Happy Recycling
Overview
Happy Recycling is a website that empowers sustainability and responsible waste management.
After conducting research, we learned that one of the biggest barriers that stops people from recycling is because they are unsure of what can be recycled. Happy Recycling combats this by providing the necessary knowledge in an engaging and convenient package.
My contribution
Product design User research UX/UI design Prototype in Figma
The team
1 × Project manager 1 × Product designer 2 × Developers
Year
June 2023 - August 2023
Process
How it all started
My team and I all wanted to create an application that revolves around sustainability. As the product designer on my team, I created the problem statement and website design for Happy Recycling.
As I did research on this topic, I learned that many existing solutions and websites that target these challenges in recycling mainly list the items that are recyclable and include basic questions and answers. Overall, the content may be there, but it is hard for users to navigate and understand the different types of items that can be recycled with very little images and photos. This inspired me to conceptualize an application with interactive features, relying less on text-heavy content and emphasizing more on visual elements.
Because we only had 3 months to finish this project, I worked closely with the developers and project manager on my team to ensure that the requirements and specifications I created for the design were feasible and doable. I envisioned, prototyped, and guided the requirements of the design. After creating a few different mockup versions of the website on Figma and receiving feedback from my team members, I finally came to a solution.
Outcome
After iterating, changing, and testing the design to ensure it met the requirements, the website was finally completed. I created testing scripts and tested the usability of the design to ensure that it was easy and simple for users to use. The website provides a learn page that provides statistics, information, and reminders to help users learn the importance of recycling. The game page that has an interactive activity where users sort items into the correct recycling bin with labeled signs to help them learn from their mistakes and avoid improper recycling, and a special cases page that helps users find locations and contact information to dispose items that are considered as special cases. Our application is a fun, interactive, and simple way for people to learn the proper way to recycle.