Project #5 Anti-Surveillance Tool

Design Process & Reflection: Honest Job Reviews

Sender: Current or Past Employees
Receiver: Future job applicants, job candidates, job seekers

In the light of the unprecedented pandemic, job markets, especially non-tech industries, have been frozen up. A lot of people lost their jobs and recent graduates are suffering from the lack of opportunities. Job seekers are very vulnerable to recuriting scams that can lead to losing money and depriving personal informations. I wanted to build a system that can help job seekers to get accurate information about a company they would apply for.

In order to do so, I tried to come up with an idea that enables current or past employees of a company to freely leave honest reviews without worrying about any kind of disadvantages in their organizations,such as a boss gets to see the reviewer's negative comments, so that they could post it even in nonanonymous seeting like a personal social media feed.

My visual strategy was putting a real message (a genuine review of a company) inside of a random or a dummy QR code that will attached to a social media post. I expected that the general public would be distracted by a QR code pattern and not notice the hidden message.
I used two foor loops to create a QR code pattern, which was the biggest challeng for this week's assignment. I breaked the pattern into 2 parts: squares and particles. I used rect function to create three square patterns on each corner of a pattern and then divided the particle part up into three chuncks as the three red rectangles. Then I used for loops to create 4pts squares that fall in a specified range and randomly assigned color for each little square.