Advocates for AAPI Women

Overall Prototype
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Inspiration

Taking inspiration from Brandon Stanton’s photoblog, Humans of New York, Advocates for Asian American and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPI) Women, focuses on sharing the stories and experiences of AAPI female identifying persons. Our team was also inspired by the recent acts of violence against AAPI women in America and the call to action raised by the organization, Stop AAPI Hate, (https://stopaapihate.org/).

What it does

We wanted to create a safe space and support system for people that have been affected by AAPI violence/harassment and allow them to share their stories and experiences. The site home page is designed and coded to cycle through random stories and photos of women willing to share their stories (via a database provided by users). Visitors of the site are welcome to contribute by sharing the site with others, or by submitting their own photos and stories of their experiences as AAPI women in America.

How we built it

We built our project prototype using the platform Figma. We also used Google Docs to compile our notes and general text writing. Using various free resources online like Unsplash and Creative Commons, we found photos in the public domain for the personal photos of AAPI Women and used real quotes from articles about people’s experiences as an AAPI.

Challenges we ran into

For all of our team members it was our first time using Figma and designing a website from scratch (we learned as we went). Initially we started with 4 members, however due to scheduling conflicts and loss of motivation, we ended up with two members and only began creating and designing our website prototype late Saturday.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Due to the time constraint we weren’t able to finish everything we wanted to, but we got a pretty good start. The prototype we have now is a rough draft of the vision we have for Advocates for AAPI Women. Coming from a place of generally no website design experience, this was challenging as well as exciting.

What we learned

There’s so many resources out there for UI/UX design! It was a relief to receive help and information from mentors and allowed us to grow in our general knowledge! We also learned a lot about teamwork and cooperating, especially with random strangers we met just a few days ago.

What's next for Advocates for AAPI Women

We want to focus on bringing more awareness to the website and the outlash against the AAPI community. Whether that be fully developing the website, or educating ourselves more on the topic, it would be wonderful to see a full fledged website or organization (maybe non-profit) one day, equipped with real stories and people.