Uppertunity Design Team
Collaborations
In the research & development in Phase 2 (April 2022 - March 2023) , Uppertunity recruited a design team of professionals with expertise in relevant areas to develop the concept of a Volunteering Passport and Wellbeing Monitoring Tool. Those areas are: wellbeing, user experience (UX), culture and behavioural change, human-centred technological platforms. The design team collaborated to design, implement our research strategy; substantiate findings; and co-produce the research outcomes.
Volunteer Passport & Wellbeing Monitoring Tool
Valuing Volunteer Voice and Wellbeing; Making New Connections, Enabling New Solutions.
The Tool, is an App that can facilitate working relations through different communication channels, supports volunteer wellbeing, and supports the current infrastructure in place for volunteers and managers.
The development of the proof of concept has been co-designed with volunteers and managers, and has been designed in-line with how they believe a digital product could live alongside their practice, addressing specific pillars of wellbeing and supporting a positive volunteer experience. The anonymised quantitative dataset from this platform provides a valuable public asset to support policy development by Government and the Third Sector.
The App can help people make new connections to volunteering and during volunteering. That is why it can enable new solutions to recognised problems with engaging volunteers sustainably.
Volunteering, The Social Fabric of a Caring Economy.
The impetus driving the work was a vision of Scotland where volunteering was fully recognised as the social fabric in a caring economy. Pulling together the impact of volunteering like a ‘zipper’ across Scotland. Providing teeth for communities to manufacture locally designed caring communities by measuring the difference they make. The aim being that it helps bring a fastening of an economy that has people and wellbeing as its most valued material.