Concat

Go Beyond Your Circles

About:

I created Concat with 3 other engineering students as a part of the 2020 McCormick Design-A-Thon, a virtual hackathon hosted by Northwestern that challenged students to come up with meaningful solutions to bring the campus together admist the COVID-19 pandamic. Within less than 48 hours, we developed a functional iOS app prototype with Figma, made a presentation, and filmed a 3 minute video detailing our design.


Problem:

Northwestern students who are not on campus lose the opportunity to organically meet new people outside of their bubbles without the anxiety of initiating contact with other students directly.
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Solution:

Concat is a social media platform that allows students to meet new friend groups easily, seamlessly, and intentionally

My Roles

As a design-oriented engineer, I focused on creating the graphics and branding for our concept while my teammates worked on building the Figma prototype. I also drew the animation in our final video and conducted numerous user interviews to gather inputs for our idea.

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Results:

  • 1st Place among our initial pod of 9 teams
  • Top 4 overall out of more than 40 undergraduate and graduate teams


    • Watch our final video presentation to learn more about Concat