Design for Social Good
Why it?
There are more and more people learning UX by projects, yet those projects given in Bootcamps are 1:4 options and repeatative; when I recall the most fulfilling satisfication I had while learning UX back in 8 years ago, it’s actually from doing something that’s real and contributes to something good or meaningful!
At the same time, there are a few things I have been wanted to improve or change for many months; by becoming a mentor at CareerFoundry, it gave me this confidence and belief that I can simply initiate a project, call for (volunteery) participants, meanwhile offering help to people who struggling to learn real UX practice.
Henceforth Fan-Path is alive.
Mentors/ The Crew
The Very First Pilot Project is decided among our crew, with the Open Gov movement of Taiwanese Government, while have observed the trend of caring and feeling relevant to policies and society in Taiwan has emerged in the past years, therefore we started this initiate: Tracking Bills.
You can read the initiatve document as below.
Link here ︎
Desgined Learning Plan
The program is designed for 3-month as one cycle, having chaniging group of mentees to continuously iteratie and develop on a long-term project;
Research
Workshop, Guidance & Deliverables
Mentee’ Presentation
Final Product (1st Program)
https://track-bill.herokuapp.com/bill?id=B000001
Next Step (2021)
Carrying the findings and learnings from the 1st Program, I conducted the second phase research for the project:
Focusing on the Stakeholder side, one of legislators in Taiwan as well as her office team, in order to understanding more scenes behind the certain, their painpoints and perspectives, moreover, opportunities to obtain their engagement to the design proposal.
Learnings
- To drive a volunteery project requires an adaptive and flexible approach in planning of resources, because it’s easily changed due to each member’s unstable capacity.
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Mentoring requires and always more practical to base on a Real Project, instead of unlimited framework or made-up situations.
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The combination of designer x developer indeed add value to the learning process; for our mentees who hasn’t had enough experience working in the industries, cross-functional team collaboration and communication would be a key learning from this program.