How might we grow college students’ (ages 18-24) connections to their interests, and through this experience, empower and enable them to find a like-minded community?
A lot of people may know what they are interested in but do not know how to go about exploring those interests or are too scared to. We want to assist the users in exploring their interests so that they will also be able to find a good community that will continue on with them in life.
Dopple is a directory to find and start interest communities, designed by students and for students. We hope to guide users to online and in-person communities through centralizing information on what and where things are taking place, and democratizing that information-sharing.
We chose this project because as students who came to UW in the midst of COVID we struggled to find a community or people to share our interests with, and while COVID definitely exacerbated the isolation.
Dopple was conceptualized in an upper level user centered design course in spring 2021, it was a collaborative effort between Andrew Christensen, Esther Sohn, Renee Chien, and Justin Yang.