Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Promote action against climate change

Group "Promote action against climate change"

Project 1: My (carbon) footprint

Context

when? where? who? why?

"My footprint" is an application which provides you with your personal daily carbon balance according to your lifestyle. Promoting action against climate change is a high-level challenge. Therefore "My footfrint" offers the possibility to raise awareness about your personal impact on climate change. According to your profile, whether you commute on foot or by car ? whether you eat meat everyday or you are vegetarian ? "My footprint" will tell you how to optimize your habits in order to restrict your carbon emissions through tips notifications. To begin with, the users just have to answer the initial quizz to understand what is their polluter profile. Then, they will receive daily notifications with tips and pieces of advice to change their habits. Every two weeks, they will have the possibility to see how their carbon balance evolved and measure progress.

Target

for whom?

This application is designed for anyone who would like to know how to know his carbon footprint and how to reduce it. You may be young, old or just curious, environmentalist or not, this application will help you to choose the best way to consume and to behave in a more eco-friendly manner

Service offered

what? how?

This application offers a simple and pedagogical service to calculate and to improve your carbon balance.

Identity

Pick images to describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, techs, …) and name your service accordingly.
Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead its context.


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Project 2: Actionfirst

Context

when? where? who? why?

Actionfirst is a new type of social network which aims at promoting concrete action against climate change. It encourages its users to meet in their own town, or region, so they can organize concrete action to fight against the numerous issues of climate change. Indeed nowadays, many people want to make an impact, but they do not always have the means to do so. Therefore by meeting new people who share the same willingness to fight for their planet, they can easily collaborate and work together to make a stronger impact at a local scale. As an example, they can organize clean walks, launch awareness campaign in schools, or even heighten awareness by canvassing. Afterwards they can post photos or videos to illustrate their actions and share their different ideas to other communities all around the world.

Target

for whom?

The main target of Actionfirst is the people who want to make things change regardless of their age or gender. However the target is also the people who want to be useful or to give a hand for the planet.

Service offered

what? how?

The sevice is similar to a classic social network like Instagram or Facebook. Nevertheless Actionfirst has a prefdefined purpose and offers the possibility to connect people to each other in order to carry out collectively bigger actions against the effects of climate change. Therefore geo-tracking information is the key to develop synergies between people in the same area. The users will have to provide some classic pieces of information (name, age, localisation, ...), and they will have the possibility to post, comment and like trough their own profile. The app will regularly keep you update of the users who registered recently to connect you and enable you to discuss actions through an instant messenger.

Identity

Pick images to describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, techs, …) and name your service accordingly.
Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead its context.

Benchmark

References

books/films/articles/...