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Proprietary SafeWalk Feature
User Generated Safety Report
NightWalk Integration
• Understanding the problem
• Gathering insights
• Goals and Requirements
• Conceptualizing solutions
• White-boarding ideas
• Narrowing scope
• Gaining user perspective
• Re-evaluating solution based on feedback
• Building a design system
• Creating interactive prototypes
Users felt very unsafe walking at night due to low visibility, abundance of homeless and fewer pedestrians
Users waste time utilizing inefficient late night transportation services or money uber-ing back late at night.
Users either lacked awareness of UW safety services or found them lacking in quality (live tracking, inefficient, etc)
Ensure users are aware of the various safety resources they have access to
Allow users to track and get live updates about these safety resources
Present resources in a way that users can easily access and navigate through
Make sure users can successfully engage and inform their community
A place for users to get a general understanding of the multiple features of this application. Provides access to Call, Report and visually represents key areas.
Provides users with the safest path to their destination while taking into account several factors that might affect their well being
A feature that enables users to call a campus police officer to escort them to their destination late at night
A feature that gives users the location and bus schedule of the NightRide transportation. It is a late night bus that drops you directly to your home.
A quick call mode to allow users to rapidly connect with safety hotlines along with their emergency contact and closest friend (calculated based on distance)
Gives users the power to report incidents that threatened their safety which in turn helps the community as well
Tapping the red circles on the map provides users with visual data analysis on the trends in crimes in that area
A way for users to configure their preferences and customize who they provide their location to