Clothes for Care

Design Research
UX | UI

Project Overview

Our group was tasked with creating a social service pop-up for Texans. We found that there is a problem facing houseless communities in Texas when it comes to finding free clothing. From this, we created Clothes for Care as a potential solution.
The Problem

Not all companies that acquire donated clothing, donate it back to houseless communities, but they rather resell them for a lowered price. Due to limited options in acquiring free clothing, we identified this as a problem.
The Solution

Clothes for Care is a pop-up that would offer free clothing to five major cities in Texas on a need-by-basis of seasonal, business, school, and health (undergarments and socks). Through a system of donations, user kiosks, and on-site volunteers.
Contributions

Research:
Kristan Camacho
Taylor Killgo-Larson

Research

According to houselessadvice.com, options for acquiring clothes for people experiencing homelessness in Austin are difficult and limited to churches and homeless shelters. Carrying around too many clothes, especially seasonal ones, can become a burden. With this information, we chose to conduct a survey among members of the houseless community of Austin, TX, to better understand their situation.

With this information, we chose to conduct a survey among members within the houseless community of Austin, TX, to get into our problem.

Designing for our Users

This project took an approach to finding a solution for three types of users.

Kiosks were designed for our Houseless Users.
The Volunteer Interface was constructed to help the Volunteers work the pop-up.
Lastly, the Website was primarily designed for our Donors so that they might learn more about Clothes for Care.