A mobile app to stay informed about neighborhood incidents.
In a time when social media brings more noise than signal to people's communication, SoSafe is an effort to bring a sense of community and safety to neighbors. It was an honor to work for such a challenging mission and have the opportunity to talk with users, learn more about their concerns and came up together with design solutions to make them feel heard and safe.
An interesting challenge to work on was the spacing system for three different operating systems. When working for such a wide number of devices you can tell the difference between thinking about space as separation of visual elements, and space as a variable that gives order and set the dimension of components for specific screen sizes. As a UI Engineer I had to come up with a common language for iOS, Android and Windows in defining specific spaces for margins, paddings or absolute positioning, that way we will know the behavior of a component, mantaining its consistency, no matter the operative system or screen size.
I had the opportunity to work on a weekly activity notification, which show users the number of reports they’ve made in the app, along with the people that they helped (users that’ve received the report) and the amount of thanks they got (similar to likes).
The intention behind the development of that feature was to visualize the impact of people's activity in the app, showing them their real-life impact, and to take the opportunity of thanking the institutional entities that took care of emergencies.
The result was an increase of overall activity on the app and thousands of users reaching to us with messages of appreciation about the weekly report.
