Post #10

How we got from essential job stories to mid-fidelity prototypes, think aloud testing, and a clear path forward for our final tool, Rematch...

Post #9

The past two weeks have been packed with synthesizing, prioritizing, and prototyping. We left off with concept testing in our last post, so naturally, we’re going to kick this one off with the synthesis that followed...

Post #8

After our first round of concept testing, we began synthesizing the feedback that we got on all our diverse concepts. While synthesizing, there was a lot of overlap in the overall feedback on each concept...

Post #7

After a (very, very) brief break, the Pittsburgh Foundation Capstone Team is back for the summer semester! We are excited to pick up where we left off at the end of the spring semester...

Post #6

In our last medium post, we discussed our plans to continue working on our presentation, report, and project website. We have made solid progress on those deliverables, and are working on finalizing our slide deck for the Spring Presentation next week.

Post #5

If you’ll recall the last chapter of The Pittsburgh Foundation Capstone team’s journey, we were determined to continue our research in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, through creating customer journey maps for donors and grantees and revising our service blueprint and stakeholder diagram...

Post #4

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind for The Pittsburgh Foundation Capstone team. We continued to synthesize our findings, spent a day at The Pittsburgh Foundation office, created conceptual prototypes to validate findings, and modeled the current state.

Post #3

For The Pittsburgh Foundation Capstone team, this past week has been all about generative research. Per our research plan, we are aiming to have our first bout of primary research completed by the end of February...

Post #2

After our successful kickoff meeting, which gave us lots of answers to our initial questions, we had more questions that we needed answers to. We began delving into how philanthropy, community foundations, donations, and nonprofits work in general...

Post #1

How can we use technology to connect donors to community needs? How can we utilize existing data to confidently make decisions towards giving to organizations that will make the biggest impact on society? How can we create a design that can adapt to the evolving needs of a city for generations to come?...