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© 2025 SafeSpace. Built with purpose by BCIT D3 students.
Creating a more inclusive future for the trades.
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saferspace.2025@gmail.com
Creative Design & More
Emmalee Dhaliwal
Posted on September 12, 2025
Creative Design
The creative team hit a big milestone: we finalized our style guide!!!
That might sound simple, but for us, it’s huge. This guide sets the tone for how SafeSpace feels: warm, empowering, and trustworthy, while still grounded in the strength and pride of the trades industry. We focused on rounded shapes and soft gradients that express warmth and inclusivity, balanced with professional, geometric typefaces that mirror our brand vision.
SafeSpace’s design language is about empowerment through support and safety.
UX/ Research
Our User Research Report and User Personas are complete and handed in!
This is a major step in grounding our design decisions in real stories. Through surveys, interviews, and additional research, we uncovered common experiences among women and gender-diverse tradespeople: the need for belonging and the reality of facing harassment on worksites.
Now, it’s time to translate those insights into structure. We’ve started work on site maps and user journeys, mapping out how someone might move through the app. This stage is about clarity and making sure the app is easy to navigate. Every screen, every button, every path through the app is being built with empathy at the center.
Our Struggles
To be honest, this week has been tough. Reworking our app features and balancing seven other intensive courses alongside SafeSpace has been a challenge. The timelines are tight, the workload is heavy, and we’ve been spending more and more time at BCIT… staying late and coming in on the weekends is ROUGH and should be banned.
Burnout is real. We’ve felt it creeping in between group meetings and submissions. There’s always that push and pull between wanting to deliver our best work but also wanting to keep ourselves healthy; both physically and mentally. I know at least I’ve been wondering how can I keep myself healthy while juggling so many assignments at once
Moving Forward...
Next, we’re shifting our focus toward refining SafeSpace’s value proposition by clearly defining what “support” means in our context.
We’re also working on designing low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the app’s new direction. This stage is where everything will start to come together as our app’s vision grows more tangible. We’ll continue refining our site maps and user journeys, ensuring that every feature and flow reflects our purpose: making the trades a safer, more inclusive space for everyone who works hard to build our world.
In short, we are locking in. We’re a little stressed and scared, but we have each other. And together, we will continue to create and evolve SafeSpace.
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Try now
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© 2025 SafeSpace. Built with purpose by BCIT D3 students.
Creating a more inclusive future for the trades.
Contact us
📍 Vancouver, BC
saferspace.2025@gmail.com
Creative Design & More
Emmalee Dhaliwal
Posted on September 12, 2025
Creative Design
The creative team hit a big milestone: we finalized our style guide!!!
That might sound simple, but for us, it’s huge. This guide sets the tone for how SafeSpace feels: warm, empowering, and trustworthy, while still grounded in the strength and pride of the trades industry. We focused on rounded shapes and soft gradients that express warmth and inclusivity, balanced with professional, geometric typefaces that mirror our brand vision.
SafeSpace’s design language is about empowerment through support and safety.
UX/ Research
Our User Research Report and User Personas are complete and handed in!
This is a major step in grounding our design decisions in real stories. Through surveys, interviews, and additional research, we uncovered common experiences among women and gender-diverse tradespeople: the need for belonging and the reality of facing harassment on worksites.
Now, it’s time to translate those insights into structure. We’ve started work on site maps and user journeys, mapping out how someone might move through the app. This stage is about clarity and making sure the app is easy to navigate. Every screen, every button, every path through the app is being built with empathy at the center.
Our Struggles
To be honest, this week has been tough. Reworking our app features and balancing seven other intensive courses alongside SafeSpace has been a challenge. The timelines are tight, the workload is heavy, and we’ve been spending more and more time at BCIT… staying late and coming in on the weekends is ROUGH and should be banned.
Burnout is real. We’ve felt it creeping in between group meetings and submissions. There’s always that push and pull between wanting to deliver our best work but also wanting to keep ourselves healthy; both physically and mentally. I know at least I’ve been wondering how can I keep myself healthy while juggling so many assignments at once
Moving Forward...
Next, we’re shifting our focus toward refining SafeSpace’s value proposition by clearly defining what “support” means in our context.
We’re also working on designing low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the app’s new direction. This stage is where everything will start to come together as our app’s vision grows more tangible. We’ll continue refining our site maps and user journeys, ensuring that every feature and flow reflects our purpose: making the trades a safer, more inclusive space for everyone who works hard to build our world.
In short, we are locking in. We’re a little stressed and scared, but we have each other. And together, we will continue to create and evolve SafeSpace.
Home
Blog
About
Try now
Creative Design & More
Emmalee Dhaliwal
Posted on September 12, 2025
Creative Design
The creative team hit a big milestone: we finalized our style guide!!!
That might sound simple, but for us, it’s huge. This guide sets the tone for how SafeSpace feels: warm, empowering, and trustworthy, while still grounded in the strength and pride of the trades industry. We focused on rounded shapes and soft gradients that express warmth and inclusivity, balanced with professional, geometric typefaces that mirror our brand vision.
SafeSpace’s design language is about empowerment through support and safety.
UX/ Research
Our User Research Report and User Personas are complete and handed in!
This is a major step in grounding our design decisions in real stories. Through surveys, interviews, and additional research, we uncovered common experiences among women and gender-diverse tradespeople: the need for belonging and the reality of facing harassment on worksites.
Now, it’s time to translate those insights into structure. We’ve started work on site maps and user journeys, mapping out how someone might move through the app. This stage is about clarity and making sure the app is easy to navigate. Every screen, every button, every path through the app is being built with empathy at the center.
Our Struggles
To be honest, this week has been tough. Reworking our app features and balancing seven other intensive courses alongside SafeSpace has been a challenge. The timelines are tight, the workload is heavy, and we’ve been spending more and more time at BCIT… staying late and coming in on the weekends is ROUGH and should be banned.
Burnout is real. We’ve felt it creeping in between group meetings and submissions. There’s always that push and pull between wanting to deliver our best work but also wanting to keep ourselves healthy; both physically and mentally. I know at least I’ve been wondering how can I keep myself healthy while juggling so many assignments at once
Moving Forward...
Next, we’re shifting our focus toward refining SafeSpace’s value proposition by clearly defining what “support” means in our context.
We’re also working on designing low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the app’s new direction. This stage is where everything will start to come together as our app’s vision grows more tangible. We’ll continue refining our site maps and user journeys, ensuring that every feature and flow reflects our purpose: making the trades a safer, more inclusive space for everyone who works hard to build our world.
In short, we are locking in. We’re a little stressed and scared, but we have each other. And together, we will continue to create and evolve SafeSpace.
