PrismConnect27th October 2025 - 5th December 2025
University Project
Project Overview
PrismConnect was the product designed for the module Human Computer Interaction at the University of Birmingham. The aim was to test our ability to work at a team of five to develop a something to "help people address a problematic behaviour". Through market research including questionnaires, interviews and analysing existing products, we decided on the follwing problem statement:
People struggle to reliably identify and respond to real-time scam attempts as they often make rushed oremotionally charged decisions. As a result they often missthe warning signs of a scam putting themselves at risk oflosing data or money. People who do notice signs oftenonly do so in a reactive way. With increasinglypersonalised AI driven scams emerging, it is becomingharder to distinguish between scams and genuinecommunication.
From this, we went through multiple stages of ideation and refinement to come up with an all-in-one communication app designed to stop scammers and protect the user through authentication and real-time analysis. Using third party research papers, we looked at ways to detect scams including the latest generation of deepfake technology to mitigate and pre-emptively stop scammers.
People struggle to reliably identify and respond to real-time scam attempts as they often make rushed oremotionally charged decisions. As a result they often missthe warning signs of a scam putting themselves at risk oflosing data or money. People who do notice signs oftenonly do so in a reactive way. With increasinglypersonalised AI driven scams emerging, it is becomingharder to distinguish between scams and genuinecommunication.
From this, we went through multiple stages of ideation and refinement to come up with an all-in-one communication app designed to stop scammers and protect the user through authentication and real-time analysis. Using third party research papers, we looked at ways to detect scams including the latest generation of deepfake technology to mitigate and pre-emptively stop scammers.
project type
Product Development
tools
Affinity Studio
Poster
Below is the poster intended to show to stakeholders in order to market them to invest in the product, showing off our prototype favourably while keeping details high-level.
Development
The project itself was intended as an assignment to test our ability to work as a team to work from a single overarching problem, and narrowing down the issue through interviews, questionnaries and market research to create a product - to show evidence of this, we made a presentation to show the full process and present the features of the product in detail: