Driving community participation through passion-based volunteer

Demystifying the act of volunteering through approachable language and relatable interests.

Type

Website Design

Client

MCCY OURSG

Industry

Government, Cultural Institution

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Role
Ideation, Wireframe, UI Design, Prototype, Usability Testing
Year
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020 (5 months)
Background
Agency

Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth (MCCY) stands to inspire the community and strengthen the Singaporean spirit through arts, culture, sports and promote volunteerism and giving.

OURSG website is an initiative by MCCY to redefine what community and community participation looks and feels like today. The goal is to excite, engage and enable citizens to volunteer through passions and removing the negative stigmas of volunteering.

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The Challenges

Challenge 01

Negative connotations to act of volunteering

Challenge 02

Information overload to create impression

Challenge 03

Unsure if mechanic work for non-volunteers

Solution 01

Tapping into familiarity In difficult situation

What we learned from the initial research done by the strategy team is that, volunteering feels like a commitment, a huge act of kindness, which could intimidate first timers or non-volunteers. To relief some weight off the ‘Don’t’s, we had to remove these negative stereotypes of of volunteering by removing barriers like distance, time and simplifying options by relating them to passions or interests.

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Solution 02

Reducing cognitive load in decision making

In order to grab the attention of the ‘Don’t’s quickly, the details of each event has to be just the right amount, without going too much into the specifics so as to not intimidate them with the vast amount of details.We extracted out the common and only minimum details required for users to make decisions if they are interested in the event.

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Solution 03

Fool proofing and finding loopholes

The team wanted to test out how the audience of different age group and volunteer background respond to the key features of the website. Together with a UX Consultant, we came up with a User Testing Plan that includes the key scenarios for the different audience profiles, as well as the test protocols.User Testing was conducted with lookback.io where the sessions are recorded and both of us had a fair share of leading the sessions.

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UI Design

Main Designer

I took the lead for all the designs, from iconography to colours and cards. Each passion is represented with a colour, and that makes the website looks light and welcoming. We made sure that the overall design style fits within the brand’s identity through close collaboration with the creative director from the agency’s creative team.

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What I learned

In order to increase conversion rate, a deep understanding of target users' behaviours and their motivations is really important. Especially when it comes to convincing something that these users are not intrigued/would usually steer away from.

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