Share - Reduce and Reuse | Child Care

Clothes, toys and books required by children often go to waste when they have no more use for them. The failure to maximize their use will lead to resource waste. Transferring these unsuitable resources to other children who can make use of them enhances sustainability. This study aims to establish how sustainable interaction design can help to promote sharing between families with children. Specifically, it investigates whether designing a system or service that creates trust in interactions can encourage sharing and, consequently, promote sustainability. These concepts were explored through the design and testing of a mobile application, a sharing box, and an opening library kit.

Designer	Yingyin Xu
Keywords	Sustainable design, Sharing, Trust, Interaction design
Advisor	Michael Arnold Mages

Conceptual Framework

The findings provide the basis for designing a donation system that relies on trust-based sharing to drive children’s donations. The target platform should foster sustainability in children’s donations, which means it should build long-term relationships that facilitate the sustained sharing of children’s books, clothes, and toys that donors no longer require.

The sharing system will address two aspects of the needs of participants:

• Practical needs
• Educational needs

Design Principle

The design of the system is based on three primary factors, which provide the basis for meeting the design requirements:

• Trust - the design principle
• Sharing - the design purpose
• Sustainability interaction design – the design field

Sharing is regarded as the design goal, that is, transferring the unsuitable resources to children who really need them. Because trust is the most crucial element of the system, aspects that emphasize this value will play a central role in the design process. In particular, interactivity and virtual design will drive the design process because they embody trust. Interactivity is crucial because it allows participants to engage with each other more frequently, leading to the creation of trust through the accumulation of positive interpersonal experiences. The design requirements of the user interface that will play a central role in the achievement of this outcome include the effective selection of artifacts and services design that are based on trusting tendencies. In particular, sharing box design should embody usability, aiming to trigger the interactivity of children and parents. Meanwhile, the function and information design of the interface should embody the core of the trust principal. Thus, interactivity and transparency can serve as the design method to meet the design requirement.

Platform Design

The user interface can serve as a medium. Users can find and share giving through it. The collection should be a sharing box and library box.

Storyboard

What is the interaction between the users and user interface / sharing box / library box?

Prototype

Visual Idea

The relevant words of sharing: Warm & Growth

Color

Icon

Element

Font

Artifact Design

The user interface can serve as a medium. Users can find and share giving through it. The collection should be a sharing box and library box.

Mobile Application Design

The mobile application design will contain two sections, such as function and information design.

Function

• Restrict Geography: users just can find and share giving in their local group. They can enter the zip code to join a local group by Google map.
• Adjust Range: once users would like to create an opening library, they can adjust the range of inviting.
• Reward Tree: users can reward the giving after pick up.

Information

• Sharing Tracking: The statistics can represent the users’ sharing active, and aim to encourage more sharing.
• Sharing Box Location: Users can search for the nearby sharing box, and add it into their profile or detail information of giving posting.

Prototype Video

Demo