Companimals

Companimals is a companion app intended to enhance the Woodland Park Zoo experience. Primarily catered towards kids, the app will aim to build a sense of empathy within the users by supplying up-to-date information about animals in the zoo. Statistics like names, age, origins, and other data about the animal will be explored. Other features of the app will serve to enhance the experience outside the zoo, such as livestreams of the animal enclosures, digital coloring books, home crafting projects, and many others.

In our initial group meetings, each member brought in ideas on what we had in mind to create for the concept. We had ranged from a video game, a redesign of the Woodland Park Zoo website, coloring pages that empathize empathy, and a product or service that connects the user with animals. We had a good variety of options but we combined the product that connects users with animals and activities that users can do inside the Zoo and outside the Zoo.

Here is the link to our Figma mobile application prototype.

Having the opportunity to work on a real-world project has placed me in a level of standard that the industry follows. The experience allowed me to fully immerse myself into thinking every single design decision and figure out how to best solve the problem that the stakeholder needs. From our decision making to our analysis of our solution, this experienced provided more freedom to fulfill my creativity and my potential as a designer.