Remembering the future - about growing old

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As a team of two Design Management students and one Digital Ideation student, our goal in this project was to enhance the lives of elderly people by addressing social problems they face on a daily basis. Furthermore, our main objective for this project was to bring value to society by developing a holistic and integrated solution. This solution should address social problems such as generational segregation and general personal challenges that come with growing old such as loneliness, social isolation, and lack of care. Our proposal would provide a service to elderly people that would enhance their quality of life by integrating them back into society.

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To achieve our goal we researched the topic of «growing old», clustered our newly gained knowledge, and found problem zones. After selecting problems matching our team’s goal we developed a solution and created a prototype. Furthermore, we looked into communication design to further promote our service. Lastly, we implemented our prototype and used the feedback to make some last adjustments and improvements.

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We focused on creating a regional service for Lucerne by designing a digital platform that connects people and provides them with the opportunity for knowledge exchange. Our service represents connection, sharing, and exchanging skills and knowledge between different age groups. With a matchmaking system, our platform can connect people who want to learn a skill with those who offer to teach it. We created a simple, easy, and understandable design for our website, which is appealing to all generations. To achieve this, we created multiple clickable prototypes of our platform and we got the opportunity to test them with elderly people. Our goal of this test was to see if they understood their way around the platform since they tend to have more problems with navigation on the internet than younger participants. We are confident that our solution can make a difference in the lives of the elderly but also for others. When we look into the future we see big potential for our service. Future elderly people will always become more technology-driven and the usability struggle which we have now will decrease.