PacePerfect

Overview

People with disabilities experience lower employment than their non-disabled peers. For those who are employed, ongoing barriers often impact their career growth and limit equitable workplace experiences.

Disability Employment Research & Designathon was an Amazon internal event that focused on working backwards from Amazon employees with disabilities to co-create the solution that improves employment opportunities. The project took a "working backwards" approach, directly involving employees with disabilities to identify and address barriers to workplace success.

Challenge & Solution

Key challenges included the fast-paced nature of the five-day designathon, which required rapid ideation, research, and testing, all while ensuring the solution was both practical and impactful.

The result was PacePerfect, a desktop application developed to help neurodivergent employees process information more effectively during meetings and training sessions. PacePerfect was created to empower employees to focus on what’s important without the cognitive overload.

timeframe

Five days

my role

UX design, User research