VolunteerApp

A platform to connect organisations looking for volunteers with (young) people looking for opportunities to volunteer.

Goals

• Facilitate the process of matching organisations and volunteers.

• Encourage people to get involved in volunteering activities.

• Help manage, organise and validate volunteering work.

Stake holders

• organisations looking for volunteers.

• People seeking volunteer opportunities.

• Teachers who need to check and validate service hours for students.

• Parents.

Current Process

• Facebook volunteering pages.

• Ask local organisations directly.

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User Journey

1. As someone who want to volunteer I want to visit the site and see a list of organisations looking for volunteers and be able register my interest in particular roles.

2. As an organisation looking for volunteers I want to visit the site and add volunteer roles for people to apply to.

User Stories

1

As a volunteer

I want to

Visit the home page and have a brief explanation about what the site is about

Click on a button on the home page that shows me a list of organisations

2

As an organisation,

I want to visit the site, and click on an organisation button to add new roles that we need volunteers for

I want to receive emails when new volunteers apply

I want to be able to log in a see roles I am advertising for, and see how many people are avaliable.

User Testing Feedback

• Readme doesn't explain site:

  • Make readme better

• Colour scheme causes clashes:

  • Make a more focused colour scheme

• Home page overflow:

• Redesign home page, ensure it all fits on one page

• General Design:

• Make it look more like an app

• No form validation:

• Make sure we validate the form inputs

• Number of applicants so far

• We shouldn't limit the number of applicants, so maybe the applicants don't need to know how many other people have applied - have a "no volunteers yet" label

• Language

• Design might change depending on the language due to direction of text, design to account for both

• Why group roles by organisation?

• If we do this, we can't sort the list in a sensible way

• Instead, have the org name as part of the role listing, and then order by date, or org name or what we want to.

• Not much info on listing page, have to click through:

  • Add more information to each listing (Role 1, Org Name, Location, Start Date, End Date)

• No info on role you are applying for when filling out form:

• Add info on role to form page

• Home page info:

• Not hugely informative, make it more.