Kurb
Headstorm | UX Design Intern
Kurb is a winning civic hackathon idea that transformed into a live, collaborative, city-planning tool for the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WHAT I DID
Product: Kurb
Position: UX Design Intern
Role: UX Designer
Company: Headstorm
The peak of the pandemic affected local businesses in a devastating way. Third-party delivery services, meant to enable them, instead cost exorbitant fees. How can we give local businesses back the power while still ensuring health and safety?
PROBLEM
UNDERSTAND & DEFINE
User interviews
I gathered research from sitting in on several interviews with city officials and local restaurant owners in the Pittsburgh area. We discovered just how expensive it was to use third-party delivery services.
EXPLORE & CREATE
Wireframing & prototyping
User testing & demos
With 72 hours and a civic issue, we were passionate about, I, alongside a team of determined developers and creatives developed a functioning proof of concept. We set out to create a curbside solution that could help restaurant owners break free from hefty third-party delivery
I was part of the two-person design team in charge of making this hackathon product idea come to life. Using some of the material we designed for the civic hackathon as a foundation, we designed and helped ideate an entirely different purpose for the same tool. After three months of daily standups, weekly sprints, and bi-weekly demos and testing we completed Kurb.
service fees while enabling community planners to monitor their parking as the world reopens. I helped design countless screen mockups, interactions, and prototypes using Figma that were then later recycled as an integral part of Kurb.
Kurb is a collaborative geo-mapping tool that does two main things. Firstly, Kurb gives city officials a simple way to virtually map out and manage public space using a library of tools and markers. Secondly, it gives businesses and residents the opportunity to leave real-time feedback and actively participate in making community improvements.