Lumina xD
In a world facing issues like environmental damage, social inequality, and lack of resources, innovative solutions are crucial. Lumina xD is vital as it sparks change by empowering entrepreneurs to tackle these global challenges at a local level.
Lumina xD focuses on key areas like sustainable farming, water conservation, and youth leadership, helping entrepreneurs not just start businesses, but create movements that make a significant positive impact. This strategy contributes to a sustainable future by providing practical, community-based solutions.
Design Challenge
Guiding Social Impact Entrepreneurs
Develop an app or web based system that helps to guide social impact focused entrepreneurs through the phases of developing their business.
Supporting and Financing Start-ups
Help guide, support and fund local entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Submit Ideas, Receive Feedback, and Secure Funding
Provide a vehicle to submit their ideas, gain feedback, find support, gather information and receive funding.
From Discovery to Growth
Through four major stages: discovery validate, launch and grow.
Design Process
Research & Gathering Data:
We conducted research to understand the financing challenges faced by social impact entrepreneurs and to identify innovative solutions to bridge these gaps. Additionally, we explored the obstacles that hinder the seamless integration of technology into social impact initiatives.
Based on our findings, we propose strategies to enhance the technological capabilities of social impact entrepreneurs.
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Digital tools are widely used and important
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Networking is critical
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Challenges can arise at any stage
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One size does not fit all
Brainstorming
During this process, we collaborated to study the workflow in the discovery phase of the OneHumanity design challenge based on the existing flow chart provided by industry partner. We then brainstormed and mapped out our ideas and workflow. Throughout this process, we encouraged the proposal of all ideas, no matter how unconventional they might have seemed because we all believed in valuing each one as a potential contributor to a meaningful solution. Together, we explored these ideas before finalizing our approach.
Once we had outlined the user flow, we transferred it to Figma to visualize how it fits into the broader picture building coherence in the team. Throughout this phase, we engaged in discussions to verify that our conceptualization of the user flow was well-aligned and prepared to serve as a guideline for the low-fidelity prototype.
In the wireframe and prototype stage, our main goal was to create designs that are easy to use, accessible, assistive for potential clients as we always remind. During the process, it’s important for us to check that our potential product works well and is user-friendly through testing. We aim to communicate our design ideas clearly to everyone involved, using their feedback to make our designs even better. Working closely with professors and industry partner ensures our designs are possible to build within our project's limits. Through this process, we hope to make the development process smoother helping our project succeed and meet our goals.
Mid-Fidelity Wireframes
User Testing
After mapping out the user flow and developing the mid-fidelity design, we created specific tasks and questions for user testing to concentrate on the overall user experience. We reviewed the user flow and design with Professor to gather suggestions for improvement. Following these refinements, we plan to launch the user testing to gather feedback to analyze patterns in the data making it clearer where improvements are needed.
Learning through Feedback
Creating a User-Friendly Platform for New Entrepreneurs: Focus on users who were new to business and made sure our platform was user-friendly and helpful for them as they began their journey
Responsive Development: Giving feedback regularly based on what users say they need
Building Community Connections: Facilitating their connection with the community
Idea Organization on the Platform: Make it easier for users to team up and organize their ideas
High-Fidelity Designs
Idea Organization on the Platform: Make it easier for users to team up and organize their ideas
Prototype
OneHumanity
OneHumanity is a social focused fund creating a global impact venture platform to help make the world better.
Vision
A future where we give more to each other for our collective future. More empathy for others, a true desire to help, action to solve real problems together, to make a better future for all humanity.
Mantra
OneHumanity focus on the biggest problems, impacting them with the simplest of solutions.
Future Directions
Expansion of Educational Resources: Develop a comprehensive library of educational content and courses focused on specific aspects of social entrepreneurship.
Enhanced Collaboration Features: Introduce more tools for collaboration among users for entrepreneurs to work together.
Broader Network and Partnership Development: Extend partnerships with universities, industry leaders, and other relevant organizations.
Incorporating AI-Driven Insights: Utilize AI to offer more actionable insights and foresights based on market trends and potential emerging social issues.