– A mobile alert app for HRDs

What is Panic Button?

The Scenario

How does the app work?

1. Sends message to your three

contacts in an emergency

2. Sends map link with your location every 5 minutes (when GPS is enabled)

How does the app work?

How does the app work?

3. Triggers the alert rapidly and discretely

from the phone’s power button

How does the app work?

4. App is protected with disguise screen

and pin number

How does the app work?

5. Provides checklist for use and security tips online

The Story

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IDEO Hackathon

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“100 Roses”

Thoughtworks University

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User research and feedback

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V.1

V.2

V.3

Building the product

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Beta roll-out and training

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648 challenge participants

50 Designers

150 Human Rights Defenders

20 Developers

Design Challenges!

Concept of the ‘PACT’

"A reminder for all of us using mobile phones for advocacy, ‘Security is a people problem.’ Even with the panic button, we should always keep this in mind.”

Apps don’t protect people. People do.

Apps don’t protect people. People do.

There is no such thing as absolute security.

Apps don’t protect people. People do.

There is no such thing as absolute security.

Your mobile phone - friend or enemy?

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Where next?

Website: panicbutton.ioEmail: beta@panicbutton.io