Cornell Tech:
COVID Vaccine Map
Advocating vaccine opportunities to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in New York City.

OVERVIEW
This is a three-week passion project where I explored opportunities of COVID-19 vaccines by demoed a web interactive map that outlined vaccine information in New York City, allowing residents to sign up, find locations, make appointments, as well as redeem rewards. This ultimately aims to ease the process and address existing medical burden during pandemic.
This project was proposed to the campaign "Design to Combat COVID-19" in April 2021.
TEAM
Angela Chen (designer), Shengnan Han, Jingchun Huang, Yi Rong (developers)
WORK
Web Design, Visual Design, UX Research
TOOLS
Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Pencil ✏️
DURATION
April 2021 (3 weeks)
Outcome
Overview
Design a new method that advocates the matter of vaccines and their rollout to New York City residents who can easily access and action out with reward incentives.
Challenge
How might we allow encourage NYC residents to engage in taking vaccinations so as to raise their awareness of COVID-19 conditions, prevent its spread and loosen the burden of hospitals?
Research
The year of 2020 was a challenging year, and the world has been greatly influenced by the pandemic. Although the government put huge emphasis on vaccine rollout, booking a vaccine appointment is still a chaotic process. Challenges prevent people, who are not familiar with modern tools, from getting protected. The overhead sets a boundary among people, technology, and protection.

Meet the users


Julia Minerva, 29, Doctor
I really wish that more people are ready for vaccinations because our hospital is under too much burden for supporting patients who are affected by the virus. Actions are necessary to introduce and ask people to get vaccines.

Stuart Peterson, 38, Bank Manager
I want to find an easy, highly visualized system where I can find the most up-to-date COVID information and vaccine opportunities in NYC, because my job is primarily client-facing.
Opportunity
evaluation
Walking through the brainstorming sessions, we determined two opportunity spaces that are more feasible.

Solution


Visual system
The theme color of the vaccine map is green that a represents safe, trustable resolution to combat the coronavirus. I also created icons and buttons that best illustrate the actions of searching and making appointments.
Things learned!
Design
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Designing a consumer-driven product needs clear user voice and strong logic thinking to simplify user flows and clear visual hierarchy.
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Flexible with iterations and adjustment but strictly ties to the product and users goals.
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Comfortable with ambiguity.
Communication
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Include engineers as early as possible, especially at brainstorm and ideation.
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Get feedback from the team and mentor promptly.
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Making mistakes were fine, but I learned from them and was able to improve.