Sunnyside Art
Supplies
Client work in Calgary
Website Re-Design for Kensington’s #1 Art Supply Store
client
sunnyside Art Supplies
Year
2025
Category
ux design
As somebody who actively engages with local events in Calgary, I found it hard to find information about all local events from one dedicated source. While there are some Instagram pages and websites that post what’s new in the community, none seem to offer a seamless and straight forward experience. This gap is what sparked the idea of Mera – an idea of potentially putting all local events of Calgary into one app.
Our Interactive Design Diploma class tasked us to find a real-world problems and to then pitch the ideas of our solutions to each other. After presenting the idea of Mera, I gathered a group together that also were interested in pursuing my idea and it took off from there.
Our Problem Statement
Residents of Calgary want to experience a variety of local pop up events, but information is lost across various platforms, making this difficult. At the same time, small businesses want to increase brand awareness and sales, however are limited in reaching their target audience. Therefore, community engagement and local economic opportunities are often missed.
Product Design
UX/UI Design
User Research
Group Work
UX Writing
Design Thinking
Product Design UX/UI Design User Research Group Work UX Writing Design Thinking
Initial Idea
This problem addresses two different user groups: the citizens of Calgary that want to attend local events; and local business owners that want to market their events. Therefore, we knew that our platform that we were designing needed to be versatile to service both event-goers version and can easily swap over to vendor-focused for businesses.
Through the research section of Mera, we learned how to word our questions and receive feedback that allowed us to receive both qualitative and quantitative data. We created two surveys: one for the user and the other for the vendors. The survey had questions that were closed, open-ended and multiple choice to allow us to collect a good mix of different kinds of data. We then shared the online surveys through social media and printed posters, as well as reaching out to small businesses around Calgary.
