JP Morgan
Contact: "Elliott, Michael" <Michael.Elliott@jpmorgan.com>
Ideas for 2018
Michael says: Hi Alan – yes, we definitely would like to submit a project proposal (or two). When is the deadline?
That’s great Michael – deadline for finalised list of clients and design briefs is Friday 3 November. Alan
2017 suggestion
"Many charities rely on volunteer networks, but small local charities sometimes don't have the staff to maintain those networks. On the flip side, many people would like to volunteer to help a local charity but aren't able to commit a set number of hours per week. Micro-volunteering allows individuals to offer up their skills on an ad-hoc basis and for charities to take advantage of that, and is extremely valuable to smaller charities or community organisations.
Your task is to design a micro-volunteering exchange, that can match volunteers to opportunities in their local area. Locality is critical in micro volunteering, perhaps a graph database (like neo4j) would be interesting here.
2016 project
earlier version
Michael says: "I don't know that we have street by street data, but let me find out."
Different areas of the UK, or of cities like Cambridge, have wide-ranging differences in average age. Your task is to help people understand these differences by changing the appearance of an online map and/or street view, to simulate the issues faced by the people who live there. You can start with an interface allowing the user to drive through Open Streetmap or Google Maps, but modify local parts to reflect the age of people who live in that area. For example, the appearance of text and graphics might be modified to simulate visual capability of older users, navigation controls might simulate fine motor control issues (shaking hands, etc), and street scenes modified to show effects of reduced sensitivity to light in night driving. The resulting interactive system can be used both to better understand age distribution, and to help younger users appreciate the needs of the older population in particular areas.
even earlier
The first idea would be an application or game with the theme of "How does it feel to be old?". Some initial thoughts from AgeUk on that are:
"For a lot of Gen Y (or even Gen X) who use the internet, apps, games, social media on smartphones or tablets all the time, every day, it is really hard to imagine how using this sort of thing might be a really different experience for an older person. Older people may have fine motor control issues (shaking hands, etc), eyesight and hearing issues, and even just issues in processing information at a slower speed. All of these things may affect how comfortable someone feels about using websites, apps, or even doing simple things on a smartphone. How can we create a tool or an app or a game that brings this to life for younger people – and maybe helps them to think about getting involved with Age UK or donating as an outcome? "
The second idea would be data analysis and visualization around data representing the problems faced by older people in different regions of the UK (e.g. those in rural areas may be more affected by issues of isolation, whereas those in cities by issues of crime and security). Again, a very early description
"How can Age UK represent our complex regional-based data about older people in a commanding, visual way? We have complex data sets (we can send) in spreadsheet form that map occurrences of many different issues for older people, e.g. regional stats on disease, mortality, loneliness, health, etc etc. Could we find a way to visually represent this in a way that might be useful for PR purposes, to show to potential funders or donors, in a way that brings to life the multiple issues that older people use, and the way that Age UK helps in all its 165 localities"
If you think these are promising, I will work to flesh them out into more fully fledged projects. I think the first has some interesting aspects of user experience design, and has good scope for delivering a fully featured end product. The second perhaps offers scope for some creative thinking about data representation.
