informare aims to unbiasedly inform American citizens about political issues in engaging ways so that they feel educated enough to vote. The application contains a game feature that allows the user to guess which presidential candidate said a certain quote about a certain topic, and then keeps track of their score (how many questions they got right total) and streak (how many questions they got right in a row). There is also an exploratory tool that encourages users to explore political issues. While users are exploring issues, they are presented with quotes that candidates said that they can like and then later manage to see which candidate said the most things they agree with.
For this project, my main role was a User Experience Designer and Front-End Developer. I wrote and distributed a survey that asked users about how they feel about politics and how educated they feel about many political issues. I then made sketches, a mood board and design language in order to figure out our interaction and visual design. Once we had a working developed prototype of the app, I conducted a user test on five American citizens, asking them to think aloud as they interacted with the app, and asked them to perform certain actions that our app offered. I took the problems I found back to the team, and we were able to solve many of them, especially problems with information hierarchy. Additionally, for our exploratory tool, I researched and wrote content for twelve different topics. I then designed the information that my partner and I wrote for all the topics using HTML, CSS and information design practices.