Pittsburgh Kindness Initiative

My team and I developed a website for the Pittsburgh Kindness Initiative (PKI) as consultants. The Pittsburgh Kindness Initiative’s mission is simply to spread kindness in Pittsburgh and beyond, and to track how far their kindness goes by encouraging people to pay the kindness forward. Before our consulting advice, the PKI would give a paper business card to whoever they did a kind act for, but there was no way for them to see how far their kindness was paid forward. Our team built and designed this website and new plastic, trackable business cards for the PKI so that people who received the cards could log onto the website and tell their kindness story. Users can also see other stories associated with their card’s tracking number, thus seeing how far the kindness has spread.

We used Wordpress for a content management system, in addition to a multitude of plugins. My main role on the team was the Content Manager and Front End Lead. I wrote the majority of the content for our pages and cards. I made wireframes of our site in its initial stages. I conducted user interviews, including ones with members of Project Smile, a campus organization dedicated to spreading happiness, to gauge what kindness means to our users. Also, I edited the HTML and CSS of our template in order to optimize it for our purposes.