Ailsa Powell
User Centred Design
I'm an enthusiastic designer who specializes in User Centred Design.
Final year project
Nomad - Enhancing the Experience of Solo Travelling
Nomad
Nomad is an app that aims to enhance the experience of solo travelling for young adults. The app offers a travel community to reach out to and receive advice, including a chat to locals feature, as well as personalised travel and tourist recommendations based on your interests.
Further, a ‘Safe Spot’ feature, gives immediate directions to a verified public location that travellers can go to in emergency situations.
Nomad - Scrapbooking Page
Users can record and look back on their travel memories and mementoes through the digital scrapbook created. To take a scrapbook photo the user must click on the top left camera icon, which will take them to a camera screen.
Nomad - Discovery Page
The app offers travellers personalized recommendations based on their interests and history, while also providing a community of travellers they can reach out to and connect with.
Regrowth - NTNU Project
Regrowth is an app that works in partnership with existing charities and organisations, such as the NHS or SilverCloud Health, to provide users with access to professional level resources whenever, and wherever they are.
Regrowth - The Gardens
On the app, there are a variety of different Gardens that the user can ‘grow’. Each Garden represents a different therapeutic or psycho-educational programme, where completing a module or activity within the programme will form a new item in the Garden. Once a programme is finished, the user can see their progress in the form of a completed Garden.
Ailsa Powell
Final year project
Nomad - Enhancing the Experience of Solo Travelling
Awards
2022 - Gold Indigo Award: Student Mobile App - Awarded for Regrowth Project
2022 - Gold Indigo Award: Student Digital Design - Awarded for Regrowth Project.
2021 - Silver Creative Conscience Award: Mental Health, Wellbeing & Disability - Awarded for Regrowth Project.
2021 - Diploma in International Studies - Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
During my placement I was lucky enough to travel over to Trondheim, Norway, to complete a semester at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology through the Erasmus Scheme. Here I studied within the Facility of Architecture and Design and had the opportunity to experience living in a different country with a different culture.
I’m very proud to say a project which I undertook as part of this placement - a concept app called Regrowth that provides users with access to professional level mental health resources - has recently won a number of international design awards. These include two Gold Indigo Design Awards, as well as a Silver Creative Conscience Award.