Oi

The vision of the Samaritan's Oi app was a platform to give youth to be a voice against domestic violence. In addition to providing resources for victims, the app aimed to educate its audience about the true nature of domestic violence in Australia via a short survey. After answering each questions, users would be shown the correct answer and given a breakdown of all other users' responses to give them an insight into the current public awareness of domestic violence.

One major feature of the app was allowing users to see the anonymous responses of other users after answering a question, to be able to better visualise the opinions of the general population. We therefore developed a REST API to share these anonymous responses between devices.

• Frontend: Vue.js / Cordova
• Backend: Loopback / Node.js

One of the best parts of developing this app was the background animation on the dashboard. An almost inconsequential part of the app, the gentle snow-like animation represented the number of total and active users of the app. Making the drops look random and "natural" was a challenge, and multiple trips to our animators and Stack Overflow were required.