, safe experience for users to:

• share their personal conversations with experts to the larger community while assuring the anonymity of all participants
• search, access and engage with conversations that were previously shared in a positive manner

Before The Event:

• Download the okaySo application to understand its features: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/okayso/id1365667393
• Review the okayso Design Challenge Description for more details on the challenge and our target user (this will be shared with you once you RSVP)
• Review the okayso competitive analysis to understand how other applications have addressed sharing the conversation (this will be shared with you once you RSVP)
• Brainstorm ideas for the step by step mobile application experience to solve the design challenge

Who should attend

Those who want to use or improve their UX/prototyping skills by helping a real organization in a team environment: UX and UI designers, product designers, researchers, product people, developers, aspiring UX professionals and other tech people. Anyone who wants to collaborate with new people to participate in making a difference.

Workshop Agenda
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM - Networking
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM – Introduction to Okayso
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM – Mini Design Sprint
8:30 PM – 8:45 – Team Presentations
8:45 PM – 9:00 PM – Wrap Up

Please bring your laptop loaded with your favorite design application.

What’s UX for Change?

UX for Change is a global platform that connects non-profit organizations with the UX community to raise awareness of how the discipline of User Experience Design can contribute to the goals of any organization.

Started in London four years ago, our newest chapter in New York City is on a mission to bring talented creative professionals together to make a difference.

The way we lead our events is simple. We identify a non-profit with a challenge that we believe can be addressed with UX artifacts or methodologies and we then organize an event and find an inspiring facilitator to guide us through solving the challenge.

During the event, attendees collaborate in teams, brainstorm, prototype their solutions and then present their idea for feedback from the client non-profit organization. Our goal is to create a win-win situation for both the UX community as well as the non-profit organization and provide a conduit for ongoing volunteer opportunities for design professionals who wish the support the non-profit following the event.