Senior Design

The light shines to physically show other supporters that they are never alone in the fight against addiction.

Interacting with the light shows your progress in healing! Check out what each color symbolizes! Learn, Connect, and Heal together!

NEW APP DESIGN! Learn, Connect, and Heal together!

3D printing my model!

Modeling

App design for Supporum™

Therefore, my design focus is targeted towards (but not limited to) the younger demographic ranging between 18 and mid 30s.

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"I've been putting myself aside to save hopefully somebody else's life and now that I've come to terms that I can't, I have to move on with my life and that means changing a lot," Khloé Kardashian said.

There may be a new way to identify and, in turn, control our negative emotions that occur throughout our bodies. Could this relate to the negative emotions that arise when caring for someone with a drug or alcohol addiction? What if we, as supporters, could take a step back and consciously lessen our negative emotions when coping with addiction?

An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer this past Thanksgiving, 11/28/2013, explains an appropriate way for a supporter to approach a suspected sufferer, but supporter can only help when a sufferer wants the help!

Inspired by Clarence Williams' "Orphans of Addiction", I gathered photos from the scrapyard in North Philadelphia.

http://www.pulitzer.org/works/1998-Feature-Photography

I then pulled the quotes and key points back out from my interviews and applied those points to the subcategories.

This company also has the goal of achieving social innovation with each of their projects, so we put our heads together and dug deeper with my insights from my research!