About this Site

This site exists as a project for a course called Frameworks for Technical Writing, as part of Portland State University's Master of Professional and Technical Writing.

Using a combination of research and synthesis, this project imagines an app that could solve parts of a problem that presents itself in communications: the technologically assisted breakdown of communication within families. This breakdown is a result of different purposes, abilities, and connections within family relationships that are increasingly mediated by technology.

To that end, this site traces an outline of what such an app could be, how it could be designed, and how users might experience it. Nothing in this project includes market research. The goal is not to secure funding for an app or get lost in the details of existing social media technologies, but to use theoretical frameworks in the discipline of technical communications to understand a problem and to propose a multifaceted solution.

This project was started in February 2022. This site was built with MadCap Flare, tracked on GitHub, and deployed with Netlify. Diagrams and mock-ups were assembled in Figma and FigJam. User interface elements come from Brainstorming UI Style Kit. Icons are from flaticon.