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        <p>As part of the 2016 Co-design Studio at MIT, my team worked on a collaborative design project with the Vida Verde Brazilian Women's Housecleaning Cooperative to design technology to benefit the business and the women who run it.</p>

        <p>After a series of interviews with the cleaners and their clients, we developed a series of improvements, including some lower-tech, cheaper solutions, like a shared Google Drive, and a cost calculator widget for their website to enable clients to get an estimate instantaneously. Shown here is a messaging app that went through multiple stages of user testing and was popular among the worker-owners, but ultimately was too costly to produce. The app instantly translates text messages between Portuguese and English, and gives details on clients' addresses, homes, and cleaning schedules. </p>
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        <h4>Date</h4>
        <p><span>Spring 2016</span></p>
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        <p><span>Vida Verde Women's Cooperative, Val Healy, Tais Delazari, Emilie Reiser, Rachel Goor</span></p>
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        <p><span>Codesign, User Research, User Experience Design, Interaction Design</span></p>
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