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Effective Alerts

Push notifications alerting users of weather alerts, sports updates, and recipes from their favorite food blogger.

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Objective

Design push notifications to alert users of important information and make their lives better.

Scenario One

Let users know there's a heavy thunderstorm happening near their work. 

Creating a User Persona

For this challenge, I envisioned a single mom getting her kids ready for school. She needs to know if there are heavy thunderstorms headed her way so she gives her daughter a waterproof jacket for recess. She also needs to dress accordingly for work, so she doesn't get soaked on her way into KOMO TV.

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Scenario Two
A team just made a touchdown in a college football game. Let a sports fan know about the latest play and the current score. 
Generating User Empathy

For this notification, I envisioned a mom who is too busy with life to check in with her favorite sports team. But she is still a super fan. A push notification about a key touchdown by the quarterback of her college team could make her day.

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Scenario Three
Tell a user via push notification a cauliflower recipe from their favorite food blogger is now available.
User Story

For this notification, I pictured the same mom, who is stressed about what she's going to make for dinner that night. She needs a quick and easy recipe. What could make life easier than a push notification, from her favorite food blogger, popping up on her way to the grocery store? Score.

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Project Reflections

During this project I had empathy for users who are on the go and don't have time to red the news. Perhaps a single mom, who needs to know how to dress her kids for school. Who also needs to come up with an easy dinner recipe that she can shop for when she stops at the market on the way home from work. And just because she's a mom, doesn't mean she has no longer cares about her sports team. She does. These push notifications would hopefully make life for this single mom just a smidge better. 

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