Autism and Neurodiversity Community

Description:

Main website for the Autism and Neurodiversity community (ANC) that considers people with visual disabilities and allows easy navigation/access.
Project Type:

Launched product  
My Role:
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I throughly researched about people withs visual disabilities and created a website that specifically caters towards their needs. I used Figma to create the mobile and desktop version.
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Tools:
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Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
About ANC

The Autism and Neurodiversity Community is focused on establishing a peer support community for autistic and neurodivergent students. They act as an on-campus community for autistic students and help foster autistic identity, consciousness, solidarity and culture.
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Timeline
Research:

Thorough research on autistic challenges was conducted and visual design choices were made. This allowed those with visual disabilities to access information more efficiently. For instance, many people with autism find information easier to read when printed on a light-colored background (Franklin et al., 2008). Therefore, dark-colored backgrounds were avoided in the overall design. Fonts, such as Helvetica and Verdana, that have been shown to be easily perceived by autistic students were also incorporated (“Autism and the Assembly,” 2022). Additionally, symbolic meaning was incorporated to this website by using blue to represent the official color for autism awareness.

Works Cited
“Autism and the Assembly.” Northern Ireland Assembly, 2022, http://www.niassembly.gov.uk Franklin, Anna, et al. “Color Perception in Children with Autism .” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008, https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/5402228_Color_ Perception_in_Children_with _Autism.

Target Audience: Students in their early 20s with visual disabilities.
Main audience: Elderly audience between the ages of late 60s-90s, and students in their 20s.

Core Values: Provide a comfortable space for people of different ages to learn from one another.
Themes: Earth, nature, friendship, love, care
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Problem Framing
User Interview

Persona

I combined my earlier research with data in order to create a persona representative of the target audience.
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Low Mobile Lo/Mid-fi
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Focused on the text size, font, and layout.
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Visual Design

I Incorporated the color light blue as the main color in reference to the official color for autism awareness. For contrast, the color light yellow was used.

Final Product

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