We started from making the mindmap.
By making the mindmap, we are able to explore a variety of resources and
find more possibilities about our project.
We explored different aspects of the gender equality by each group
members and find a lot of resources. We also put up with some questions
needed to be solved through this process. According to the guidance of
our subject which named promote gender equality from early age, we
decided to find some way to connect the gender equality with children
education. We found that we need to provide more resource about this
specific topic to chilren in the way thet are interested in. By taking
the consumer habits into account, we decided to make APP of smartphone
which is most closely connected with people to provide the cartoons and
comics which most children like to give them a better experience to be
educated about the gender equality.
Next, we had a mindstorm together through the meeting on ZOOM and we
fefined our ideas time by time.
Usually the seeds of gender inequality are planted in people's mind when they are little, and it might be hard to break the stereotype when they get older, so if we could educate kids about gender equality from their early life, we can help build a society where women and men are treated the same way for the next generation. To achieve this goal, we will start by providing children contents about gender equality in a way that they can understand to shape their mindset, and help both boys and girls realize that they should be raised and treated the same way, and that they should respect each other. Blue is not only for boys and pink is not only for girls.
In a society where most people are connected by the internet and
where information flows at a speed rate that was never seen before,
we still have some social inequalities and especially between both
sexes. In order to remedy this problem, we thought it would be best
to put this internet to good use and adress our children all over
the world and teach them about problems they will be facing or will
be actors in while growing up. In opening their eyes by using
pleasable means we hope to improve gender equality and make the
world a better place to live in.
We also think that it would also be beneficial for the kid,since, if
he is at home, it would be more productive for him to watch and read
instructive content instead of playing some mind-numbing games on
his parents' smartphones. They can even talk about the comics they
read and the cartoons they watched with their friends and that would
share the information we want to convey on a broaden public.
This interface will be mainly focusing on reaching parents who have children at a young age (4 to 9 years of age) who know how to read or not : There will be some video content very much like cartoonic and for the more advanced ones who know how to read and are fond of comics they will also find help with what they are looking for.
For this first idea, our project is to make a website which will act
as an interface of many cartoons and comics that promote gender
equality. It is more like a guide to simplify the research for
parents who want to teach their kids about this very important
issue. So the website will have many themes to chose from like :
difference in wage, the right to dress as one pleases, the violence
in a couple, etc... And each time you click on a theme, you will
find links to cartoons and comics in relation to the subject.
After many discussion, we decided to change that idea that make a
website into another one that making an APP for smartphone. The
reason is that we think it is more in line with the consumption
habits of the users and it will be more convenient for them to show
the resources to their children. The APP will allow children learn
by themselves or learn with help from parents more easily.The APP
will provide the resources of cartoons and comics which we think
children will be interested in about the several topics about Gender
Equality.
As it was said before this article acts also as a reference for us in our project, as it directs as to the numerous TV channels we can choose content from in relation with the gender equality.
This article will be very useful for us as it gives us many data about how much impact we can do by adressing kids about these life matters. In addition to that, it contains many comics with great morality in relation with our subject that we can use in our website .
These three animated movies will be a great resource for us as they teach kids to respect one an other no matter the sexe of the person, and we can find many scenes in which it is the girl who is the hero of the movie. This will come very handy if we pick scenes from it and make cartoons or even better some comic book readings.
This website acts as a benchmark and as a reference to our project. In fact it is a benchmark as it presents kid-friendly channels to the parents that would allow them to leave their kids watching without any supervision necessary. Some examples of these channels are Cartoon Network, Disney Channel , etc ... which, apart from entertainment offer also some kind of positive moral at the end of a cartoon. This is also the main objective of our first project: combine the useful to the pleasant.
Only with our platform, you will not have to use a TV or any other device because every link will be posted on the website and you would be able to chose the exact content you want to watch with our many rubrics of gender equality problems.
This youtube channel is also a competitor to our project because not only does it offer entertainment specific to kids about the age that we are also targetting, but also it won't need the help of a TV set or any other device because everything can be accessed through a computer and on top of all of that it offers the possibility of choosing the exact content that you want to watch.
Still, we do offer exclusively content about gender equality that, when scrolling through their videos, we did not find at all, and that is the way we differentiate ourselves with our project.
This website offers help to parents in order to buy kid-friendly comic books for their children. But it is not as convenient as our platform because for most of the advised comics in this website, the parent would have to go buy outside and buy the comic from a book store, which is not only more costly but also it might not be the solution if you want some content right now.
After that, we entered into the the wireframe step. We used Figma to draw the basic outline of our APP. It includes the basic layout and design of the interfaces of the APP.
Then, we went into the Mock-up step. We started to defign the APP according to our topic and target users. We use the pink and blue as the background color and try to make it seemed cuter becuase it's for kids. We find some reesouces of cartoons and comics from internet and put them into the mockup to make it seemed like the real APP interfaces. We also image the potential problems our users may encounter to when they use our APP to create a complete and conherent process.You can find other details we have designed below.