Haven For Divine Restoration Website Redesign
The Haven For Divine Restoration, a non-profit organization, seeks to enhance its online presence by redesigning its website and donation page. The current site, built on the WordPress Avada theme, requires a fresh look that aligns with the organization's mission and aesthetic preferences. The project involves researching various website platform options, evaluating their pros, cons, costs, and user-friendliness, especially in terms of ease of updates post-redesign. The goal is to select the most suitable platform and proceed with a strategic redesign and rebuild, ensuring both mobile and desktop views are fully functional. This project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their web design and development skills in a real-world context, focusing on user experience and strategic alignment with organizational goals.
Haven For Divine Restoration Website Redesign
The Haven For Divine Restoration, a non-profit organization, seeks to enhance its online presence by redesigning its website and donation page. The current site, built on the WordPress Avada theme, requires a fresh look that aligns with the organization's mission and aesthetic preferences. The project involves researching various website platform options, evaluating their pros, cons, costs, and user-friendliness, especially in terms of ease of updates post-redesign. The goal is to select the most suitable platform and proceed with a strategic redesign and rebuild, ensuring both mobile and desktop views are fully functional. This project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their web design and development skills in a real-world context, focusing on user experience and strategic alignment with organizational goals.
Mentorship Platform Interface Development
Paragon One Data seeks to develop a comprehensive mentorship platform aimed at enhancing the mentorship experience through seamless communication between mentors and mentees. The project focuses on creating a user-friendly interface that simplifies the enrollment process, efficiently matches mentors with mentees, and tracks performance metrics. The platform should address the common challenges faced in mentorship programs, such as mismatched pairings and lack of progress tracking. By leveraging classroom knowledge in software development and user experience design, learners will contribute to building a robust platform that supports meaningful mentor-mentee interactions. The project will involve designing intuitive navigation, ensuring data security, and integrating feedback mechanisms to continuously improve the platform's effectiveness.
Deal Share - Mobile App Development
The project involves developing a mobile application named "Deal Share," aimed at facilitating the sharing of deals and discounts within a specific location. The primary goal is to create a user-friendly platform where users can easily share and discover local deals, enhancing community engagement and promoting local businesses. The project will require the team to design the user journey and create wireframes that outline the app's functionality and user interface. By applying their classroom knowledge of mobile app development, learners will gain hands-on experience in building a functional app prototype. The project emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and technical skills, providing a comprehensive learning experience in app development.
Mentorship Platform Design and Integration
Paragon One Data is seeking to develop a comprehensive mentorship platform that facilitates seamless communication between mentors and mentees. The goal is to create a user-friendly interface that enhances the mentorship experience by providing tools for enrollment, matching, and performance tracking. The deliverable should include wireframes that detail the user journey, ensuring an intuitive navigation experience. Additionally, the project will explore necessary software integrations, such as Zoom, to support virtual meetings and interactions. The platform aims to track progress and measure the impact of the mentorship program, focusing on goal tracking and progress reporting. This project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge in user experience design, software integration, and data analysis.
Deal Share App
Develop a functional mobile app that enables users to see nearby retail store sales available in a public domain based on zip code or location and have the ability to share the sale(s) with their friends or community The app will address the demand for up-to-date information on sales and promotions and will contain a feature to quantify the number of users who are benefiting from using the app. Confidentiality agreement will be signed to protect intellectual property. Here is the link to the working figma document: https://www.figma.com/file/LHrUhCAF6gOh7rpQ1CD48q/IDP?type=design&node-id=80-2774&mode=design This is the prototype after final iterations: https://www.figma.com/proto/LHrUhCAF6gOh7rpQ1CD48q/IDP?type=design&node-id=86-3036&t=hXpHJ8YqskTeFpCk-1&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=80%3A2774&starting-point-node-id=86%3A3036&show-proto-sidebar=1&mode=design User testing results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UWx94ppMbulsvN-EJJFAd6cdDp0rTAcqgnCdP5kVhZ0/edit Please let me know if you have any questions Mimi
Remote Employment Research Project
We are working within underrepresented groups to help place them in remote jobs while they are taking care of families, while working on completing school or training programs. The main goal for the project is to research and compile a list of 50-100 companies that are currently hiring for completely remote or work from home positions paying a minimum of $30/hour. The types of jobs should include IT, project management, medical device, pharmaceutical, retail fields, to name a few. The research team will need to gather information on the names of companies, industry type, job function, pay rate, and confirmation process to verify the companies are currently hiring and the positions being completely remote. Include links to the job or career websites.
Minority Business Enterprise Certification
The main goal for the project is to assist Paragon One Data LLC in obtaining Minority Business Enterprise Certification. This certification will provide opportunities for the company to participate in government and private sector contracts that are set aside for minority-owned businesses. The project will involve the following tasks for the learners: - Researching the requirements and application process for Minority Business Enterprise Certification. - Analyzing the company's ownership, management, and operations to ensure compliance with certification criteria. - Compiling necessary documentation and completing the application for certification. - Communicating with relevant agencies and organizations to facilitate the certification process.
Grant Writing For Education & Training
Our organization is interested in addressing societal issues and supporting social causes to help the underprivileged gain access to job, school or training programs. However, we are currently facing funding challenges. We would like to collaborate with students to find and complete grant applications targeted toward these causes. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our vision statement and a project we have defined. Developing a needs statement that characterizes the community problem and justifies the need for our project and funding. Identifying potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project. Improving the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Identifying new opportunities for community projects.
Mobile App UI / UX Design & Prototype
Our company would like to explore designing a prototype for a native mobile application. We currently have a concept of a mobile app to be used for shoppers to share information and we want to start to attempt to capture some of that design concept in a mobile application. Tasks may include: Conducting background research on our conceptual idea for the product. Identifying key areas of our current conceptual product idea and how they might translate to a mobile application. Learning and using various software design tools. We strongly recommend students learn how to use Figma as this is the latest and greatest tool currently available. Creation of a screen by screen UX / UI prototype of a native mobile application which can be used on both iOS and Android Conducting UX / UI testing with real potential users potentially involving paper prototypes or other software tools to support this
Website Development
We hope to update and revamp our existing website to attract more customers. We would like to work with students to develop a new website that is easy to maintain while providing an appealing interface for users. This can be achieved through common site building tools such as Wix, Webflow, and WordPress. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching different site-building tools and their associated advantages / disadvantages. Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable. Building a website, with our assistance in providing the content. Providing training on updating and maintaining the website. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Testing prototypes with customers and refining ideas with feedback.
SEO and Social Media Strategy
Our team is looking to take our social media presence to the next level in order to drive traffic to our website and social media pages. We want to build a brand to attract more clients, customers, followers and advocates. To do this, we hope to improve our search engine optimization, and create an optimal schedule for our social media posts to be uploaded. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching keywords to determine the most relevant terms that our customers search for. Researching Search Engine Optimization requirements for us to rank on the first page of Google. Constructing a content calendar to upload social media content for the maximum possible traffic . Creating social media content using the most efficient keywords for our target audience while following the content calendar. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Using our company’s social media analytics to tailor the content calendar to our customers activity, rather than general trends