Kaitlyn Zou

Design technologist passionate about digital experiences that enhance simplicty and human connectivity.

Let’s make something together!

Covid-19 Impact Project

~a website for social resilience

Developing a website for a social resilience project examining the effects of the pandemic on communities of color.

Type
Internship

Timeline
Oct 2022- Aug 2023

Skills

Figma, Frontend Dev, Responsive Design, Data Storytelling

Technologies
HTML, CSS, JS, Figma, Wordpress

Overview
Created by NYU ITP Professors, the Covid-19 Impact Project is a social resilience project encouraging the use of technology and the arts to examine and uncover the unresolved, unmitigated and disproportionate harm the pandemic has inflicted upon communities of color.
Prototype
Design prototypes were created in Figma.

Contribution

Development tasks were distributed among myself and one other developer.

For webpages, I worked on the Home, About Us, Data Storytelling, Memorial, and Dashboard pages.

For website components, I worked on the Footer component.

For all of my specific pages/components, I worked on responsivity.

Development
Developed in Wordpress using a custom theme, plugins, HTML, CSS, and JS.

Takeaways
Leveraging multimedia storytelling for meaningful impact: Working on the Covid-19 Impact Project has been deeply rewarding experience, giving me the opportunity to leverage multimedia to effectively represent lived experiences and memorialize the pandemic. While I primarily contributed as a web developer, I engaged in conversations across web design, social content, event planning, and data visualization, gaining a holisitic view of how different disciplines collaborate. This project reinforced the power of design and technology to foster awareness, evoke empathy, and bring communities together through impactful storytelling.