GovHack is an annual Hackathon, imported to NZ for its first instalment in 2015 from Australia, with the goal of getting participants to "Innovate and create with Government data".
Over one weekend, hundreds of people from many different sectors of our community came together in their local centers to image new ways to make government data useful and accessible to all. Our team "Working Title" wanted to focus on using statistics about education and employment to help young people make educated choices about what they want to do after they finish high school.
We wanted to extract metrics that really matter — like salary and student loan information, work/life balance and employment rate, and use them to help students make useful comparisons between specific careers they are considering.
I had the pleasure of designing the look and user journey for our web app and working on the CSS for the final product.
"What's Next" went from being just a few scribbles on a whiteboard to a fully-functional, data-driven, mobile-responsive web app in just 48 hours. We put a lot of love into the project and kept testing and improving it even after the competition finished. We hope one day it helps a whole bunch of teens make their 10 year plan a whole lot less stressful!
This app was developed by kids and adults, students and full-time workers, data wranglers, business analysts and web developers. We were all united by our desire to make the step out of school and into adulthood just a little less scary.
I hope you enjoyed looking at our project as much as we loved working on it!
Leave a comment or a thumbs up and let me know what you think!
Leave a comment or a thumbs up and let me know what you think!