Bridget Widgets App
Academic Institution | Pratt Institute
Course Title | CDGD 412: User Experience
Instructor | Christine O'Dell
Project Type | Group Course Project
Collaborators | Jamie Loverdi (BFA Candidate, Communications Design), Yuri Chang (BFA Candidate, Communications)
Date Completed | Fall 2022
Course Title | CDGD 412: User Experience
Instructor | Christine O'Dell
Project Type | Group Course Project
Collaborators | Jamie Loverdi (BFA Candidate, Communications Design), Yuri Chang (BFA Candidate, Communications)
Date Completed | Fall 2022
Project Overview
Bridget is a widget app that allows users to strengthen their connections to others and their inner selves with quick but meaningful interactions through easily accessible widgets. This is a group project for my UX class in which the challenge was to consult the Pew Research Center study “In Their Own Words, Americans Describe the Struggles and Silver Linings of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” to inspire our project and create a novel and compelling interactive system that provides a meaningful experience.
My group's quotes, selected from the Pew Research Study, centered around reflection and (re)connection. We found that during the COVID-19 shutdown, isolation gave many people the perspective that our relationships matter most. However, as our busy schedules return, some
are struggling to maintain fulfilling relationships with others and themselves.
are struggling to maintain fulfilling relationships with others and themselves.
Our design response, Bridget, is an app that houses a variety of widgets for users to choose from, customize, then display on their home screen. Bridget Widgets focus on facilitating connections of all sorts. Widgets for strengthening self-connection include grounding and gratefulness exercises. For connecting with others, users can share gratitude, music, drawings, and notes with one another. One of our more unique widgets features a way to connect with your pets from afar using a pet camera. Additionally, our widgets offer options for people going through the grieving process from a lost connection with someone who died.
My responsibilities in the project involved creating the system requirements, brand identity, and analyzing our user testing results. Above is a video of the specific task I developed, which focused on a grounding technique for reconnecting with oneself in the moment.
