PRODUCT DESIGN
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Two earthquakes, one with 7.8 magnitude happened at 4:00 am while everyone was sleeping in their beds children alone in their room, and the other one with 7.5 magnitude happened the next day during midday when everybody thought it was safe to enter the damaged building to collect their survival kits and holdings. February, during snowy winter conditions in south-east Turkey, no one was prepared, for either of them.
The damage was extreme, 520.000 buildings collapsed along with many families trying to survive under the buildings. And there was no help, not until the next day, and only a few. Hundreds of villages were left out because there were simply no more professionals left. We were all heartbroken all the time imagining the conditions for these people and how can we help more.
So when we heard there’s a non-profit project shaping to help these people, we didn’t even hesitate to offer all our help. This collaborative project was with Getir’s developers and n11’s product owners and they need some people to handle all design parts. We paused any current project we had and focused on this one for 2 days straight to deliver the final finished product.
SCRUM AGAINST TIME
During this period all we watched during the day was the news, feeling terrible and useless. As Astro team, we wanted to go there and deliver any help we possibly could give. However, the living standards were harsh after the earthquake. There was no water, no electricity, no gas, no food, no toilets, and no place to stay during snowy days. And we were hearing news about how some gangs had been stopping the trucks that had been carrying water, food, and proper heating equipment and stealing the help. We were furious about how things were not handled well.
Getir and n11 team members were feeling the same way so the open-source project of Afet logistics was born. We basically would log into details for each aid truck to follow their transportation process and check materials. AHPAP which was the best non-profit organization who were working 24/7 to bring help where the government didn’t. They needed this specific tool to ease their process and track the aid.
I think we skipped a few meals while developing the designs of this project constantly attending meetings with the whole team including developers. Whatever page we completed, it was going straight to development. There wasn’t any minute to waste.
DESIGN SOLUTIONS
👉🏻 A simple dashboard with multiple profiles easy to create.
👉🏻 Only non-profit organizations’ admins could create more volunteer or driver-profiled users.
👉🏻 Each aid truck needed to be logged in and confirmed by the organization before the driver could start the transportation process.
👉🏻 If there’s a delay of any kind, the system sends an alert to the organization to call the driver immediately.
Early InsIghts In MVP
In the development process, product owners reached the non-profit organizations to set up their accounts. The project took 2 days to design and 2 weeks to fully stack develop. It was live in 3 weeks with completed debugging, ready for the organization to manage its volunteer aid process.
We had design revisions handled to remove some of the extra table items to keep the platform as simple to develop and as effective to use as possible.