OKAYTheme: Life In Lockdown

What if we are in a lockdown situation for more than a year?Date and Place: 17th May 2020 , Delhi Technological University,

Illustration by Calum Heath

Team

Name : Anirudh KunduTitle : UX Design student DTU Bdes, 2nd YearRole in the Project : Research and UX development.

Nancy KumarStrategic Design Manager, Growth and Innovation at Airbus

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Name : Raghav ByalaTitle : Visual Design Student DTU, B.Des 2nd YearRole in the Project : Video Editing and UI development.

Name : Sahil RTitle : Visual Design student DTU, Bdes 2nd YearRole in the Project : Graphic design and UI development.

Lockdown Scenario

The guidelines of dead body management during Covid - 19 Pandemic by Govt. of India :

ProblemStakeholders

Problem Ecosystem

PossibleFocus Areas

Final Focus Areas

Problem Identified

How to deal with the bereavement, grief and trauma of the loss of a close one during the coronavirus pandemic, due to the lack of proper funeral facilities.

Why is it an Urgent Problem?

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Fig . Taken from monecontrol.com/news

1. There are applications and interfaces that help with providing mental healthcare. But neither are they well reviewed nor are they problem focussed.

2. In addition to the lockdown, the trauma of losing a close one due to the pandemic and further being unable to carry out the last rites properly is a devastating issue at hand.

Number of Government Resources and Policies for the Coronavirus Pandemic3. The complete absence and lack of attention towards the deteriorating mental health of an individual due to the coronavirus pandemic is an alarming cause of concern.

4. Since the repercussions of every death are different, a detailed segregation becomes hard. Yet a certain level of special attention and focus must be projected upon the coronavirus induced deaths and the cases related to it.

Solution :

REPRESENTATIVE PICTURE OF YOUR SOLUTION

DESIGN BRIEF :An interface for the betterment of the mental health conditions and to make the funeral process more efficient of people who have lost a close one due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

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Interface Interaction and prototyping.

User Experience

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Link to prototype :

https://xd.adobe.com/view/2ca9a95f-6ccc-4d21-4608-a65eee08fa5b-5a98/

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Final screen view

ExplorationsIdeas that did not make it.

Design Process

It was a methodically structured yet open ended process with several brainstorming and working sessions by the team.

Impact A graphical representation of how OKAY solves and impactes multiple problem areas.

ConclusionOKAY is a platform that provides a protected space dedicated to our loved ones who are no longer with us anymore due to the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

It helps us deal with the bereavement and trauma of losing a closed one keeping “the new normal” as the foundation of our vision. Furthermore it enables one to perform a funeral in a safe space with family at a time when emotional and physical distances loom large. It also allows us to send off our dead with dignity and empathy while adhering to all religious sentiments to give the grieving family closure and comfort.

OKAY is a digitally empowered perspective to disentangling the myriad of problems that the present and possibly a lot of the upcoming generations in the future might face. As the global habitual paradigm is shifting fiercely towards a more virtually encircled way of life, a question that needs to be asked is how to step out of the circle and focus also on the way of loss of life and what follows. There are a lot of questions that form the frame of the picture that a loss paints in one’s mind, and at the crux of our journey to solving the problem lies the idea that “It’s okay to not be okay”

we’re OKAY, hope you are too.

Thank you!

A great learning process and an unforgettable experience we would cherish for a long time. Working under the constraints of the national lockdown due to the pandemic challenged our competitive brains and fueled our desire to help out such a cause and further develop our project even more.

Lastly, we would also like to thank Nancy Kumar Ma’am for her invaluable mentorship and guidance throughout the course of work.

- Team S A R