green guide: recycling right App design

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Sierra Arnold (Digital UX Designer) + Ebony Johnson (UX Writer + Content Designer) + Kristina Lopez (Copywriter)

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📝 Project Description:

green guide is a mock-up for an app-based software tool developed to connect users with quality information, community resources, recycling locations, and identifying eligible or incompatible materials to help people quickly and easily identify what to recycle, where to recycle, and how to recycle.

Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. It is beneficial, sustainable, and cost-saving for you, your community, and the environment.

⛰ Goals:

➕ To make the process of recycling easy and user-friendly.

➕ To encourage participation in recycling practices.

➕ To inform and educate proper recycling measures.

➕ To help heal the planet and support climate change through shared resources.

App pages. There is a "Get Started" page, a "Create an account" page, and a "Welcome back!" page.

A "your location" page, a tutorial page and a "take a picture of the item" page.

An information of how to recycle "#5 Plastic" page, and a "recycling center locator" page.

green guide branding

Branding ✨

For the green guide, we wanted an approachable, user-friendly app. By using s sans-serif font (Rucksack) and by using lowercase fonts, we wanted to create a feeling of friendliness and to have a welcoming environment to all.

Meaning behind the icons:

• Effective information (cell phone icon) to teach them the basics, intermediate, and advanced ways of recycling.
• Practical resources (light bulb icon) to utilize the app and community knowledge of recycling opportunities.
• Connecting locations for recycling (bottle icon) essential materials like plastics, glass, aluminum and more.
• Shareable materials that are either eligible or incompatible for recycling or reusable methods (shirt icon) for sustainable living.

These features will be used to benefit the recycling efforts in the user’s individual communities and beyond as we work to fight climate change, supply chain issues, environmental damage, and more.

An advertisement concept for the app

✨Check out the prototype here! ✨



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- Abigail