Solveig Ranøien Engen

Web Developer Student at NTNU

"Go ahead and live with your head held high. No matter how devastated you may be by your own weakness or uselessness…set your heart ablaze." - Kyojuro Rengoku

My previous work:

Housemate_HQ

What?

Housemate HQ is a tool for student housings to get to know each other in a low stress environment. Essentially it’s a Speed friending application to reach out and match based off of interests and create activities with your new friends.

Why?

As we’ve seen and researched a decrease in attendance for social events and an increase in self-isolation, we wanted to lower the threshhold for reaching out and creating connections. Student housings (Kollektiver) are often in a messy state and we were hoping that by creating a place to increase communication it would be easier to reach out and talk about improvement.

How?

A Tinder like matching feature where in theory is based off of your location as in student building. You can add friends and invite publicly and privately to social events.

How?

A Tinder like matching feature where in theory is based off of your location as in student building. You can add friends and invite publicly and privately to social events.

How?

Paired with activity status, the app subtly promote «I’m free and available for a hangout» and makes the process of making plans easier

Self_Help

What?

Self_Help is a digitalized activity journal to be used as a tool organizing everyday life. Interactive and user-oriented features support a costumizable template for the user to use for any areas they’d like self improvement on. The site is oriented to focus on root problems, but support custom goals.

Why?

At the time I was very into reading self-help books. Wanting a companion platform to support my own character development I created Self_Help. As a student myself, students’ wellbeing and mental health is important so I wanted a subtle approach to increase the mental state. Subtle reminder to eat around dinner time paired reminders to go outside and motivational words all have good intentions.

How?

This light and dark mode supported platform is enhanced from the original projectgoals with new technology I learned as the year went by. Now using Web Component to recommend weekly activities from a JSON file it now supports a bigger project.

How?

The pictures featured on the page are not mine! they are taken from Pinterest and is of Ice Bear from the show We Bare Bears

Sustainability_Diary

What?

The Digital Sustainability Diary is a tool designed to help students engage with and reflect on the UN's sustainability goals. It allows students to journal about their daily actions and thoughts related to sustainability, helping them explore how their activities align with the sustainability development goals and consider ways to contribute to a more sustainable world. This project was done in collaboration with Christopher, Ola and Jørgen

Why?

The diary was primary built as a learning tool for sustainability. To raise awareness and help reflective learning. As sustainability is a highly relevant goal we aim to contribute to, the page is also built sustainable with conscious choices in terms of image usage.

How?

The diary fosters a supportive learning environment through teacher-student interaction. Students can choose to share their reflections with teachers, who provide feedback and guidance, enhancing learning without the pressure of grading

How?

Additionally, the diary empowers students by giving them control over their entries, allowing them to keep reflections private or share them, fostering a sense of autonomy and ownership.